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Learn the Secrets of the Take Five Drum Solo with this Free PDF



Take Five is a Paul Desmond composition in 5/4, one of the most defiant time-signatures in all music, for performer and listener alike. Conscious of how easy the listener can lose their way in a quintuple rhythm, Dave Brubeck plays a constant vamp figure throughout, maintaining it even under Joe Morello's drum solo. It is interesting to notice how Joe Morello gradually releases himself from the rigidity of the 5/4 pulse, creating intricate and often startling counter-patterns over the piano figure. And contrary to any normal expectation - perhaps even the composer's! - Take Five really swings.


Everybody's Jumpin' opens without any precise feeling of key, but with a vague impression of 6/4 time, and a strong beat. Joe Morello's brief drum solo shows again what a superb colourist he is on the canvas of percussion tone.




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I worried that it might be gauche to include my own ensemble's recordings in this Audio Companion. In the interest of full disclosure, I was given a stipend of $600 to curate this Companion. $100 each went to Star, Davia, JKLM, and Ygslrhstfut, and $40 each went to Zach, Ava, Sharmi, Raven and Morgan. I thought a lot about simply including works by those five composers that I didn't perform on, but I thought that, effectively, publishing one's work for $40 is more or less the same as giving it away for free. I felt (and Travis, the other half The Living Earth Show, agreed) that if I was going to ask these composers to have their work published with only $40 of compensation, it was only fair for me as a performer and recording artist to have some skin in the game as well and share in the lack of royalties from these works' publication. This is certainly not meant as a slight to this journal (exposure here is certainly an honor!), only a window into my own thought process around the monetization of musical labor. If you're feeling so inclined, please explore and purchase works from these artists' catalogs on their websites! [End Page 120] 2ff7e9595c


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