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Foster the People

!Level: Beginner-Intermediate

May 2014

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Goats In Trees !Goats in trees is the 9th track from Foster the People’s new album Supermodel. It

is a lovely little acoustic driven tune that turned out to be quite interesting to play

to the record. In this PDF I have provided the original parts as played on the

accompanying video, as well as some simpler chords you can play if you wish.

!I usually pick songs for youtube to meet my own devious motives, be it that I think

it will help a certain element of your technique, show you a fantastic guitarists

approach to using a certain scale or chord progression, or sometimes simply that I

like the song! This time however it was a request from youtube so it meets none of

those criteria and that makes it harder to write a nice fact filled intro for you. I have

to get some facts in so you will have to make do with this little gem:

!The Argan tree, indigenous to Morocco and Algeria,

grows to 10 metres high and lives to 200 years old. It

provides a highly valuable oil used in cosmetics but this

has created an interesting problem. The wealth brought

in from selling the oil is mostly spent by the locals on

Goats which then climb the trees to feast on the tasty

fruit. This in turn stunts the trees growth and in turn kills

off the trees that helped buy the goats in the first place.

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TUNING !Although you can play the whole song with straightforward chords interestingly it

seems the original is in Drop D tuning and uses some quirky shapes. Drop D is

probably the most common alternate tuning you will come across and its really

straightforward: simply detune the thick string a tone to the note D. I’m assuming

most of you are already familiar with it but if not your best bet is to ask someone

for help, watch a tutorial, or use an electronic tuner (recommended).

!!VERSE !The chord progression for the verse is as follows:

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The voicings for the chords are as follows:

Strumming Pattern

!The song is played with a swing feel and an accent on the

‘backbeat’ (beats 2 and 4) the strumming pattern is as follows:

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D

Gsus2 F#mAmGB

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!If you’d rather read it as tab then try this:

Alternate ending:

On the record there is an alternate version of the verse, where the last bar is

replaced with this:

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PRE-CHORUS !Using the same strumming pattern as the verse the chord progression is as

follows:

CHORUS !Using the same strumming pattern as the verse the chord progression is as

follows:

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Em

2

4

D



BRIDGE Using the same strumming pattern as the verse the chord progression is as

follows:

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!!OUTRO Using the same strumming pattern as the verse the chord progression is as

follows:

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BΔ7

A

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ARRANGEMENT The arrangement of the song is as follows:

!Verse x 1

Verse with alternate ending x 1

Verse x 2

Pre chorus x 2

Chorus x 2


Verse x 2


Verse x 1

Pre chorus x 2

Chorus x 3

Bridge x 1

Verse x 3


Outro x 6 (fade out)

A SIMPLER VERSION An easier version of the song can be played in standard tuning by simplifying the

voicings and using open chords wherever possible. Just replace the chords in the

previous sections with these:

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B Am G

You can use this

for the Gsus2 also

D F#m11

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worry

about the

11, this

works on

the F#m

E Em A BΔ7

2 2 2 2

2 2 2

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NEED SOME HELP?

!Not sure about some of the chords, scales or techniques in this lesson?

Please check out my website where there are products and courses to help. I will

be adding more as time allows but if you have any specific requests of topics you

would like me to cover, or any other feedback then get in touch via the contact

page of my website willhayguitar.com or email me at [email protected].

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