TEXT: Doug McKenzie TEXT: [email protected] - live played jazz piano MARKER: Easy Stride style MARKER: G triad on an Eb Bass resolves to ...... MARKER: ...... Eb6 chord MARKER: Internal voice that climbs chromatically up to root of chords MARKER: Contrary motion - melody ascends, bottom voice (L hand) descends. MARKER: Nice way to start an ascending run on Eb7 MARKER: First 'surround' the root wuth upper and lower neighbors ........... MARKER: .......... then play fast up to target note (in this case melody note C) MARKER: On last beat,LH plays chromatic run targets 7th of Bb7 at start of next bar MARKER: Melody harmonised in diatonic thirds MARKER: C triad on Ab bass resolves to Ab 6 MARKER: Series of diatonic 4ths under melody moving diatonically down MARKER: b6 upper structure on Bb7alt - RH plays Gb triad, LH plays 3rd and 7th MARKER: 6 upper structure on Bb7b9 - RH plays G triad, LH plays 7th and 3rd MARKER: Another series of 4th chords MARKER: Nice little decoration to a G13 chord with internal voice 13th - b13th - 5th MARKER: Crescendo with big two handed chords 'Concerto' style - MARKER: On turnaround, pedal tone (Bb) played with LH just under RH chords(not low) MARKER: 'Trio' in MARKER: Melody note 'drummed' on instead of just being held MARKER: Octave tremolo in 'lazy' triplet rhythm MARKER: A half/whole tone ascending diminished scale MARKER: The F target note is surrounded by its neighbors MARKER: EbMaj7#5 resolves to Eb6 MARKER: Rolled 2 handed chords ascend chromatically MARKER: RH triads (2nd inversion) over LH notes Bb/C, Ab/Bb,Gb/Ab, E/Gb,Eb/F MARKER: On A7 (=Eb7) arpeggiated a triad MARKER: Fm triad notes with neighboring tones MARKER: Cm triad notes with neighbors MARKER: Upper structures again (see bar 17 above)) MARKER: Block chords harmonise diminished scale MARKER: On Abm, a Gb major scale MARKER: Double time feel MARKER: Half/whole diminished scale - RH and LH a minor third apart MARKER: Triplet 'drumming' on Bb7b9 - LH plays Ab&Bb, RH plays Em7chord MARKER: Big 2 hand chords-LH rootless voicing-RH octaves with chord tones b'tween MARKER: On C7, begin with arpeggio - MARKER: Continue ascending run with diminished scale MARKER: On F9 easy run Eb,G,Eb,C,A,Ab,G,Gb,F,Fb,Eb - 3,5,3,2,1,3,1,3,2,1,3 MARKER: Same notes as Bar 17, but triads in RH played in rhthmic pattern MARKER: Strong pattern established in previous bars continues even tho' 'wrong ' notes MARKER: eventually resolve MARKER: Same rhythmic pattern established earlier continues up in semitones MARKER: Different rhythmic pattern - still using two handed block voicings MARKER: Chords in RH are rolled downwards instead of the usual upwards MARKER: Ending begins on tritone of Eb as half diminished chord (Am7b5) MARKER: Abm7 - hold Eb as top note of chord MARKER: Gm7 MARKER: Run begins on Gm9 arpeggio ............. MARKER: ........... then 'Surround' the tonic (G) ............. MARKER: ........ then play up chromatically to target note E (third of C7b9) MARKER: Down to the bottom of the piano - random notes from C7 altered scale MARKER: Target note is a low Gb MARKER: On Fm9 - block chords in close position - LH doubles top note MARKER: On Bb7b9, easy 2 handed run - pedal down to catch low Bb MARKER: LH plays black notes (Ab&Bb) RH plays white (1st inversion G triad - B,D,G) MARKER: EbMaj7#11 - then F major pentatonic run to top of piano
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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).