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Easy Fingerpicking
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Unlock the flowing rhythm of Coldplay's "Clocks" with one simple pattern
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A New Chord
You now have all the chords under your belt to play the verses and choruses of “Clocks,” but when you reach the bridge section, you’ll find an F chord staring you down.
To make it, place your left index finger on the first fret of the second string, your middle finger on the second fret of the third string, and your ring finger on the third fret of the fourth string. (You may have seen this chord with the first finger also playing the first fret of the first string, kind of flattened across the fingerboard to get two notes. If you already play this chord, go ahead and play it, but you don’t really need that top note for the pattern we’re using.) Now you’re ready for Example 12, which applies our fingerpicking pattern to this F chord.
  Example 12
Example 12, Played Slowly
Examples 13 and 14 apply the pattern to the other two chords in the bridge—C and G.
Example 13
Example 13, Played Slowly
Example 14
Example 14, Played Slowly
Here We Go
Now you’re ready for the whole song! You can play through the piece just fine using the pattern you’ve already learned, but you may want to thicken up your chords with some bass notes. These notes spice up our pattern a bit, and to play them you have to use a technique called a pinch. This move requires your thumb to pluck a bass string at the same time as your middle finger plays its note. Try it and you’ll feel the pinching motion that’s required. For the D chord, the thumb picks the fourth string, as in Example 15.
Example 15
Example 15, Played Slowly
For the F chord, the thumb still picks the fourth string, as in Example 16.
Example 16
Example 16, Played Slowly
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