TEXT: Unedited solo piano TEXT: [email protected] MARKER: Unedited solo piano MARKER: Deliberate minor 2nd dissonance on the anacrucis MARKER: Diatonic 4thy voicings follow melody MARKER: Play glissando with RH Index and 5th finger curled over on notes about a 4th apart - MARKER: so that fingernails play keys. Hand needs to lie over and to the right, so that fingers trail MARKER: both decrease in volume and in speed as you ascend MARKER: Have strong target to finish on - here a D - the root of the D7 chord MARKER: Change briefly to 'music-box' style for contrast MARKER: Pedal a C through all of this - even if it is quite dissonant MARKER: Dissonant voicing - LH doubles melody below - RH plays all the rest MARKER: Same voicing follows the melody down MARKER: On G7(#11) an A triad is outlined with repeated notes MARKER: Final phrase of melody is played 'gospel style' MARKER: In tempo MARKER: A common idiom - top note of a phrase is briefly 'tremolo-ed' as octaves MARKER: Again that A triad over a G7(#11) MARKER: Poorly executed ascending C altered scale on C7 !! MARKER: Again a C pedal tone under altered dominant chords moving around 5th cycle MARKER: The final tag - same as first phrase - pedal held down to hold final bass 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).