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TAKE FIVE (Dave Brubeck Quartet)
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-- comp. Paul Desmond, 1960 [Dave's alto saxophonist]
-- fingerstyle rhythm guitar "arrangement": tcg
-- 5/4 [think 1, 2, 3, 1, 2] // Key of Am (CM) // Allegro
INTRO:[play 'til sax player finishes his/her beer, feels like playin' "head"]
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Am7 Em9 Em9<g bass>
||---------.----------.------2=====2------|| [3 different voicing-
||---------5----------5------3=====3------|| versions of Am7-Em9 will
||o--------5----------5------4=====4-----o|| be given eventually; feel
||o--------5----------5------------------o|| free to interchange these
||----------------------------------------|| at will. . . .]
||----5----------5-----------0-----3------||
duh DAH duh DAH DAH DAH [rhythmic motif sim thruout-->]
1 & (2) & 3 1 2 [--.-- = staccato]
A PART:
------- [<--repeat]
Am7 Em9 Am7 Em9 Am7 Em9<b> Am7 Em9
||---.---.---------|----.---.---------|----.---.---------|----.---.--------||
||---5---5--3==3---|----5---5--3==3---|----5---5--7==7---|----5---5--3==3--||
||o--5---5--4==4---|----5---5--4==4---|----5---5--7==7---|----5---5--4==4-o||
||o--5---5--4==4---|----5---5--4==4---|----5---5--5==5---|----5---5--4==4-o||
||-----------------|------------------|------------------|-----------------||
||-5---5----0--3---|--5---5----0--3---|--5---5----7--0---|--5---5----0--3--||
B PART:
--------
FM7 Dm6 Em7 Am7 Dm7 G7 CM7 Dm7 Em7
||----.----.-------|----.---.---------|----.---.---------|----.---.--.--.---|
||---10---10----10-|----8---8-----5---|----6---6-----3---|----5---5--6--8---|
||----9----9----10-|----7---7-----5---|----5---5-----4---|----4---4--5--7---|
||---10---10-----9-|----9---9-----5---|----7---7-----3---|----5---5--7--9---|
||-8----8----------|--7---7-----------|--5---5-----------|--3---3-----------|
||----------10==10-|-----------5==5---|-----------3==3---|-----------5--7---|
D.C.[->A part]
FM7 Dm6 Em7 Am7 Dm7 G7 Bm7b5 E7
|----.----.--------|----.---.---------|----.---.---------|----.---.--.--.--||
|---10---10----10--|----8---8-----5---|----6---6-----3---|----6---6--5--5--||
|----9----9----10--|----7---7-----5---|----5---5-----4---|----7---7--7--7--||
|---10---10-----9--|----9---9-----5---|----7---7-----3---|----7---7--6--6--||
|-8----8-----------|--7---7-----------|--5---5-----------|-----------7--7--||
|----------10==10--|-----------5==5---|-----------3==3---|--7---7----------||
Possible SEQUENCE:
I-A*-B*-(A-B-)-"A"[extended/long improv]-A*-B*-I(fade out)...
*=play "head" melody
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| Thomas C. Gannon | tgannon@charlie.usd.edu | U of SoDak (Vermillion) |
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| "--If I decide to practice a / o )=\ slight movement from right |
* to left . . . or from left { /===} to right . . . it's *
| nobody's business but my \ (=o=/ own." (_A_Day_for_Eeyore_) |
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