TEXT: Victor Young TEXT: [email protected] MARKER: Rubato intro - last 8 bars MARKER: On Fm7, an Eb scale - with accelerando and crescendo - start on 9th - pedal down MARKER: RH plays 4 note chords(inversions of Dm9 melodic phrase) MARKER: while LH plays single melody notes connected chromatically. MARKER: Leave out the 'turnaround - straight to ... MARKER: In tempo to start of song. Basically a modern 'stride' style with lots of variation. MARKER: Block chord thing again - easy as the melody is all chord tones of Dm9 MARKER: Turnaround on E7,A7,D7,G7 MARKER: On each chord play notes 1235 - then the same on its tritone equivalent. MARKER: i.e.E7,Bb7,Eb7,A7,Ab7,D7,Db7,G7 MARKER: Am11 voicing LH b3,4,5 and RH G triad MARKER: Same voicing moves with melody down a tone to Gm11 MARKER: Drop2 block chordson Dm7 MARKER: On chord tones Dm chords, on non chords tones build a diminished chord MARKER: For 'drop 2' LH plays 2nd top note down an octave MARKER: On G7alt, whole tone drop 2 voicings. RH plays augmented triad MARKER: LH plays note from Whole tone scale a tone below the top RH note MARKER: Whole thing moves up in whole tone steps MARKER: Same idea as above - chords in cycle of 5ths. MARKER: Melodic phrase transposed either down a tone or by a tritone MARKER: Another sequenced phrase passed around the cycle MARKER: Deliberate discords on each chord change in this turnaround MARKER: Bb69 B69 C69 MARKER: On Em7b5 A7, a dim scale run MARKER: Another whole tone block chord thing - the melody moves in whole tones on this G7alt chord MARKER: Chords move diatonically here - CMaj7, Dm7 (Ebdim), Em7,Dm7, Cmaj7 MARKER: RhH and LH in unison arpeggiate the chord up to melody note MARKER: RH vamps simple chords - LH plays melodically MARKER: This time on E7,A7,D7,G7, a melodic phrase over the E7,A7 is played down a WHOLE tone. MARKER: The melody on first 2 1/2 bars is one note. Here the lower neighbors are used. MARKER: Rhythm is changed to triplets MARKER: Pedal tone in LH on the dominant (G) MARKER: More Whole tone stuff MARKER: Glissando from one melody note (G) targets the G octave above MARKER: THis time on repeating melody note (G) - play successive G's up an octave each time. MARKER: Slow stride - deliberately stilted style - pedal NOT used to connect bass note and chord MARKER: RH improvises at extreme treble end of piano. MARKER: Notes in RH are quite clipped MARKER: Same as before - this time short 3 note phrase transposed MARKER: More of the high treble staccato phrases in RH MARKER: This time a pivot phrase (G and its neighbours) MARKER: A different hythmic figure used over these 2 bars MARKER: More of the octave displacement idea on the repeating G melody note
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If you have a Bluetooth-MIDI adapter installed in your Disklavier and are using an app (such as PianoStream), you can stream these MIDI files right from your Apple device to your piano.
Otherwise, you can put them on a USB stick. Files will be playable natively on newer Disklaviers, such as the Mark IV, E3, and ENSPIRE. You can see my Disklavier compatibility table to see which instruments support USB.
For older generations of Disklavier using floppy disks or Nalbantov USB emulators, see my article on converting MIDI files to E-SEQ and creating PIANODIR.FIL.
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