TEXT: Jimmy McHugh TEXT: Played in Real time - solo jazz piano. MARKER: First Chorus Rubato MARKER: Nice V-I voicings using 4ths in RH MARKER: Nice melodic idea- each note (mostly chord tones) played twice MARKER: Red Garland voicings-RH plays octaves with pfct 5th, LH plays rootless voicings MARKER: Catch a very low root note with sus pedal& add rootless chords in middle register MARKER: For contrast root note of chord played this time just below very simple chords. MARKER: Sort of naive child-like style for this 4 bars MARKER: Pedal catches low notes as 10th-hold down as Octaves added right to top of piano MARKER: Into slow tempo MARKER: Playing very high in the piano's range with RH MARKER: LH plays very deliberately root/chord type stride MARKER: High notes in treble almost staccato - no pedal MARKER: Tremolo in octaves to sustain a note MARKER: Phrase basically use chord tones with upper and lower neighbor tones MARKER: Uses repeated note being played below melody MARKER: 2 chord tones (C and A) with chromatic passing notes (B,Bb) MARKER: Same idea basically, but up a tone MARKER: More 'extreme' treble single note lines MARKER: Line harmonised with 6ths MARKER: Use of pedal tone on chords in 2 bar turn-around MARKER: Phrases here are chords (sometimes with upper neighbors) arpeggiated downwards MARKER: Descending 'altered' scale on C7 MARKER: Rhythmically repeated note (E) with lower neighbor (Eb) MARKER: Ral - back to rubato to finish MARKER: Chord quickly rolled downwards MARKER: Finish - Major 7th chords down (F - Eb -Db) to C7 sus for simple finish on F MARKER: The common tone (F) is repeated as the topmost note through the sequence of chords
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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).