TEXT: Played in real time - [email protected] TEXT: Lots of ideas borrowed from Roger Kellaway's version on his 'Maybeck Hall' recital solo CD. MARKER: Opening phrase LH & RH in unison MARKER: On Am7b5 descending run - easy to execute MARKER: Resolves by surrounding 3rd of Gm MARKER: On Gm7 arpeggiated perfect 4ths - C,F,Bb MARKER: On Gb7 diminished half/whole step runn MARKER: On Fm7 - dorian (Eb major scale) ascending MARKER: continued on Fm7 - descending Fm pentatonic scale MARKER: Finishes on root of Bb7 chord MARKER: On Bb7b9 easy 2 handed ascending run - LH on Black, RH on white notes MARKER: Continue on Bb7 descending sequence of notes based on diminished scale MARKER: Parallel tenths rising to tonic (DbMaj,DMaj,EbMaj) MARKER: On Ab7 - whole tone scale - more or less randomly struck notes from the 6 notes MARKER: Sustain pedal down through all this Whole Tone stuff MARKER: One of the ways to harmonise the modulation back to Cm MARKER: D/Bb Db/A Ab6/9 G7 MARKER: Bass figure based on Blues scale MARKER: On Db7#11 Whole Tone Scale again with sustain pedal down- LH plays Black notes, RH plays white MARKER: No turn-around bar - straight back to start MARKER: 'Who's a dirty rascal?' quote MARKER: Run on F7b9 combining alternately diminished chord and chromatic scale MARKER: On C7 Whole/half dim scale - no pedal MARKER: On F13 descending run with changes of direction MARKER: Ending based on cycle of 5ths harmony finishing on Eb
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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).