Level: 4
Tuning: Standard

"Take Five" is a jazz piece composed by Paul Desmond and performed by The Dave Brubeck Quartet on their 1959 album Time Out. Two years after the album was released it became an unlikely hit and the biggest-selling jazz single ever. Written in the key of E-flat minor, it is known for its distinctive two-chord piano vamp; catchy blues-scale saxophone melody; inventive, jolting drum solo and use of the unusual quintuple (5/4) time, from which its name is derived. Chet Atkins recorded a popular fingerstyle version but Martin takes the composition to new heights. Martin's arrangement is played in the key of G.