Chords for How to Play "Semi-Charmed Life" by Third Eye Blind on Guitar

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What's up guys?
It's Thomas from the Band Radius and we are doing _ _ SimiCharm Live Third
Eye Blind, taking it back to 7th grade.
Man, stay strong.
Super easy, just chords G, _
[D] D,
_ [C] and C. _ _ _
_ And there's two different ways to play the C chord.
Lead singer, he plays it this
way.
Second guitarist, Mr.
Tony, plays it this way.
This is a C add 9 technically, or
I call it the cheap C because it looks just like the G, but we just move these fingers
on down.
Super easy.
[G] So, _ this is G.
Let's recap, it's 3rd fret, 2nd fret, open, open,
3rd fret, 3rd fret.
_ [D] The D is open D string, 2nd fret, 3rd fret, 2nd fret.
And then I'm
going to play a pinky, [Gm] which is [D] going to be _ D, open, 2nd fret, 3rd [Gm] fret, 3rd fret.
And then I'm going to keep these fingers here, [C] _ and then I'm almost going to do a G, but I'm
going to come up here and do 3rd fret on the A string, 2nd fret of the D [G] string, open G
string, 3rd fret, 3rd fret.
And that is our C add 9.
So, for C, sometimes you'll see me
do [C] this or this, doesn't matter, whatever [G] one's comfortable.
This one's probably a little
easier so you can transition to the G right away.
[Am] Okay, so here we go, here's the riff.
1, 2, [G] 3, 4.
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ And the main thing is the strumming on this, so we're going to do like 5 times on this
G, _ and we're going to end on a downstroke.
_ _ _ And then we're going to wait a downstroke
and then do the D.
And we're going to do the D 6 [D] times.
_ _ _ And on the 6th time I'm going
to add my pinky, it's going to be an upstroke. _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ Okay, so let's put that together. _
_ _ [D] Wait, _ _ _ [G]
and
_ go into the C chord, we're going to wait a downstroke again, and that's just like a little
pulse to go to the C chord.
And we're going to play the C.
1, 2, 3, 4.
[C] 1, 2, 3, 4.
1, 2.
So we're going to do it 4 times, then 4 times, and then 2 times. _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] Okay,
so let's put that together very slow for you guys.
_ _ [D] Wait, _ _
[C] wait, _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ okay?
So let's do that one
more time. _ _
[D] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ And that is the main part of this song, and it is the verse, it's also the pre-chorus,
and it's also the chorus.
So when we go into the second pre-chorus, there's going to be
a few [D] different chords.
And we're just going, it's actually the same chords, just different
sequence.
So we're going to D, which is this, open 2, 3, 2.
_ _ _ _ [C] And then C, _ _ _ which is 3, 2, open
1, open.
So _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ that _ is the [G] pre-chorus of the second one.
So let's kind of put this all together.
Start from the beginning.
1, 2, 3, 4.
_ [D] _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [C] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [C] _ _
[G] And then let's just take it to the chorus.
_ [D] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [D] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[C] And we're going to stop on that C.
Okay?
And then I'll take it to that [D] pre-chorus.
_ _ _ [C] _ _
[D] It's just D and C.
That's the only other part of the song that's a little different, but
basically it's G, D, and C.
Okay?
And then later on he's like,
_ _ [C] _ _
and he's doing like chord note triplets on the C.
[D] It's just the D.
_ [G] _ [C] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ [A] _ And the [C] ending is C, _ third fret, second [G] fret, open G.
Then we're just going down to second
fret, [Bm] open, open.
_ _ _ [A] Then open A, [E] second fret, second fret.
So let's [C] put that together. _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ And that is [G] the basis of the song.
Just three chords, G, C, and D.
And basically you can
play lots of songs using those chords.
So can you see those chord [D] changes?
_ [C] _ _ _
_ [G] And it's
really just a strumming game.
Work on your strumming on this.
_ _ [D] Wait, _ [C] wait, wait, [G] wait.
_ And it's just great practice.
Okay?
So anyway, that's it guys.
Super [B] easy.
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