Take Five and we all know that would be, 5/4 count. Something different while taping your foot.

[juxtaposed]

Dave Brubeck Live Take Five. This is why I could not get a date when I was 14 years old not many ppl. listened to jazz when I was a kid. Things did get better many years later though.

[NewDayOranges]

1. Great song...

This is my favorite version of Take 5...

[Kind of Blue]

8. Yes! But I gotta see him live for the full experience.

[Lint Head]

2. I play this often as a musician and count it as

123 ~ 12, 123 ~ 12, or 123 ~ 45, 123 -~ 45

I know it's written as 5 beats per bar, but breaking it down and simplifying it translates to my toes from my addled brain more easily.

We used to use it as a break song. Saying something like, "We need to take a pause for the cause."

[fierywoman]

3. Classical musician avante-guardist's way of counting 5s:

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"Dal-la-pic-co-la, Dal-la-pic-co-la ..."

Do you know Milcho Leviev's Blue Rondo? (Sorry, there's no take 5 recordings out there.)

[Iggo]

4. I count that one as "and-one-two-three-four-and-one-two-three-four"...etc.

Probably due to the sense that they're dragging their feet on the ass-end of the four, making the five feel like a pickup note every time.

That's how I hear it, anyway.

[fierywoman]

5. Here's a wild rhythm:

[Iggo]

6. I had to look it up.

https://www.reddit.com/r/musictheory/comments/2kccu3/how_do_you_count_the_time_signature_in_this_song/

...and...

https://imgur.com/3Xvh77K

EDIT: And goddam, there's Carol Kaye again!

[fierywoman]

7. I've never seen it written out -- thank you!

It seems like written out turns. The tune does come from Milcho Leviev though, and I think the arrangement.