TEXT: Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz TEXT: Doug McKenzie [email protected] TEXT: A 'semi modal' song. TEXT: The Form is AAB. TEXT: The first 8 bars of the A section lend themselves to a single scale approach (=modal). Several approaches work well: TEXT: * An A phrygian scale. (Over the A chord use the notes of F major scale. For chords to accompany play an A7b9sus4 chord. (A Bb D E G) or perhaps Bb/A or Em7b5/A - or string together a series of diatonic chords from the F major scale. TEXT: * half tone/whole tone diminished scale. For chords over the A chord play any dominant type chords from this scale (E.g A13 or A7#9, or C13 or C7#9 or Eb13 or Eb7#9 or F#13 or F#7b9 - or string together a series of chords from the diminished scale. TEXT: * Over the A chord play D harmonic minor - beginning on A (A Bb C# D E F G A) - Accompany with an A7b9 chord or a series of chords from this scale. TEXT: The first four bars of the B section are E phrygian. - similar scale options to the above - transposed of course. TEXT: The next 4 bars of the B section are D phrygian. - similar scale options to the above - transposed of course. MARKER: First 8 bars on A7 using the Diminished(Whole/half tone) scale MARKER: LH plays chords from A dim scale C7#9 (=F#13), Eb7 #9 (= A13), F#7 #9 (=C13) A7 #9 (=Eb13) MARKER: C13 MARKER: Descending D harmonic minor scale MARKER: Ascending A 7 dim scale (Whole/half tone) MARKER: Pattern made from same Dim scale MARKER: Dim scale pattern MARKER: Descending Phygian scale (= F major scale) on A7 chord MARKER: Pattern made from diatonic triads from within the F major scale MARKER: E phrygian (= Cmaj scale) on E7susb9 MARKER: Just uses Thumb and index finger to play up white notes MARKER: D phrygian (= BbMajor scale) over D7sus b9 MARKER: Arpeggiated 3note 13th chords from within the A7 dim scale MARKER: Ascending dim scale again MARKER: Figure based on Bb triad arpegio with upper diatonic neighbours MARKER: Another figure using notes from the A7 dim scale - the pattern descends in minor thirds MARKER: Line based on F triad notes (C, A, F) with lower neighbours MARKER: On E7sus b9, series of chords from E7 dim scale MARKER: G/Ab MARKER: Bb/Cb MARKER: Db/D MARKER: E/F MARKER: Series of chords that have F as a common tone MARKER: Bm7b5 MARKER: Bbm7 MARKER: Am7 #5 MARKER: Ab13 MARKER: Gm7 MARKER: Gb Maj7 add6 MARKER: F Maj7
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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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