Take Five | E♭ Sheet Music
Jazz Lead Sheet Transposed for E♭ — alto sax, baritone sax
Lyrics
1959 - Paul Desmond
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Read it in your key: Concert (C) (piano, guitar, voice) B♭ (trumpet, tenor sax, clarinet) E♭ (alto sax, baritone sax) Bass clef (trombone, bass, cello)
About this Take Five lead sheet
This is the jazz lead sheet for Take Five, written by Paul Desmond in 1959, transposed for E♭ instruments — alto sax, baritone sax. The melody and the chord symbols are written a major sixth above concert pitch, so what you read matches what the rhythm section plays. The chart is written in C minor (concert Eb minor), in 5/4 time. Read it here for free and play it back — the band keeps sounding in concert pitch while you read your part. Need another key? Switch the Transpose preset above.
- Composer
- Paul Desmond
- Year
- 1959
- Key
- C minor (written) · Eb minor (concert)
- Edition
- E♭ transposed — alto sax, baritone sax
- Time signature
- 5/4
- Style
- Medium Swing
- Tempo
- 172 BPM
- Genre
- Jazz, Cool jazz
- Format
- Lead sheet — melody and chord symbols
Take Five chord changes
The chord progression of Take Five transposed for E♭ instruments (alto sax, baritone sax), written in C minor — concert Eb minor — 24 bars, four to a line. These are the changes as a alto sax player reads them; the rhythm section sees the concert chart.
| Cm Gm7 | Cm Gm7 | Cm Gm7 | Cm Gm7 | | Cm Gm7 | Cm Gm7 | Cm Gm7 | Cm Gm7 | | A♭maj7 Fm6 | Gm7 Cm7 | Fm7 B♭7 | E♭maj7 | | A♭maj7 Fm6 | Gm7 Cm7 | Fm7 B♭7 | Dm7 Gm7 | | Cm Gm7 | Cm Gm7 | Cm Gm7 | Cm Gm7 | | Cm Gm7 | Cm Gm7 | Cm Gm7 | Cm |
Listen to "Take Five"
Desmond: Take Five / The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Live in Belgium, 1964 — Dave Brubeck
