Hello again YouTube, welcome to Get Your Sax Together I'm Pro saxophonist
Jamie Anderson and this week I'm going to teach you how to play take five by
Dave Brubeck.
This is another in my sax Hall of Fame series and there's a card up there
linking to the playlist with all my sax Hall of Fame classics up there. Some
wicked stuff in there go and check it out. Now this is take five by the Dave
Brubeck Quartet featuring the sax player Paul Desmond. Unusually it's in 5/4 which
is why it's called take five. Now I've written it all out for alto and tenor so
go down into the description and get your free pdf which you can download.
Print it off and follow along as we learn take five. Now just before we do
that if you like the content on the channel
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play take five!
First of all let's deal with this structure of take five and
it's A-B-A. You play the first section, you've got a bridge section which is
different and then you play the first section again. Now I'm going to play this
on alto like the original but if you go and get the PDF in the description
I've written it out for alto and tenor and on the screen I'm going to have the
notes and fingerings for alto and tenor. Let's deal with the A section first. Now
the A section has three different phrases, one two three, so here is the
first phrase played nice and slowly...
And here's that first phrase played slightly faster.
Phrases two and three
are small tag on phrases which go on the end of the first phrase, so here is the
ending phrase number two played nice and slowly...
now here's that freeze to that tag ending played slightly faster.
Now here's
phrase 3, that tag ending phrase 3, played slowly...
Now here's phrase three played faster.
What we're going to do to build our A section then is we're gonna play phrase
1, and then ending 2, ending 3, then we're going to play phrase 1 again
but switch them and have ending 3, ending 2. So the whole A section sounds
like this...
Moving on to the bridge section now, the B section, again, this is going to be in
three phrases. We've got one long phrase and two different endings, so here is
phrase one of the bridge played slowly...
I know that's quite a long phrase but let's play that a little bit faster...
Moving on to phrase two in the bridge. This is how it sounds, played slowly... kk
Now here's phrase 2 of the bridge played faster.
And finally, the last piece of
music we have to learn is phrase 3 of the bridge, which is the short ending and
it sounds like this played slowly...
Now here's that third phrase of the bridge
played faster.
To jigsaw the pieces of the bridge together we're going to play
phrase 1 and then phrase 2, then we're going to play phrase 1 again and we're
gonna finish with phrase 3. So the whole bridge sounds like this...
And that's it, that's all the material we have now to play the whole melody, so we're going to
play the A section, B section, A section, and when we string it all together it sounds like this...
So that's the whole melody. Now, just a quick note about phrasing. It's really
important to listen to the way Paul Desmond plays it to get that really nice
phrasing - the short notes, the slightly ghosted notes they're called when you
don't play the note a full volume, so if you want to learn how to transcribe
things really accurately, up there is a card linked to my transcription series
and that's really going to help you to learn to listen to things and transcribe
them yourself and copy the phrasing. That's really gonna bring your playing
forward.
That's it for this week, hope you enjoyed the video learning how to play
take five - absolutely sax classic. So remember down in the
description you get the PDF. I've got the music written out for alto and tenor.
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See you later!
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