TEXT: [email protected]. Piano solo played in real time. Jessica Williams plays versions of this - MARKER: Bar 1 First chorus LH walking line, RH melody with chord stabs MARKER: Bar 1 - Pass the melody notes across octaves MARKER: Bar 33 - 2nd chorus - Cross hands - LH plays chord clusters on 'ands' while RH plays right down in bass register MARKER: Bar 65 3rd chorus - starts with an exaggerated stride style MARKER: Bar 83 beat 4 - On F# dim a wholestep/half step scale MARKER: Bar 90 - White note glissando on B half dim and E7b9 MARKER: Bar 97 - Bass and drums (Brush kit) in MARKER: Bar 104 beat 2 -This prhase is chord tones (Gm9) with neighbouring tones MARKER: Bar 125 beat 3Bluesy phrases on the turn-around, MARKER: Bar 128 - Drums - change to sticks on last chorus MARKER: Bar 136 beat 2 - Cliche gospel type phrase MARKER: Bar 143 - On C7 chord neighbouring tones of chord tones MARKER: Bar 155 - Final 8 bars using 'Red Garland' type voicings - LH plays rootless voicings, while RH plays melody in Octaves with note between a perfect 5th
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Instructions
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).