Take Five
The Dave Brubeck Quartet · 1959
Definitive 5/4 jazz feel and a celebrated brush-and-stick solo.
- Artist
- The Dave Brubeck Quartet
- Year
- 1959
- Genre
- jazz
- Drummer
- Joe Morello
- Tempo
- 174 bpm
- Time
- 5/4
- Feel
- jazz swing in 5
- Difficulty
- advanced
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Practice tempos
The feel
A jazz swing in 5 in 5/4 around 174 BPM. It's fast — economy of motion is everything; speed comes from relaxation, not force.
Form
Intro (drums) · Theme · Sax Solo · Drum Solo · Theme · Outro (in 5/4)
What to watch
- •Lock the shuffle triplet; the #1 mistake is letting it straighten out as you speed up.
- •Advanced: isolate the single hardest bar and loop it slowly before ever playing along.
How to learn it
Well-known tutorials exist for this one — use the links below, and play along from your own copy.
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