TEXT: [email protected]. Version demonstrating use of diminished scales - on the C7alt chord in the 'A' section, and on the cycle of secondary dominants in the Bridge. The other main approach to the 'A' section would be to use the F harmonic minor scale MARKER: Piano Montuno on Fm/C7b9 MARKER: Bass Starts MARKER: Series of chords from Diminished scale (C7#9/Eb7#9/Gb7#9) MARKER: Fm11 MARKER: First Bridge MARKER: Diminished scales over most of the dominant chords in Bridge MARKER: Line played by LH and RH 3 octaves apart MARKER: Descending melody in perfect 4ths MARKER: Improvised line uses diminished scale MARKER: 8 note Dim scale on C7alt (C,C#,D#,E,F#,G,A,Bb,C) MARKER: Up the Dim scale MARKER: An easy to finger scale on C7b9 MARKER: A common phrase often used to link 2 dominant chords in the cycle of 5ths MARKER: Playing around with the original melody-2 hands in unison. MARKER: Swing starts MARKER: Hi hat plays irregular pattern not just on 2 and 4 MARKER: Chords from dim scale - a minor 3rd apart MARKER: Improvised line from dim scale MARKER: Dim scale phrases are transposed in sequence down a minor 3rd MARKER: Block chords from the dim scale - a minor 3rd apart MARKER: Final Chorus MARKER: Rhythmic figure made out of melody note and its leading tone MARKER: C7#9 with chromatic neighbour (Db7#9) as a brief 'side-slip' MARKER: Another typical dim scale descending phrase MARKER: Fm11 MARKER: Down a tone to Ebm11
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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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