|
|
Post by theevan on Feb 3, 2024 7:20:10 GMT -5
Wow!
|
|
|
|
Post by theevan on Feb 3, 2024 7:22:25 GMT -5
Never heard of him before.  |
|
|
|
Post by Hobson on Feb 3, 2024 12:42:29 GMT -5
I second the wow! I have sheet music for Take Five. Probably needless to say that I've never learned it. At least not anywhere near up to speed and not smoothly. Unless a miracle occurs, it will forever be beyond my capability on guitar.
|
|
|
|
Post by Russell Letson on Feb 3, 2024 12:53:29 GMT -5
"Take Five" was one of the jazz standards that my late playing partner Dan had arranged--but for guitar and bass*, which makes the job a lot more manageable. And I don't think I've ever heard a guitar arrangement that even refers to Joe Morello's drum solo. Shades of Tommy Emmanuel.
* Dan also arranged "All Blues" and "Well You Needn't" and often played them with our trumpeter friend and frequent bandmate. I learned a rhythm accompaniment for "All Blues" that I can almost still remember.
|
|
|
|
Post by RickW on Feb 4, 2024 13:15:11 GMT -5
That's one of those arrangements I look at and think, that would take me about five years just to memorize the damned thing. Parts look like every finger is moving in a different direction all at the same time.  |
|
|
|
Post by John B on Feb 4, 2024 15:14:39 GMT -5
That's a great arrangement.
|
|
Dub
Administrator
I'm gettin' so the past is the only thing I can remember.
Posts: 19,863 
|
Post by Dub on Feb 4, 2024 15:25:43 GMT -5
This is wonderful. Not something I’ll ever be able to do but wonderfully inspiring in any case.
My late brother, Paul, and I were given Brubeck’s album Time Out as a Christmas present in our teens. Paul played piano and could pick this stuff up by ear from the recording. I can’t remember whether he played Take Five or not but I remember him playing Blue Rondo a la Turk often.
I love this stuff.
|
|
|
|
Post by millring on Feb 11, 2024 7:09:28 GMT -5
I've come back to the original video several times. It's become a real favorite. One thing (among many) that it does is keep the same drive the original recording had (as evidenced by the drum solo).
Compare it to this interesting take that does some really interesting things to move the harmonies around, but is just slightly and jarringly off rhythm.
|
|
|
|
Post by millring on Feb 11, 2024 7:57:47 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by John B on Feb 11, 2024 10:18:08 GMT -5
I've come back to the original video several times. It's become a real favorite. One thing (among many) that it does is keep the same drive the original recording had (as evidenced by the drum solo). Compare it to this interesting take that does some really interesting things to move the harmonies around, but is just slightly and jarringly off rhythm. It's still in 5/4, but for some reason it doesn't feel like it is. Maybe part of it is that he's playing with so much sustain on the melody? The original (and the first cover here) are so much more percussive, and the driving rhythm is lost. Or maybe the original is a more syncopated 1-2- 3 1- 2-3 1-2 1-2, and this version is "straighter?" |
|
|
|
Post by Russell Letson on Feb 11, 2024 11:18:16 GMT -5
Yep--the phrasing is pretty square, just about zero swing. He almost gets it around 2:08 and again around 2:40, but it tends to fall back into a rather precise-but-stiff feel. The notes are all there, but not quite in the right places.
|
|
