TEXT: [email protected] TEXT: Another version with different harmonies and with bass and drums. Drums and bass in the style of modern piano trios -drums played fairly freely without sticking to a regular cymbal/hihat pattern. Bass sort of in counterpoint to piano and not always playe MARKER: Standard type arpeggiated L Hand MARKER: DbMaj7, MARKER: D7#9 MARKER: Ebm7 MARKER: Em9 MARKER: Fm7 MARKER: F#m9 MARKER: Gm9 MARKER: Gm9add6 MARKER: Abm7 MARKER: Db6/9 and Cb6/9 over Ab pedal again MARKER: Series of Major 7ths - DbMaj7 MARKER: DMaj7 MARKER: EMaj7 MARKER: FMaj7 MARKER: GMaj7 MARKER: Melody in unison 3 Octaves apart over pedalled Root note way down at the bottom MARKER: Both hands move to the treble end of the piano MARKER: 'So What' chords (stack of perfect 4ths with Maj 3rd at top of stack. MARKER: More melody in unison 3 octaves apart WITH PEDAL DOWN MARKER: Ebm11 voicing - sometimes called 'Kenny Barron' voicing Root,5,9,b3,b7,11 - played in rolling fashion -Pedal down MARKER: On D7#11, RH alternates pairs of notes from E major triad MARKER: 4th chord voicings MARKER: Basically a whole step/half step diminished scale MARKER: #9 chords rising chromatically MARKER: Bass and drums in - double time feel MARKER: F major triad with upper neighbouring tones MARKER: Kind of 'drumming' on the notes from E triad on D7#11 then Fm triad on DbMaj7 MARKER: These big voicings are 'Red Garland type structures' MARKER: i.e. RH plays Octave with perfect 5th as LH plays rootless voicing - all played togetther like a big Horn section, and covering several octaves in range MARKER: On A7alt more 'Red Garland' voicings - RH plays octaves with perfect 5th - LH plays standard rootless type voicing MARKER: Another 'drum-like repeating pattern MARKER: George Shearing type block chords in Close position. melody doubled by LH MARKER: On Fm7/Bb7 an Eb Major scale with accelerando and crescendo MARKER: These chord structures are rolled quickly from the top down MARKER: On final Db chord basically an Ab pentatonic scale with surround tones on the Ab
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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).