TEXT: Jerome Kern TEXT: First chorus based on some harmonic ideas as played by Richie Beirach on his Maybeck Hall album. MARKER: On E/Gb Lh plays Gb and R Hand plays E triad arpeggios MARKER: Gb lydian (i.e Db Major scale) on Fm7/Gb MARKER: First chorus - out of tempo - starts here MARKER: Bass descends chromatically over next 4 bars. MARKER: Chord choice is more or less governed by the melody note at that point. MARKER: Next four bars Root moves down in steps agin. MARKER: Root again descends chromatically from Db MARKER: Bridge - another descending chromatic root movement for the next 7 bars MARKER: Last 10 bars uses the usual chords MARKER: Return to Intro to finish 1st chorus MARKER: Bass and Drums in tempo MARKER: Bass and piano play contrapuntally MARKER: Piano Rh and LH in unison an Octave apart MARKER: RH and LH a tenth apart MARKER: Back to RH and LH an octave apart MARKER: On new chorus, chord stabs with LH over single note RH line MARKER: Bass plays more, but still doesn't walk in 4 MARKER: Whole Tone scale based figure over C7alt (=C7+) MARKER: On final chorus, piano plays more 'chordally', bass walks MARKER: Another Whole Tone figure spills over into the next bar briefly MARKER: Back to the Intro figure - and fade
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Instructions
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.
Read more about the former Kuhmann Directory (Disklavier World).