TEXT: Video and leadsheet is at http://web.newsguy.com/dougmck/ MARKER: Improvised versions of 'Cinema Paradiso' MARKER: First solo piano, then with bass and drums MARKER: Video of this at http://web.newsguy.com/dougmck/ MARKER: Piano begins at 10;07 MARKER: Rubato at first MARKER: Dim scale on C#dim chord MARKER: 'Trio' begins MARKER: Chromatic connection between chord (EbMaj7) tones - Bb and G MARKER: 'Rhapsodic' style - RH octaves with chord tones = LH rootless voicings MARKER: Phrase is chord tones 'surrounded by neighbours MARKER: This figure based on Dim scale phrase moving down by aminor 3rd MARKER: 'Locked hands' style - block chords harmonise melodic phrase MARKER: 'Close' position with LH doubling melody 8va lower MARKER: More 'locked hands' - this time harmonises diminished scale line
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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.
Read more about the former Kuhmann Directory (Disklavier World).