TEXT: One of the great songs by Alec Wilder. Lead sheet is in The New Real Book Vol 2 Page 419 (Sher Music) TEXT: Drums played first in real time in several passes, then bass and finally piano were each played in a single pass. TEXT: Doug McKenzie [email protected] MARKER: Last 8 bars - played freely MARKER: On Eb13(b9#11) LH plays black notes (Db,Eb) RH plays white (E,G,A,C) MARKER: In tempo MARKER: On F7 Lydian dominant scale MARKER: On Bb7 straight mixolydian (i.e. Eb Major scale) MARKER: Single note lines in RH staccato with lots of accents and 'space' between notes MARKER: 3 note diatonic 4th voicings in each hand MARKER: On Bb7 RH plays thirds from Eb scale MARKER: Very little pedalling - more staccato single-note lines MARKER: Short diatonic motif repeated in different positions MARKER: More diatonic thirds in RH MARKER: Another melodic phrase moved around within the diatonic scale MARKER: Brushes on last chorus MARKER: Back to solo piano played freely MARKER: Ascending diatonic scale played in note pairs MARKER: Bb pedal tone in Bass with different triads over it MARKER: On last note, the notes of a G triad over an Eb Bass note MARKER: Resolution to Eb6/9 of the tension in the G/Eb chord
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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).