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Yamaha Keyboard Reviews

Yamaha Keyboard Reviews – Yamaha’s keyboards have been so popular among beginners and musicians because of its excellent sound and because of the number of unique features which its keyboards have to offer.

If you go through some of the Yamaha keyboard reviews, you will find that Yamaha is always in the forefront when introducing new features & technologies which helps it to make some of the best keyboards. Some of the Yamaha specific features are…

Yamaha Education Suite (YES)
If you want to learn to play by yourself, this feature in the Yamaha keyboards can help you go a long way. There are enough built-in songs to help you hone your skills and it has a grading mechanism as well to grade your performance. There are exercises to train both your hands at various levels of complexity. A quick look at some of the features of YES in your Yamaha electronic keyboard:

• The built-in songs are divided into left and right hand parts, providing lessons at various levels of complexity
• Playback Song's tempo varies to match the speed at which you play. You can even mute any part of the play back song and play that part while listening to the song
• Get a grade for your performance as you practice each lesson
• Practice difficult sections in the song by repeating them
• Built-in Chord Dictionary shows you how to play chords

Digital Music Notebook
It is a library of popular songs, sheet music, learn-to-play music books, riffs, and a host of other things which will help you to master your instrument. You can download any of these by connecting your Yamaha keyboard to the Internet and play back with your keyboard, you can even view them as notations on the LCD screen of your Yamaha keyboard.

Get Online with IDC
You can get online by connecting your keyboard directly to the Internet using the Internet Direct Connection (IDC). You do not need a computer! Once on the Internet, you can download midi songs, styles and music for playback on your Yamaha keyboard.

Performance Assistant Technology
If you are a beginner and if you want to impress your friends or relatives with your keyboard playing then this feature will help you. This feature adds additional notes and chords to cover up for your wrong notes. Anything that you play will be blended with additional notes to make it sound good. With this feature ON, you can give a live performance to your friends on the very first day that you bring this keyboard home -:)

MegaVoices
Every instrument has its own finer points and nuances which can be played only if you acquire considerable skills and become technically proficient at it. But with the MegaVoice technology, the various performance techniques are mapped to the different velocity ranges which can then be triggered by just applying the correct force on the keys.

This site features Yamaha keyboard reviews as well as reviews on other major brands. Besides the reviews, you will find lots of interesting articles related to keyboards and Pianos. Please feel free to go through them.

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