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Fake Plastic Trees · Radiohead

EXERCISE 15 OF 22
Groove H -- Outro
36 / 67 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fake Plastic Trees on drums

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.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-21, silence through bars 22-28, hi-hat through bars 29-43, silence through bars 44-52 and ride through bars 53-67.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-xxx-x-x-xg|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Fake Plastic Trees -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-43 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED