Friday, 9 October 2009


"Take Five"

I wanted to try and encapsulate the feel for the timing of this classic jazz piece by copying Dave Brubeck's take on it. It's in 5/4 time and the actual pattern deviates from this one a fair bit during the song. This is just one bar of the verse pattern, yet hopefully enough to give some idea of this song's feel.










Above is a written transcription of the piece, which I hope will be useful to anybody wishing to learn this. The ghost notes don't come through as ghost notes on the video, as my electric kit is set to trigger that way. As soon as I find a way to sort this, it shall be done!

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