Take Five · Paul Desmond

179 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 168 BPM, 5:19 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Jazz / Blues150 BPM and up
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
27/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 95% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-23, 25-31 and 33-59, and 3 more places -- 94.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 168 BPM
TAKE FIVE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 68.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

179 bars across 3 sections: 91 keep time, 1 is a fill and 87 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-67.

OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesBS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take Five?

168 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 Five hard to play on drums?

27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Take Five?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 68.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED
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