A presentation by Sam Lapp

Take Five is a jazz song made popular by the Dave Brubeck Quartet on their 1959 album Time Out Written by Paul Desmond, the quartets saxophonist

 Unusual and catchy 5/4 time signature Has been covered by many different artists in various styles and genres

 Pianist and leader of the Dave Brubeck Quartet Experimented with odd time signatures Frontrunner of West Coast Cool Jazz Composer of classical and contemporary music as well as jazz

Not interested in music at young age Graduated from the College of the Pacific in 1942 Drafted into WWII, played in band Studied at Mills College under GI Bill Began playing with Paul Desmond Trio Dave Brubeck Trio

Formed in 1951 with Brubeck (piano), Desmond (saxophone), Joe Dodge (drums), and Bob Bates (double bass) replaced Dodge with Joe Morello and Bates with Eugene Wright to form Classic Quartet

1959 hit album featuring Take Five first jazz album to sell 1,000,000 records

the writing process and experience

 Instead of composing a song, I arranged a version of Take Five wrote a middle section Improvised countless times wrote down parts to keep

 4-bar/8-bar phrases Themes and melodies Blues Scale (1 b3, 4, b5, 5, b7, 1)
D Eb F G Ab A C D Dm7: D, F, A, C

7th Chords (1, 3, 5, 7) Syncopation between hands

 Hard to write down long, fast passages Video of improvisation

Entering into Finale Notepad

Sheet music

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