TEXT: Improvised solo piano - [email protected] MARKER: On Bbm an arpeggio of perfect 4ths C,F,Bb MARKER: LH and RH in Unison - 2 octaves apart MARKER: Descending dominant chords - top note on each slips up a tone MARKER: arpeggiate chord down the keyboard not up! MARKER: Bb Mixolydian scale - begins on 3rd (D) ends on 5th (F) a strong target note MARKER: In this passage, RH plays even staccato notes from Bbm7/Eb7 scale - no pedal MARKER: On F7(b9) run- LH plays black notes, RH plays white MARKER: This time on descending dominants, an internal moving voice MARKER: More lightly played staccato with RH in treble MARKER: On Cm7, chord tones are each approached diatonically by lower neighbours MARKER: Bridge starts here MARKER: The main notes of a G triad (D,B,G) are targetted in turn in this phrase MARKER: Phrase rises in semitones with appropriate chords below - notice crescendo MARKER: Each melody note is approached by a chromatic scale MARKER: Same thing again MARKER: LH again plays black RH plays white MARKER: LH plays arpeggio up Root 5th 10th then down on the next dominant chord MARKER: Final chord - G/Ab MARKER: This chord takes whole/half diminished scale staring on Ab MARKER: Resolves to 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).