Dave Brubeck - Take Five - Free Sheet Music Riff
Sample : Our friends at sheetmusicplus have a sample of the first page of Take 5 for you to peruse free of charge.
Dave Brubeck's classic, Take 5 uses only two chords throughout, for both the main melody and
the subsequent improvisations. It's in a minor key (we've chosen F here, but the original the more challenging Eb) and
the whole piece rocks back and forth between chords I and V of the scale - F and C, only
instead of the traditional major chord on the fifth, we have instead a minor 7th.
So the resulting pattern is F minor - Cminor7
The next step of course is to add the famous five-in-a-bar pattern, giving three beats to F minor and two to C minor.
Melody and improvisation
The main tune (and most of the improvisation that follows) uses a traditional blues scale - here it is in F.
And the same transposed for the alto saxophone, in the key of D :
The key to making a convincing Take 5 sound is to move around the notes of the blues scale using the
dotted rhythm found in the accompaniment. I've notated a short extract, the midi file has a longer example.
And the same again, with the transposition for alto saxophone
Obviously that's only a start on the kind of improvisations you can get up to, but it's probably enough to get you hooked on that Take 5 vibe!
Get a copy of the original by clicking the link below:
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Dave Brubeck Quartet: Take Five Performed by Dave Brubeck Quartet, composed by Paul Desmond, arranged by Gary Keller. For alto saxophone solo and piano accompaniment. Format: set of performance parts (Includes separate pull-out alto sax part). With chord names and solo part. Jazz. Eb Minor. 7 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Warner Brothers. (WB.0158TASX)
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| Dave Brubeck Quartet: Take Five Performed by Dave Brubeck Quartet, composed by Paul Desmond, arranged by Gary Keller. For alto saxophone solo and piano accompaniment. Format: set of performance parts (Includes separate pull-out alto sax part). With chord names and solo part. Jazz. Eb Minor. 7 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Warner Brothers. (WB.0158TASX)
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Chords Used in Dave Brubeck - Take Five
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| Dave Brubeck Quartet: Take Five Performed by Dave Brubeck Quartet, composed by Paul Desmond, arranged by Gary Keller. For alto saxophone solo and piano accompaniment. Format: set of performance parts (Includes separate pull-out alto sax part). With chord names and solo part. Jazz. Eb Minor. 7 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Warner Brothers. (WB.0158TASX)
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Dave Brubeck Sheet Music to Purchase
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Dave Brubeck Quartet: Take Five Performed by Dave Brubeck Quartet, composed by Paul Desmond, arranged by Gary Keller. For alto saxophone solo and piano accompaniment. Format: set of performance parts (Includes separate pull-out alto sax part). With chord names and solo part. Jazz. Eb Minor. 7 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Warner Brothers. (WB.0158TASX)
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Classic Jazz Standards For voice, piano and guitar chords. Format: piano/vocal/chords songbook. With vocal melody, piano accompaniment, lyrics, chord names and guitar chord diagrams. Jazz and standards. 208 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Hal Leonard. (HL.310310)
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Complete Jazz Music Collection For voice, piano and guitar chords. Format: piano/vocal/chords songbook. With vocal melody, piano accompaniment, lyrics and chord names. Jazz, standards and vocal standards. 260 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Warner Brothers. (WB.F3336SMC)
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Cool Jazz Piano Solo Mixed Folio (Intermediate to advanced piano arrangements with no lyrics). Size 9x12 inches. 72 pages. Published by Hal Leonard. (310710)
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