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Semi-Charmed Life · Third Eye Blind

EXERCISE 24 OF 64
Fill at bar 52
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0 / 64 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Semi-Charmed Life on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
65/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-21, ride through bars 22-33, hi-hat through bars 34-45 and ride through bars 46-53, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---------------|----------------|
RD |--g-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x----x--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 32 times: bars 1, 9, 21, 28, 33, 41 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part O and the Chorus 4 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and the Chorus 4 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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