TEXT: [email protected] - improvised piano. MARKER: Melody played using various Block chord styles. MARKER: On G7#11 arpeggiate an A triad MARKER: pseudo march rhythm - LH plays chords on beat MARKER: More or less perfect 4ths follow melody MARKER: Big stack of perfect 4ths MARKER: LH plays chromatic descending run linking RH chords MARKER: LH plays Bb pedal tone on 'ands' alternating with 3 note cluster chord MARKER: On Cm7b5, descending run begins as Db Maj scale, MARKER: then chromatically to target the note A, the 3rd of F7 MARKER: Series of even 8th note chords with displaced accents off the beat MARKER: Perfect 4ths harmonize melody MARKER: Breaks into syncopated stride - RH strikes notes ahead of LH stride MARKER: Drums and Bass in MARKER: Phrase made up of F triad with each note 'enclosed' with neighbours MARKER: Chromatic run lands on G (the 5th of C7) on the beat MARKER: Then encloses the 5th of FMaj7 and descends as an F arpeggio MARKER: On Am7, begins on 3rd, chromatically down to neighbours of A, MARKER: Basically an A triad (on G7#11 chord) MARKER: Then, chromatically down to the 3rd of Gm7 (Bb) MARKER: Then some enclosing of the notes of Gm triad MARKER: RH plays chords shifting down by steps of a minor 3rd MARKER: LH plays chromatic scale underneath to link each RH chord MARKER: Descending pattern -diatonic (F Major) arpeggios on Am7b5/D7 Gm7/C7 MARKER: F triad arpeggios begin with chromatic lower neighbour on each MARKER: Descending run DbMaj scale (= F# lydian) MARKER: Ascending run (Db Major) finishes on (resolves to) F
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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).