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Fake Plastic Trees (Album Version) · Radiohead

EXERCISE 12 OF 26
Join Chorus to Part G (bars 27-29)
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0 / 26 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART G
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEBGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fake Plastic Trees (Album Version) on drums

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 3:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-28, ride through bars 29-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-67.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27 and 43-59 -- 38.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
Fake Plastic Trees (Album Version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 36, 40, 42 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- E, B -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-30 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 39-64 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Fake Plastic Trees (Album Version)?

77 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Fake Plastic Trees (Album Version) hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Fake Plastic Trees (Album Version)?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 36, 40, 42 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED