a brainless thinker

theantidote:

Dave Brubeck - Take Five

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Back to the days I started my music learning process, Take Five was a kind of goal for beginners, a piece that should be played to show people you have skills and learned jazz. Took me two to three years to feel comfortable playing Take Five and from then I didn’t miss any opportunity to include it on a set list. After a while I started to listen to it more carefully and as my understanding of music was increasing I simply took it out of my repertoire and I started to get annoyed when people asked me or my band to play Take Five. I completely misplayed and misinterpreted Take five in my early years and I feel ashamed until today because of that. Although as a music score printed on paper it looks pretty straightforward, when one listens over and over to Brubeck and Desmond playing it, it goes into a new musical dimension and that is simply impossible to play it without the feeling that you are spoiling a masterpiece. And that happens with some other songs of the same stature. For my own pleasure and self-servicing ego trip, I still play Take Five sometimes, alone, in my room and sure that no one is around witnessing me perpetrating such crime.