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Take 5 · Dave Brubeck

Take 5 · Dave Brubeck
EXERCISE 14 OF 30
Groove M -- Part M (a two-bar phrase)
111 / 183 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
CHORUS
PART D
PART M
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
9 groovesAS10DAEK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Take 5 on drums

183 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 170 BPM, 5:23 of playing on ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
41/100

ride through bars 1-93, toms through bars 94-100, snare through bars 101-105, toms through bars 106-110, snare through bars 111-113 and ride through bars 114-137, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-70 and 114-129 -- 58.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a
RD |x---x--xx---x--xx---|
SD |-------x----x------x|
BD |x-------------------|
Take 5 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- A, D -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 75-95 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 94-103 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 103-133 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Take 5?

170 BPM, in 5/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Take 5 hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED