Fake Plastic Trees · Radiohead

67 bars, 3:37, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-19 and 61, and 2 more places -- 35.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 74 BPM
FAKE PLASTIC TREES · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 36 and 60.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 7 sections: 37 keep time, 5 are fills, 3 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART S3
PART E
PART S5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBES5HS3+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fake Plastic Trees?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Fake Plastic Trees hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 36 and 60.

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