MEET MY VIRTUAL BAND!

This section controls the accompaniment. It has 100 styles. It has LATIN ( Rhumba, Salsa, Mambo, etc ) On the right side of the keyboard, you first play a button that says STYLE. Then punch in the numbers. Each accompaniment has its code number. When you press a red button, you will hear the drums playing. Then you press some basic chords with your left hand and the machine will play some accompaniment ( very nice sounds ) depending on the number you pressed. All you have to worry about is your right hand doing the solo melody. BUT you must play the song precisely, in perfect timing. Your "band" will play on and on without listening to how you play! In short if your timing went south, you created a MESS, not MUSIC!

This section controls the voices ( instruments ) ..My favorite instruments are the piano, MIDI gRAND, and the BELLs..You will discover other quaint sounds..There are 100 to chose from, including drum sounds, dog barks, whistles..Those sounds would be good for the 4 year olds in your household!

the OVER ALL VIEW of the Yamaha keyboard..

It is nice and handy to have a "band in your pocket." This is for musician wannabes, or frustrated musicians who dreamed of playing on primetime TV but never made it. Or maybe for people who have lots of time in their hands at home and just want to spend some of it creatiively..

I bought this gizmo about 2 decades ago. It is only now that I have learned how write on the net that I got reacqainted with it.

Ironically, when I started playing it in public, that I found out that I did not know how to use the one man band features!

So I apologized to my audience ( the Seniors group ) and I reverted back to the old piano. Then that night I swore to learn its features and I did.

Maybe some of you have this keyboard. Somewhere. Unused. Well I am sharing with you what I learned. Just the basics anyway and you could build from there.

The best way to learn something new is to do it. Make mistakes you will but then you will learn something new until you reached the point when you have attained what you wanted to learned in the first place!

So get to your keyboards, ready, set, PLAY!

If you are doing this at 12:00 midnight, I hope you are using your head phones!!