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My goals for this arrangement of Take Five were:
1. To maintain the repeated chord progression of the piano part
throughout each verse and improvisation section, while keeping the
feel of the Take 5 melody as performed by composer/sax player Paul
Desmond. In other guitar arrangements, the 5/4 accompaniment is
incomplete or drops out intermittently, which ruins the song.
2. To maintain the independent rhythm of the bass line from the sax
solo in the chorus.
3. To include an “improvisation” section. Of course a written out
improvisation is not an improvisation! But because of the difficulty of
improvising on top of an accompaniment on fingerstyle guitar, I have
written out this “improvisation” based upon actual improvisations by
Paul Desmond.
While the goals were straightforward, the execution of Take Five is
far from easy. That is why I have provided the high-def videos to help
you learn to play Take Five correctly and accurately. Watching them
will save you hours of frustration and wasted time.
1. To maintain the repeated chord progression of the piano part
throughout each verse and improvisation section, while keeping the
feel of the Take 5 melody as performed by composer/sax player Paul
Desmond. In other guitar arrangements, the 5/4 accompaniment is
incomplete or drops out intermittently, which ruins the song.
2. To maintain the independent rhythm of the bass line from the sax
solo in the chorus.
3. To include an “improvisation” section. Of course a written out
improvisation is not an improvisation! But because of the difficulty of
improvising on top of an accompaniment on fingerstyle guitar, I have
written out this “improvisation” based upon actual improvisations by
Paul Desmond.
While the goals were straightforward, the execution of Take Five is
far from easy. That is why I have provided the high-def videos to help
you learn to play Take Five correctly and accurately. Watching them
will save you hours of frustration and wasted time.
"TAKE FIVE" Douglas Niedt's guitar arrangement of the great jazz standard by Paul Desmond. Made famous by the Dave Brubeck Quartet |