Learn Your Yamaha Keyboard Effectively

Whether you have a Yamaha PSR-2000 arranger keyboard (introduced back in 2001) or have just purchased PSR-SX900 or the latest (2024) PSR-SX920 keyboard, you can use the yamaha keyboard free lessons provided here to help you master the main features in your yamaha keyboard. All Yamaha mid-range (PSR, PSR-S, and PSR-SX) and flagship (Tyros and Genos) arranger keyboards share a familiar user interface (GUI) and operating system (OS), ensuring a smooth transition between models. As new models are introduced, they build upon this foundation—offering increasingly realistic voices, expanded style libraries, and enhanced performance capabilities. Newer models have introduced additional more realistic voices, more styles and more capabilities. But how the user interfaces with the keyboard (selecting styles and voices, saving keyboard setups, playing and recording songs) has remained unchanged from the original PSR-2000 up to and including the PSR-S975/S775 models. All of the Tyros series have also used essentially the same system as the PSR and PSR-S models.

Starting in 2018 with the high-end Yamaha Genos series (replacing the Tyros5) and continuing in 2019 with the PSR-SX models such us PSR-SX900 / PSR-SX700, or newer PSR-SX920 and PSR-SX720 a new touch-screen interface replaced the button-based interface of earlier models. Many of the features of earlier keyboards are still there, but how you get to the feature is different with the touch screen.

The Yamaha Keyboard Lessons, Tips and Tutorials provided here using the button-based and/or touch screen interface generally apply to all the PSR, PSR-S, PSR-SX, Tyros and Genos series. The Yamaha Clavinova CVP digital pianos also operate similarly so CVP owners as well can benefit. Over time, additional lessons will be added to cover the differences in the new Genos and PSR-SX series. They will be added throughout the Lessons section where appropriate.

Yamaha Keyboard Lessons

Our free lessons, tips and tutorials are divided into few main sections described below and accessed via the secondary navigation bar you see above under "Lessons".

• Start Here - This section is for Yamaha keyboard new owners who have just received their keyboard and are anxious to simply get it up and start playing as quickly as possible. It introduces you to your keyboard (no matter what model you have) and explains the key things you need to understand to start playing songs. The PSR-SX900/SX700 and the latest PSR-SX920/SX720 model is included in all the Start Here lessons.
• Playing - This section focuses on helping you understand how your yamaha keyboard works, how the file system is organized, the kind of information you need to navigate the keyboard and take advantage of major features. It has four major subsections:
  • Yamaha's File System -- Your keyboard, like your computer, tablet or smartphone uses many different files in it's operations. There are style files, voice files, registration files, song files and more... This section explains how these files work and how you use them with your yamaha keyboards.
  • Music Finder System -- Having so many options available for playing a song on Yamaha keyboard, it can be difficult to know where to start. The Music Finder and/or Playlist is a database that can instantly set up your yamaha keyboard with an appropriate style and tempo for a wide variety of songs. Pick a song and start playing. NOTE: The Music Finder system has been replaced with a New Playlist Sytstem in the GENOS and PSR-SX series
  • Registrations -- Most users will want to pick their own voices and styles for their songs. Registrations allow you to "save" your settings so all your careful settings are instantly available the next time you want to play your song.
  • Recording Songs -- Not only can you capture and save your yamaha keyboard settings, but you can also record and save your playing on the keyboard. You can record your songs and share them.
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• Tuning - Once you know how to use what you've got, the next step for many users is to want to change things. It has four subsections:
  • Adjusting Styles -- Styles can be the lifeblood of an arranger keyboard. Users will soon come to want to make some adjustments in the styles that come with your keyboard. Here you will learn how to put in your own right-hand voices, change tempos, or even change some of the accompaniment.
  • Creating New Styles -- Making a brand new style is not for everyone. However, if you like the rhythm in one style and want to blend it with the guitars of a different style, you can do that. This section shows you how to blend style sections to make new styles.
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  • Adjusting MIDI Songs -- There are many places where you can download midi files, all of which will play on your keyboard. This section provides some hints on how you can create or modify a midi file to rearrange it as you want.
  • Vocal Harmony -- Some of these keyboards come with a microphone so you can sing along as you play. For the singers out there, this section will help you understand some of the ins and outs of vocal harmony.
• Workshops - Here are a number of in-depth tutorials and workshops focusing on the Tyros3/4/5 models but useful to PSR-S, PSR-SX and Genos owners as well. Learn how to organize your file structure, what kind of files are used in your yamaha keyboard and how to access them, how to setup a registration saving all your specific settings, how to develop a system for storing all of your registrations and, finally, some tips on arranging your music.
• FAQs - Frequently Asked Questions - In this section, you can download an extensive pdf file created by Michael Bedesem with answers to 461 topics of interest to PSR and Tyros owners.
• Articles - This dedicated section offers a valuable collection of insights, instructions, handy tips, and hidden gems for Yamaha keyboards, generously shared by our talented members. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned player, you'll find something here to enhance your skills, inspire creativity, and learn new possibilities.

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