Yamaha education suite

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Introduction

Yamaha education suite refers to educational features found in many Yamaha musical keyboards, including "arranger keyboards/workstations" and digital pianos. Bascially, it's a series of keyboard lessons and graded by difficulty to help learning music and piano playing.

See also:

• Yamaha CVP-509 digital piano and Yamaha DGX-640 digital piano
• Music education technology

Features and versions

Music education topics

• notes and note recognition
• chord recognition and harmony
• timing

Features

• Standard MIDI support
• playing left and right hand part separately
• Repeat points
• Grading mechanism
• Built-in songs (a lot in some models)
• Reduce tempo
• Singing (the keyboard sings notes by name)
• Chord dictionary (shows how to play chords)

In addition to education-specific features, Yamaha keyboards have other cognitive tool functionality, such as:

• Styles (auto-accompaniment)
• Display of notation of MIDI tracks

Versions

Version 1

• Release date: 1998
• Features: Chord Dictionary, Smart Chord, and Easy Chord.

Version 2

• Release date: 2000
• Features: Dictionary mode, Timing mode, Waiting mode, Minus One mode, and Both Hands mode.

Version 3

• Release date: 2001
• Features: Guide Lights and Singing.

Version 4

• Release date: 2004
• Features: Repeat and Learn, Tempo.

Links

Introductions, presentations

• Yamaha Education Suite - Piano Keyboard Lessons for Beginners at know-your-keyboard-piano.com (retrieved oct 1 2011).

Video demonstrations

• Part 5: Yamaha Keyboard Quick Start Guide - Y.E.S. Yamaha Education Suite by YamahaCanadaMusic on YouTube. (not very interesting)