TEXT: [email protected] By Henry Mancini. TEXT: In the style of Dudley Moore trio MARKER: The left hand plays chords (mostly rootless left hand voicings) in a sort of double time clave rhythm MARKER: The key chosen (C) makes it easy to make rhythmic figures out of chord tones, most of which have a lower neighbouring tone that is a black note. MARKER: On this altered F#7 chord, a C Major triad is made into a rhythmic figure. MARKER: On this Fmaj 7 chord, the fingers of the Right hand play a white note chord, and the same finger position is maintained as other chords from the key of C (i.e. white note chords) harmonize a descending nelody MARKER: Diminished scale MARKER: Chromatic connection of the melody notes A and F MARKER: Slide off Black lower neighbouring tones onto white notes of a G Major triad MARKER: RH plays the top 5 notes alternating with the single note played with the LH in a kind of drumming style MARKER: Blues scale type lick on Am chord MARKER: Diminished scale (alternate 1/2 step whole step) on E7 b9 chord MARKER: On F Maj7 chord, chord tones played in descending sequence with passing note between each MARKER: Chords voiced as 4ths on this F Maj7 chord MARKER: Lh and Rhand play diminished scale a minor 3rd apart MARKER: The four notes of a diminished chord linked with chromatic connections MARKER: 1/2 whole Dim scale on G7b9, crossing the bar to G7/C bass chord MARKER: Am blues scale figure. MARKER: Altered scale on C7 chord MARKER: Lower neighbour tone chord (Gb) (black notes) under G chord (white notes) MARKER: C altered scale descending and resolving on F MARKER: 1/2 step whole step diminished scale on E7b9 MARKER: C major scale played with thumb and forefinger MARKER: Figure played using Dm blues scale MARKER: Use thumb and forefinger - thumb plays C, forefinger D, then thumb plays D, forefinger E etc. MARKER: On F#7(#11) chord a descending scale easy to finger C Bb Ab Gb E (Whole tones) then Eb D Db C (Chromatic) making 8 notes back to C MARKER: Diminished scale used again but on a Gdim/C chord MARKER: On Am chord - several chord tones surrounded by lower chromatic neighbour, and upper diatonic neighbour MARKER: Descending glissando played with thumbnail MARKER: Descending glissando again
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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).