TEXT: Doug McKenzie TEXT: First I played a chorus on one track/midi channel in an 'accompaniment' style - then I improvised over this on another track/midi channel . Did another chorus but reversed the roles of each. Then another chorus. Keep tracks on separate midi channels or p MARKER: Ask Me Now by Thelonious Monk MARKER: On track 2, a useful 'fill' on a Major chord - chromatic scale in triplets 2 hands a sixth apart after each bar you are back on key on the downbeat of the next MARKER: Roles reversed - Rhodes takes solo - while acoustic plays accompaniment MARKER: Back to acoustic piano playing head while Rhodes plays accomapniment MARKER: Whole tone scale figure on B7 MARKER: Same figure on Bb7 but transposed and notes from the other Whole tone scale MARKER: C/Db Bass chord with a diminished scale (Whole-half-whole-half etc.) beginning on C MARKER: Resolves to DbMaj7#11
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Please note that this player is in Beta, and that it often does not play Yamaha XG format files correctly.
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).