This was from March 1990.

Chet Atkins presents "The World's Most Famous Unknown Band" in a salute to Ralph Emery, and that band is: Glen Campbell, Jerry Reed, Steve Wariner, Roy Clark, Ray Stevens, Ricky Skaggs, Lee Greenwood, Steve Gatlin, Barbara Mandrell, and Irlene Mandrell.

And here's another one. This time George Harrison and The Chiffons. It's really interesting to listen to both versions at the same time!

My Sweet Lord vs. He's So Fine

Brian, I don't think they would even bother with trying to say that their 12 bar blues was subject to Copyright! I am still wondering if these two groups ever came to blows. Particularly when not only is the tune the same (except for the extra bars on that high note in Una Paloma Blance) but the lit...

Here's a piece played by JT (barwonfan) which shows the effectiveness of not having any rhythm/style playing for parts of the song. Those lovely 'rounded' harmonies really do have a dramatic effect.

My Lord, What A Morning played on Yamaha PSR S970

My type of music!

The World's Most Famous Unknown Band



Hugh

Now here's one which changes the backing to something completely different in the middle of the song. Listen to what happens at 0:52 .. a change of rhythm to emphasising every beat of the bar. When playing our keyboards we should always be prepared to look for alternative STYLES for songs like this ...

Tony, I just love the organ music you play, and particularly liked those last two. I'm not into 'pianos' playing in Church. I suppose having a piano is 'modern' and 'trendy', but give me a Church organ any day! Is the idea of the visor to wear something so that your glasses don't steam up? My wife B...

In my post earlier I did say that you can have the STYLE, LEFT and RIGHT Split Points in three different places. In the set-up below, the keyboard has been split up into four distinct areas: STYLE; LEFT; R1 + R2; R3. http://www.ar-group.org/Files/Tyros4SplitPoint1.jpg Not sure how you would use the ...

When sitting at the keyboard a couple of days ago I decided to play a song I had recorded a while ago .. Beautiful Dreamer . I remembered that I had played my own version of this and hadn't stuck to the original bar lengths, but could I remember what key I had played it in? I finally decided that I ...

Hi James, I have downloaded your two WAV files and listened to them both one after the other, front to back and back to front .. but still cannot hear any difference between your two recordings. I know that you were probably using Pachelbel's Canon In D Major as an example for something to play, but...

Hi James, Still can't hear a difference, even though I now know what I am looking for. Sorry! As I said, I do notice a difference (a HUGE difference!) when adjusting the EQ when using the amplifier and speakers. But not when I am recording. I'll try what Den has suggested and see what happens. But E...

Hi James, No difference at all! And I have quite acute hearing. I think it may be a case of knowing what difference you are expecting to hear .. and then hearing it. I even clicked at random on one, played a few bars and then played the same few bars on the other. and sometimes played the 'after' be...

Oh yes! We all say that! Hugh

Mike, Thanks for that. It was quite a challenge to put this up and try and make it easy to follow. As I 'play by ear' I don't have the sheet music for most of what I play, so if I want to play something I have played before I need to know, at the very least, what key I had played it in. So I plan on...

Next we need to get our NOTEPAD document up and running. So do that and get it up on the screen. Click with your mouse into the document (the cursor will probably be flashing in there anyway) and do a right-click with the mouse. In the box that comes up click Paste (left click). http://www.ar-group....

Next. We need to find the WORDS & CHORDS for our song Can't Help Falling In Love . There are several places where I look for WORDS + CHORDS (all Guitar sites .. of course!!!). One place I often look is The Guitar Guy , and I would click on SONGS or ARTIST and then look in the Alphabet List to fi...

Here is one I want to play. Elvis Presley - Can't Help Falling In Love vGJTaP6anOU To accomplish what I am trying to do (to get the WORDS of the song + the written CHORDS showing on the Tyros 4 screen) there are two things involved. 1. I have to find the words and chords of the song from the interne...

If you can only play from 'reading the dots' then this is not for you. But for me, so long as I know the melody of a song and have the chords laid out in front of me then I can play it. I can usually make do with just having the chords, written out in 'bars' along a line. But having the written word...

Brian, You're quite right, of course. We all buy keyboards for different reasons. As you say, the majority of people just want to sit down and play their keyboards with the on-board STYLES, and it is an achievement to succeed in playing one tune, and then another. And very satisfying. When playing i...

Brian, I should think the three PARTS of my own that I 'program' most into AR STYLES (and of course have to do each one individually) are an arpeggio; a 'repeating piano' .. high up; .. and I quite often change the 'pattern' for the BASS PART. With the BASS pattern I often find it's not suitable for...

Brian, Thanks for posting this one. What he describes (ie. what you can do with the STYLES) applies to all the Yamaha keyboards, including my AR80 organ .. which is over 20 years old now! It's just a question of which buttons to press to get what you want to do. And in your case with the PRS-SX700 i...

I've decided I rather like 'groups' taking off the original groups. So here's another one, and this is what I am listening to now.

Don't Worry Baby by The Beach Boys (Cover) - Foxes and Fossils



Hugh

Hi Brian, This is one I knew well (and really liked it), but probably used to listen to it through speakers (at nearly full volume, no doubt!). But listening through headphones is doing my head in as this is a recording where they have panned the stereo 100% to the right (the blokes) and the girls a...

I would like to point out that when we set up the STYLE CREATOR we were in SECTION: MAIN A . So this drum sound we have removed, and the cymbal we have added has only been done for MAIN A . If you wanted to do that with the whole STYLE you'd have to do the same to MAIN B, C and D; and all three INTR...

Right. We've done our recording and are happy with it. So now we have to find it. Bear in mind that these keyboards put things into 'compartments', and to see any of what we are looking for we have to go to the right area of the keyboard. Looking at the MAIN SCREEN ... http://www.ar-group.org/Files/...

Making an AUDIO RECORDING You can do Recordings in MIDI or AUDIO, but here we'll take a look at AUDIO RECORDING . When you make an AUDIO RECORDING the file you get is a WAV file ( .WAV ). This is a file that holds all the music information so typically is a fairly large file, something like 30-40MB...

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(The Beatles) Here Comes The Sun - Gabriella Quevedo

Here's a video showing the technique of how to play the keys to make them sound like the acoustic instruments.

Keyboard playing techniques to emulate other instruments

Here's another one. Not done on a Tyros, but the principle is the same. As I said above, you have to know in your head what it is you are trying to create.

PSR-S950 Style Programming Demonstration

STYLE PARTS - Creating a STYLE from scratch Not something I would particularly want to do as there are so many existing STYLES for you to choose from. And you would have to know in your head what it was you were wanting to 'create'. I would normally start with an existing STYLE and add into it some...

Brian,

This just shows that it's not just the melodies that make a song worth listening to. It's who has played/sung it and the sound they made. Wouldn't listen to this orchestral version more than once (in fact, haven't even listened to it right through even once).

Hugh