Take Five or Four - Take Five played in 4/4 - The Rehearsal - Part I

Music Paul Desmond 1959
arranged by Lenko Draganov 2018
Camera Dimitar Atanasov
Video Editing Rumen Mitev

[monsterfukk]

Somehow this feels more complicated than 5/4. I love it.

[metromancer]

The bass sounds like a minecraft note block

[felixLucretius]

I wasn't aware Harrison Ford plays guitar!

[awsmunicorn]

Excellent arrangement guys. You surprised me a few times throughout the number. I loved when the harmony went down a fourth; when it came back home it felt like when a teris piece fits perfectly.

[jazzfunkfusionclub]

Great, great, great...I can listen to your arrangement over and over again!

[annajazz]

Cool and funky! Awesome interpretation!

[edwardbagdasarian]

Excellent. Well Done Guys. Keep Going !

[mattymcp]

If Santana and Take Five had a child with a red saxophone!

[kingaglyk]

Wow, That's some funky Jazz.."Cool." I enjoyed it
!

[DimiLeventis]

_Carlos Santana has entered the chat room_

[Professzore]

Nice interpretation and scoring, great play... Meanwhile, I still prefer 5/4th.

[thetruthexperiment]

Will someone please explain why people play this in 4? “The Russians are coming” etc. I can’t find an explanation for it. Obviously it sounds cool as a reggae thing. But I just wish someone would explain what the purpose of dumbing the song down is. It’s such an iconic song that almost any decent musician can play it in 5 no problem because everyone has it in their brains. I can see why you’d want to translate it into a ska thing because it’s pretty groovy but I can’t find an explanation anywhere. I can understand the challenge of doing it in 7 or 9 or 13. But doing it in Four (unless to translate it into a hip Jamaican thing) I don’t get it and I want an explanation! Why choose to do it? The whole point of the Take Five album was to showcase odd meter. So, why? Tell me why? I’ve been looking all over the internet for a reason. The reggae version “the Russians are coming” is just low down cool, but I still want to know why they did it, and especially I want to know why this version was recorded or even attempted. Listening to it I didn’t even hear the solo. Maybe it just slipped past me but I’m pretty sure the sax solo was not in this. Someone please tell me why. I’m not trying to criticize, I just want to know why anyone would take a rare 5/4 pop song and dumb it down to 4. I want to know why the reggae version happened as well but it sounds cool enough so I can draw my own conclusions on that but the song is called TAKE FIVE! Unless you’re transforming it into a different style of music like reggae, I don’t see why, and I still want to know why Val Bennet did it. But In all of the internet I can’t find the story behind it. I mean, besides the saxophone part, I can play all the parts of take five. I just happened to have my saxophone stolen just as was figuring it out. But I’m not a terribly great musician but I can play the drums and the bass line and piano part with little effort, what is the draw, why bother doing it in 4? Someone tell me. Please.

[bobmarino]

Much better arranged than Dave Brubeck...

[danlegolas]

at least the guitar solo is a fycking fake... :)))