Useful Resources & Links
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The original resources site and for Yamaha keyboard owners.
by ... Jørgen Sørensen
The Unofficial Yamaha PSR Resource Site provides resources for the PSR community. You will find some of Jørgen's styles, and his excellent utility programs, together with links to many other useful internet resources.
Andrew Gilbert ALCM (TD), DipLCM
Music Teacher and Computer Specialist
Andrew has always been musical and sang in both the school and church choirs from an early age. He was around 9 years old when he first heard the Hammond organ being played and, inspired by its sound, andrew started to bash away at his grandmother’s old Kimball harmonium. Andrew has worked all his life within the music industry and has probably forgotten more than most of us would ever know.
Michael Bedesem's Frequently Asked Questions
Compiled by ... Michael P. Bedesem
Michael Bedesem's Frequently Asked Questions document, which does, in fact, answer a lot of questions you may have about your PSR or Tyros keyboard or technologies relevant to arranger keyboards, this link takes you directly to his page on the friendly PSR Tutorial website.
Style Files - Introduction and Details
by ... Peter Wierzba & Michael P. Bedesem
Modern YAMAHA keyboards provide sophisticated accompaniment functions. Especially the capability to use additional styles loaded into the keyboard, or even to create new styles.
There is a lot of information available on the internet regarding these styles. But this information is widely spread and difficult to find, especially for beginners.
Together with Michael P. Bedesem I wrote a document that tries to summarize all this information to provide an easy entry point for beginners as well as a reference for advanced style creators or software programmers. The document focuses on the technical details of styles. It does not cover the musical aspects for creating styles - to download pdf document click on the musical note icon above.
Direct Order Online - Midi Files and Styles
Very probably the best styles on the Internet - Tyros voice packs also available
This is a superb website offering for sale excellent quality midi files and song specific styles for a wide range of keyboard manufacturers - discounts for quantity is available and you can search by title, keyboard model, or artist - start building a style collection second to none. A must for style enthusiasts. Tyros 3 and 4 format styles also available.
Style Disk Warehouse and Strawberry Music - Styles, Voices and Software.
Software and accessories for Technics, Yamaha, Hammond and Roland keyboards, organs and digital pianos.
Another super website offering top quality styles for all makes of keyboards, organs and digital pianos, The style disks currently available include all the Technote range and are supplemented by a huge range of software created by Neil Blake.
The Lone Arrangers Keyboard Forum
Lone Arrangers is a friendly UK based Forum and Music Workshop
LAKF is a must for those who wish to learn and discover more about the technical side of your arranger keyboard, Music Workshops are run by some of the most knowledgeable PSR and Tyros owners within the keyboard community.
Robby's Tyros Website
A wealth of information, links and downloadable material for Yamaha Tyros owners - including firmware updates and all manner of tools for the Tyros workstation
The Keyboard Capers Club (U.K.)
An Informative website focusing mailnly upon Technics Keyboards started by Roger Mepstead and Midge Gibbs
This is a UK based Technics keyboard group that has been set up for keyboard owners, to help them understand how to use the technology at their disposal. They give Technics help and advice at the group, which runs fortnightly in Swindon, Wiltshire
Although begun initially to support Technics Keyboards, the club is open to all keyboard players and enthusiasts who want to share ideas and music.
The Yamaha User Manual Library
The Yamaha Manual Library is a large collection of manuals and documents covering most of Yamaha's electronic musical instruments, each manual is created in the PDF (Portable Document Format) file format using Adobe Acrobat. To read the PDF files you need to install the Adobe Reader in your computer.
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Learning Aids and Tutorials
The Interactive Circle of Fifths ("the Circle" for short) is a tool designed to help musicians to:
figure out the key of a piece of music
easily transpose music to a different key
compose new music
understand key signatures, scales, and modes
by Rand Scullard