Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead

Overview

Key: A major · Chords used: 5 · Sections: 10

Form: Verse → Verse → Tag → Verse ×2 → Tag → Verse ×2 → Tag → Tag

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Rock Corpus RS 200 (de Clercq & Temperley, 2011), analysis by Trevor de Clercq. This page shows that transcription as-is: the analysis below is generated directly from it by code, not written by AI. Consecutive repeats of a chord are shown once, and the piano voicings are our playable arrangement of each chord symbol, not a note-for-note transcription.

Section by section

Verse 1

• A – Dmaj7/F♯ – E – D – A – D
  I – IVmaj⁶₅ – V – IV – I – IV

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Tag 1

• Bm7 – A (×2)
  ii7 – I

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 1.

Tag 2

Same chords as Tag 1.

Verse 5

Same chords as Verse 1.

Verse 6

Same chords as Verse 1.

Tag 3

Same chords as Tag 1.

Tag 4

• Bm7 – A – E – Bm7 – E
  ii7 – I – V – ii7 – V
• A – E – Bm7 (×2)
  I – V – ii7
• D – A
  IV – I

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the Rock Corpus RS 200 (de Clercq & Temperley, 2011), analysis by Trevor de Clercq. Expert by-ear harmonic analysis of the original recording, shown on this page.
• Cross-check: the Rock Corpus RS 200 (de Clercq & Temperley, 2011), analysis by David Temperley. Independent by-ear analysis of the same recording. The two analysts agree on the chord (root and major/minor) for 85% of the song.
• Not verified: the two RS 200 analysts differ in places (see their agreement above).
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.