Semi-Charmed Life · Third Eye Blind

113 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-8, 22-27 and 30-32, and 7 more places -- 30.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
SEMI-CHARMED LIFE · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 9, 21, 28, 33, 41 and 26 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 11 sections: 66 keep time, 32 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-20.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART O
CHORUS 4
PART Y
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBEABOR+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Semi-Charmed Life?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Semi-Charmed Life hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Semi-Charmed Life?

16 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 9, 21, 28, 33, 41 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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