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But you can get creative, shortening held notes and compressing rhythms, but mostly trying to retain the points of emphasis that exist in the original melody and rhythm/articulation.Ī simple but good guide to this would be to try to retain the placement of beat 1 of each bar after translating. 'Take Five,' though, is written and performed in a 5/4 time signature, as my jazz-fan colleague David Graham mentioned yesterday meaning there are five beats per measure. But for the melody you don't have to leave out any notes at all - the rhythms can be compressed and modified to "economize out" the missing beat.Īgain, not algorithmically putting the entire melody into 5:4 tuplets would be pretty uninspired. I've left out some notes to accomplish this - since a groove effectively is the rhythm, you can't really avoid that. which could easily be made to have a reggae feel. Among the biggest hits were Blue Rondo a la Turk in 9/8 time and Take Five, Brubecks most famous tune, in 5/4 time. The most definitive version Dave gave was in an interview to.
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Dave gave thousands of interviews over his long career and invariably since 1959 he was asked about one the biggest selling jazz albums of all time, Time Out and also the first jazz single to sell a million copies, Take Five. To the specific example of "Take Five", consider the 5/4 rhythm groove: 5 | 1 2 3 4 5 |įor me, I answer the question of "how would I play this groove in 4/4?" with the following: 4 | 1 2 3 4 | The origins of Time Out & Take Five - Dave Brubeck. But as a musician and arranger, there are infinite possibilities to take some material and rework it into a different format. You can't do this algorithmically - or I really mean to say you shouldn't.