TEXT: [email protected] Improvised solo jazz piano MARKER: Perfect 4ths voicings follow melody MARKER: 'Ladybird' turnaround - Fmaj7/AbMaj7/DbMaj7/GbMaj7 MARKER: 10ths in triplets -Left hand plays octave & Right plays 10th MARKER: More pfct 4ths follow melody - LH plays bottom note MARKER: Trill on melody note and upper neighbour MARKER: LeftH plays little counter melody MARKER: Another 'Ladybird' turnaround MARKER: Dim chord inversions - LH plays bottom note MARKER: Half/whole dim scale on C7 MARKER: Play melody notes twice as 16th notes instead of once as 8th notes MARKER: Same idea as trill above - this time a tremolo in RH with LH counter melody MARKER: Series of 11th voicings follow melody down chromatically MARKER: Little RH figure involving a triad MARKER: Similar figure repeated over each new chord MARKER: Dim scale again on C7 MARKER: Simple figure on notes of F6 MARKER: Tatum-like run - RH descends, then LH ascends MARKER: Very light staccato touch MARKER: More RH tremolo - this time LH plays walking bass line but in treble register MARKER: LH and RH in unison an octave apart MARKER: Strong 12/8 feel briefly MARKER: Melody notes with 4th voicing - each approached with similar voicing above MARKER: Easy to finger descending run on Gb dim chord - start on 2nd finger MARKER: As above RH descends then LH ascends MARKER: On Eb7 2 notes (Eb&Db) alternate with A7 (A&G) in triplet rhythm MARKER: Similar figure on D7 (D&C) and its tritone Ab7 (Ab&Gb) MARKER: Dramatic 'concerto' style with big full chords in both hands MARKER: On Gm7, block chords with LH chromatic approaches up inversions of GM9 chord MARKER: Ladybird again ! MARKER: RH plays very lightly in extreme treble area of piano - LH plays simple MARKER: Another half/whole dim run on C7 MARKER: On F#dim, chord is inverted - LH links each with chromatic passing tones MARKER: A pedal tone (C) on 'ands' in Left hand MARKER: More RH tremolos - this time LH plays melody MARKER: RH plays chords - LH plays melodic phrase below
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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).