Yamaha Education Suite - Piano Keyboard Lessons for Beginners

Yamaha Education Suite - Piano Keyboard Lessons for Beginners

Yamaha Education Suite - Learn important musical skills such as note and chord recognition, timing, etc. with these Piano Keyboard Lessons.

Have you got yourself a Yamaha musical keyboard, but have not yet started taking music lessons?

Are you curious to know what the various piano notes are and how some simple songs are played on a piano keyboard?

Don't worry! Yamaha's Education Suite will help you start learning even before you have formally started taking piano lessons from a teacher.

This video shows you how to use the on-board Education suite (Y.E.S.) on a Yamaha keyboard

What is the Yamaha Education Suite (YES)?

Simply put, Yamaha YES is basically Yamaha keyboard lessons!

Yamaha keyboard lessons come in the form of the Yamaha Education Suite, which you can find on almost all the Yamaha musical keyboards.

These Yamaha keyboard lessons help you to learn important musical skills such as note and chord recognition, timing, etc. on your own.

Different Yamaha (YES) Versions!

The set of Yamaha keyboard lessons that are available to you will depend on the version of the Yamaha Education Suite on your Yamaha music keyboard.

Yamaha YES was introduced way back in 1998 as version 1. Since then more versions have been introduced and as of today, the latest version of the Yamaha education suite is version 4.

So basically, depending on your Yamaha music keyboard model, you may have YES version 1, YES version 2, YES version 3 or YES version 4.

What Music Lessons Does it Teach?

The Yamaha education suite has enough built-in songs and exercises to help you improve your keyboard skills. There are exercises to train both your hands at various levels of complexity.

It has a grading mechanism as well to grade your performance.

So what can you expect in the Yamaha keyboard lessons?

Here are some of the important learning features of Yamaha YES that you can find on your Yamaha music keyboard. You may find some or all of these depending on the YES version.

Good collection of built-in songs for learning that are divided into left and right hand parts, providing lessons at various levels of complexity

Repeat and Learn – You can set Repeat Points for practicing a difficult section of a Song repeatedly.

Playback Song's tempo varies to match the speed at which you play.

Mute any part of the play back song and play that part yourself

Singing – The keyboard can 'sing' notes by name - A, B, C or as Solfege - Do, Re, Me... as you play the notes.

Built-in Chord Dictionary shows you how to play chords

Get a grade for your performance as you practice each lesson

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Summary

The Yamaha Education suite (Yamaha keyboard lessons) is a convenient way to get started with learning to play keyboards / piano because they are built-in right on your Yamaha keyboard. It's a nice and easy way to familiarize yourself with the basics and also a handy tool to get started on some simple songs. The Yamaha Education suite should be seen as a supplement to your piano music lessons, and should not be seen as a replacement to a music teacher.

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