TEXT: [email protected]. Played in real time MARKER: Walking bass in LH. Notice no pedal used. MARKER: Bass uses lower neighbours (accented) especially when walking down the k'board MARKER: 'Pedal' tones - using octaves and 5ths MARKER: Walking bass in LHand can wander up into R Hand territory! MARKER: On E7b9, an easy to do run using 3rd finger on black notes, thumb aaand forefinger on white notes MARKER: Surrounding notes of G triad MARKER: An ascending Bb major pentatonic over the E7 chord MARKER: Deliberate 'wrong' note right on the downbeat resolves by a semitone step MARKER: 'Stabs' of chords between melodic phrases MARKER: Ascending phrase on E7b9 uses dim chord notes, some connected with chromatic tones. MARKER: Notes of Am triad are surrounded by Neighbour tones MARKER: Arbitrary melodic shape repeats in several positions before resolving to a chord tone. MARKER: Each note of a G triad is 'surrounded' by it's neighbours MARKER: A diatonic triplet on each note of a G triad - but using the Lydian C# MARKER: Same sort of phrase continues from the turnaround bars into the first bars of the new chorus. MARKER: Neighbour tones surround the notes of G triad MARKER: notes of diminished chord connected chromatically MARKER: Use thumb and forefinger alternately to 'drum' on notes
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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).