TEXT: [email protected] Played in real time - no editing - deliberately incorporating lots of solo jazz piano styles! MARKER: A kind of stilted stride style - limited pedalling - staccato attack - deliberately quirky MARKER: Melody in blocks in RH on beat, LH plays counter single notemelody off the beat MARKER: Deliberately 'uncool' melody - melody notes repeated in obvious way MARKER: arpeggio of perfect 4ths MARKER: RH 'strums' chord fragment on the beat, LH plays counter melody on the 'ands' MARKER: More deliberately 'quirky' stuff - RH plays chords rolled down instead of up MARKER: Chords played in a rhythm that simulates 3/4 over 4/4 - i.e. it is displaced by a beat each bar MARKER: More of the RH chords on the beat and LH counter melody MARKER: Deliberately 'old fashioned' tremolo - as in silent movies MARKER: No chords-melody and bass notes played almost randomly across kbd-Steve Kuhn does this brilliantly MARKER: Notice no pedal in this passage - notes played staccato MARKER: Brief double time feel passage MARKER: More deliberately awkward rhythms MARKER: RH plays repeated figure in 8th notes, LH plays counter melody MARKER: Discordant chords used - in one hand with lots of close intervals - MARKER: Passage played LH and RH in unison - no chords MARKER: Walking Bass in LH - attempt to change to a 'groovier' feel MARKER: Kind of 'pedal' figure on dominant and upper neighbour on the modulation into the bridge MARKER: Another rhythmic figure - played with two handed blocks - ascending MARKER: 'Whole tone' chords - on C7 - every note of the whole tone scale C D E Gb Ab Bb MARKER: On C7 turnaround, ascending perfect 4ths MARKER: 32nd note trill on F and lower neighbour in RH. LH plays melody MARKER: Back to limited pedalling on stride - precisely and evenly on the beat MARKER: Improvised line moves to the extreme treble register MARKER: Block chords arpeggiate a Gm9, with LH playing a lower neighbour on eac MARKER: Block chords in RH - LH plays grace notes up to each doubled melody note MARKER: F is returned to repeatedly from another note - as tho' drumming with thumb and fingers MARKER: More extreme treble in RH with precise machine-like kind of stride in left MARKER: RH phrases played in 3rds MARKER: LH picks up melody while RH plays chords MARKER: Turnaround on 1/6/2/5 uses tritone type subs MARKER: Semi successful! RH plays chords on beat - LH plays little descending figure MARKER: Another (semi successful) attempt at the same idea!
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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).