tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71613539743154277212009-11-07T05:42:29.407-05:00The official blog site for Yamaha's Online Services, where you'll find news about PianoSoft, new Yamaha keyboard releases, styles and MIDI songs, Piano Radio, Internet Direct Connection, Digital Music Notebook and more.Yamahahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03196808332663088357noreply@blogger.comBlogger129125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7161353974315427721.post-73695753197112705252009-11-05T16:45:00.006-05:002009-11-05T17:14:00.084-05:00

Whether the holiday season brings to mind images of fun, family and togetherness or crowded shopping malls, overpriced gifts and stress (hopefully the former), there's no doubt that this special time of year is quickly approaching.  And though Halloween is still fresh in our memories and Thanksgiving is still weeks away, why not get an early start on thinking about the holidays?  If you're the

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This week's new Premium Styles feature authentic electric blues grooves and soulful ballad backing tracks to take you back to the heydays of the boy band. As with the our other new Premium Styles, Cool Chillout and Hot Big Band, each style comes in multiple varieties, to guarantee compatibility with your particular keyboard model. Martin Harris is back to demonstrate the new styles, and his

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Yamaha and Disney, who have long been partners in entertainment, have recently begun a new stage of collaboration with a series of performances from Yamaha artists taking place at the Disneyland resort. The great news for everyone outside of Southern California, though, is that the performances will be broadcast live over the Yamaha Hub website. A series of four concerts has been planned, and

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Earlier this week we announced the release of the "Live Performances" channel on Yamaha's Piano Radio. Today, we have our resident PianoSoft insider, Cathy, to give us details on what to expect from the channel.The title of this post is a bit Halloween inspired but as excited as I am for Halloween, I'm even more excited to tell you about the new Piano Radio channel - "Live Performances."As you

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This week's new song release includes great tunes across the board, whether you want a modern pop ballad, a 70's classic rock anthem, or a slice of the 60's from the legendary Beatles.After newly remastered versions of all of the Beatles' albums were unveiled last month, Beatlemania, even 40 years on, shows no signs of letting up. We have three new fab-four songs for you this week: "Paperback

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Today we've added yet another channel to Piano Radio's roster: the Live Performance channel.Part of the beauty of Yamaha's Piano Radio is the way it replicates real, live piano performances on your instrument. In a sense, every channel on Piano Radio is a "live performance" channel. So what's so special about the Live Performance channel? The fact that every song you hear on the new channel is

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Way back in July we introduced the idea of using MIDI files with your Yamaha keyboard to learn the piano or keyboard parts to songs. Yamaha's keyboards make it easy to isolate the keyboard parts in songs, so you can either hear the parts by themselves or mute them and fill them in with your own playing. Of course, you can do this with any MIDI song that has a prominent keyboard or piano track,

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We've seen a lot of Martin Harris's work with the Tyros3 and Premium Styles in the past few weeks, but he's lucky enough to get paid to play a Yamaha keyboard all day. What about all the Tyros3 players out there who play just for the love of the performance? With so many players making such marvelous use of the Tyros3 Premium Pack and Voices, we thought it was only fair to give them and their

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The wait is over! The first new Premium Styles of the fall have officially arrived.The new styles this week give you smoking swing accompaniments, laid back, new age pop.Each style comes in multiple varieties, to guarantee compatibility with your particular keyboard model. All Premium Styles are available both from Yamaha MusicSoft and Internet Direct Connection - just log in to Internet Direct

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If you've spent much time around jazz music, you've probably heard the term "fake book" tossed around. Unless you've owned one or used one, though, chances are you're probably still a little confused about what they are and what they're good for.Good news! They're good for a lot of things, and they're readily available at Yamaha MusicSoft, Digital Music Notebook, and Internet Direct Connection.

