Semi-Charmed Life · Third Eye Blind

113 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 4:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 10 and 14, and 12 more places -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 107 BPM
SEMI-CHARMED LIFE · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 9, 21, 28, 29, 33 and 28 more.

LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 107 BPM
BARS 28-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 12 sections: 68 keep time, 34 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART O
PART T
PART Q
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDTBOAB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Semi-Charmed Life?

107 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?

58 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 34 times: bars 1, 9, 21, 28, 29, 33 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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