TEXT: [email protected] MARKER: Change of key - everything briefly up to Db MARKER: Back down to C MARKER: Pedal tone (G) - bottom note of chord in LH MARKER: LH descends in semitones: RH plays triads following melody MARKER: Arrives at Db - resolving to C MARKER: 'Cry Me a River' lick on G13 MARKER: Drop 2 block chords on diatonic melody line MARKER: On Chord tones - C6 chord: on non chord tones a diminished chord MARKER: Series of minor 11th voicings descend chromatically MARKER: 'Cry Me a River' lick again MARKER: Another chromatic descending chord thing - from F#m7b5 to Dm7 MARKER: On Dm7 chord, an Ab pentatonic scale - Scale resolves to B (3rd of G) MARKER: B/C chord (= Cdim) MARKER: On Bbm7/Eb7, a mixolydian scale MARKER: Same mixolydian run (Gb Major scale) on Abm7/Db7 MARKER: Triplet figure on E7, Then Eb7(A7), D7,G7 (Db7) MARKER: 4ths in RH over Roots in LH - CMaj7/BMaj7,BbMaj7/BMaj7/CMaj7 MARKER: More Pedal tones on G inLH MARKER: RH - Bb13,A13,Ab13 and LH - E,A,D MARKER: Ab pentatonic on Dm7b5 MARKER: Figure that uses CMaj7 notes repeated as 16th notes MARKER: Not very successful contrary motion! - RH ascends against LH chords descending MARKER: Another iii/vi/ii/V based turnaround figure MARKER: Easy little run on G7b9 - F,Ab,F,D,Db,C,B,Bb,A,Ab - 2,3,2,1,3,2,13,1,3, MARKER: Ab pentatonic on Dm7b5 MARKER: On G7 begins as half/whole dim scale then chromatic up to Melody note - B MARKER: Another chromatically descending chord voicing - begins on E7#9 MARKER: Typical end- F#m7b5,Fm7,Em7,Ebdim,Dm7,Db7,CMaj7 MARKER: Final ascending figure - echoes the anacrusis at the start of the song MARKER: Up in alternating Major and minor third intervals MARKER: i.e. outlines triads around cycle C,G,D,A,E,B.....etc
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Instructions
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).