Any Colour You Like · Pink Floyd

64 bars, 3:36, at 71 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
71 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25 and 27-35 -- 15.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 71 BPM
ANY COLOUR YOU LIKE · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 22 more.

LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 71 BPM
BARS 8-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

64 bars across 5 sections: 29 keep time, 28 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-35.

PART B
PART D
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesVBPDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Any Colour You Like?

71 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Any Colour You Like hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 Any Colour You Like?

10 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 22 more.

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