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Semi-Charmed Life · Third Eye Blind

EXERCISE 1 OF 65
Groove B -- Part B
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CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART O
PART T
PART B
PART Q
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDTBOAB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Semi-Charmed Life on drums

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.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
58/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-61, ride through bars 62-69, hi-hat through bars 70-81, ride through bars 82-89 and hi-hat through bars 90-95, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x----x--x----x|
Semi-Charmed Life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B, E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-26 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part O -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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