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This week, we're pleased to announce the release of two new PianoSoft albums containing the piano solos of Robert Schumann, as interpreted by some of today's most inspiring pianists. The Schummaniad, Volume Two contains two of Schumann's piano sonatas, while Volume Three features other assorted pieces, including his Drei Phantasiestücke and Arabesque in C Major.Both albums feature performances

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Watch out! As of today, Yamaha's Piano Radio is officially haunted. Subscribers can now tune into the Halloween Hits channel for a healthy dose of holiday spirit - or spirits. Halloween Hits features tons of spine-chilling songs, including selections from our two most popular PianoSoft albums, Boo - Halloween Favorites and A Haunted Halloween.With Halloween Hits playing on your keyboard or

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Yamaha's own Martin Harris is back again this week with four new Premium Style demonstrations. Sure, not everyone can sound as good as Martin, but his performances really get across the amazing possibilities in these styles - with a little practice, anyone can create a great performance.All four of the styles Martin uses in these videos are currently available on Yamaha MusicSoft and Internet

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No matter how you plan to celebrate the scariest day of the year, remember that music can always add some extra scream potential to your Halloween. Luckily, between MIDI songs, PianoSoft, and sheet music, we have everything you need to make your Halloween musical.For those who intend to learn some new songs to scare and delight listeners this Halloween, tons of Halloween sheet music can be

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We're still a couple of weeks away from new Premium Styles, but today we're happy to offer two new styles from Midi Spot studios to tide you over. Both styles are available in versions for Tyros3 and Tyros2.Dusty's 6-8 - A mid tempo ballad style with a slight twang, and a lot of old fashioned class. Strings and horns fill out a great sound for any 6-8 slow burner.Smiling Shuffle - Led by

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Attention and all Music Finder users, especially those using Yamaha's newly released keyboards and Clavinovas - you can now expand your Music Finder library with over 1,000 new records. The newly available, and totally free, Music Finder Standard Library is here to expand your keyboard with records featuring full song names, and full style, tempo and voice setups.The Standard Library is

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Our new song releases this week include two of pop music's most powerful voices who have made triumphant returns to the charts in the past few weeks.Mariah Carey released her latest record Confessions of an Imperfect Angel this week, but her first single from the album, "Obsessed" has been blaring from stereos around the world for months. "Obsessed" is a mid tempo dance track that Carey herself

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This week we have three great new PianoSoft albums for you and your Yamaha instrument that will be especially interesting to those fans of piano music who happen to also be fans of the moving image. Albums featuring music from The Wizard of Oz and classic TV themes will, of course, produce wonderful music on your instrument, but they may also have the unexpected side effect of conjuring up

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Good news for style enthusiasts!Starting in October, you can expect to see new Premium Styles released on Yamaha MusicSoft and Internet Direct Connection every few weeks. Some of the styles will be brand new, and others will be made available in new formats. So, whether you're a Clavinova user that's been drooling over styles that previously were available only for Tyros3, or a Tyros3 player

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Many of Yamaha's keyboards have impressive recording and arranging features that allow you to compose and record your own songs. MIDI recording has been a feature of Yamaha keyboards for years, and, as we covered earlier this week, in the new PSR-S910 and the Tyros3, we now have keyboards that can even handle audio recording without any extra hardware or software.But if you don't have an

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The Music Finder feature on Yamaha's keyboards is perfect way to quickly and easily set up your keyboard to play a particular song. If you're ever wondering what sort of style, tempo, or voice to use to play a song, just look it up in Music Finder, and the Music Finder Record for that song will automatically choose the best settings and set you up to start playing instantly.With Music Finder+ you

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Back in July we reported on the unveiling of two new Yamaha keyboards, the PSR-S710 and PSR-S910, and now their release is nearly upon us.While the new keyboards feature a bunch of great and improvements over previous models - such as the addition of Super Articulation voices, improved speakers, and a video output port for the new color LCD screen - the most exciting (to me at least) is

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We're lucky enough today to present you with a profile on one of the most prolific and popular PianoSoft recording artists of all time, Bryan Pezzone, as written by our PianoSoft insider, Cathy. Enjoy!When John Williams needs a pianist for a movie score, the first person he requests is Bryan Pezzone.One of the most versatile pianists in Los Angeles, as well as one of the busiest. After all, how

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Days start getting shorter, and the balmy August air takes on a certain chill - it's nature's way of telling us to hit the books and prepare for a new school year. But even if you're not busy getting re-acquainted with notebooks and homework this September, there's no better time to get re-acquainted with your keyboard. Why not send yourself back to school this fall, and start learning to

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The Yamaha Hub site is now offering four online music games! The games, which are called YamaMonsters, all feature cartoon monsters that in one way or another help test musical skills like note reading and rhythmic comprehension. YamaMonsters is designed to help out beginning musicians, but it's equally fun for anyone interested in brushing up some basic musical skills. Here's a rundown of

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