TEXT: [email protected] - in the Bill Evans trio style - see Old Real Book Vol 2 - p155 MARKER: Last 8 bars rubato as intro MARKER: Drop 2 block chords - melody surrounds chord tones here (F and then Bb) MARKER: - lower neighbour is chromatic / upper neighbour diatonic MARKER: Dim chord on upper and lower neighbours MARKER: Nice dom (F7) to tonic (Bb) cadence using 4th voicings. MARKER: In tempo for head on first chorus MARKER: Bass plays freely but is more or less in 2. MARKER: Drums played freely - no regular Hi - hat on offbeats - rides pickup the rhythms of piano or bass MARKER: Gm11then Gbm11then Fm11 - using this voicing - LH b3,4,5 & RH b7,9,11 MARKER: Little figure that 'surrounds' the C tonic on Cm9 chord MARKER: Bill Evans 'ish' - finishing a phrase on a nice colour tone rather than chord tone - here the #11 MARKER: This phrase finishes on the 9th MARKER: 3 note phrase on Gm7 - diatonic - moves to rhythmically similar 3 note scale fragments MARKER: Chromatic figure on Gm7 begins on 11th ends on 9th MARKER: Another 3 note figure that is echo-ed but not quite so diatonically MARKER: 'Drummer' picks up the phrase MARKER: Sliding off black notes on to white MARKER: Another 3 note figure moves around MARKER: Increases in intensity as it rises MARKER: Back to head on last 8 bars
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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).