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Any Colour You Like · Pink Floyd

EXERCISE 26 OF 39
Join Part B to Outro (bars 24-26)
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0 / 39 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, OUTRO
PART B
PART D
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesVBPDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Any Colour You Like on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
71 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bars 1-26, snare through bars 27-35, toms through bars 36-38 and ride through bars 39-64.

The beat

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.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |------x---------|
SD |----x-----------|
BD |------x---------|
Any Colour You Like -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- P, V -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part B -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-42 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED