How to Play Fake Plastic Trees on Guitar?

Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees can be played in the key of A using the A, D, E chords. For A, To play A, press fret 2 on the D string with finger 2, let low E, A, high E ring open, mute G, B. For D, To play D, press fret 2 on the low E string with finger 2, press fret 2 on the G string with finger 2, press fret 2 on the high E string with finger 2, let A, D ring open, mute B. For E, To play E, press fret 1 on the G string with finger 2, let low E, B, high E ring open, mute A, D. Barre: Use your index finger to press multiple strings on the same fret, keeping your finger flat. You can play Fake Plastic Trees with the ↓-↓↓↑ strumming pattern.

Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees Chords

Chord reference A, D, E

Rhythm tips ↓-↓↓↑

[A]Her green plastic [A]watering [D]can [D]For her fake Chinese [E]rubber [D]plant In the fake [A]plastic [D]earth [A]That she bought from a [A]rubber [D]man [D] In a town full of [E]rubber [D]plans To get [A]rid of [D]itself

It wears her [Bm]out, it wears her [A]out It wears her [Bm]out, it wears her [A]out

[A]She lives with a [A]broken [D]man [D]A cracked polys[E]tyrene [D]man Who just [A]crumbles and [D]burns [A]He used to do [A]sur[D]gery [D]For girls in the [E]eight[D]ies But gravity [A]always [D]wins

And it wears him [Bm]out, it wears him [A]out And it wears him [Bm]out, it [A]wears…

She [A]looks like the [A]real [D]thing [D]She tastes like the [E]real [D]thing My fake [A]plastic [D]love [A]But I can’t help [A]the [D]feeling [D]I could blow through the [E]ceil[D]ing If I just [A]turn [D]and run

And it wears me [Bm]out It wears me [A]out It wears me [Bm]out It [A]wears me out

[Bm]And if I could be who you wanted If I could [A]be who you wanted [E]All the [Bm]time, [E]all the [A]time [Bm]Hmm mm [A]mm [Bm] [A]

Artist Radiohead

Album The Bends

Genres Alternative, Indie, Rock

Year 1995

Key A

Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees can be played in the key of A using the A, D, E chords.

For A, To play A, press fret 2 on the D string with finger 2, let low E, A, high E ring open, mute G, B.
For D, To play D, press fret 2 on the low E string with finger 2, press fret 2 on the G string with finger 2, press fret 2 on the high E string with finger 2, let A, D ring open, mute B.
For E, To play E, press fret 1 on the G string with finger 2, let low E, B, high E ring open, mute A, D.

Barre: Use your index finger to press multiple strings on the same fret, keeping your finger flat.

You can play Fake Plastic Trees with the ↓-↓↓↑ strumming pattern.