DISCYamaha EZ150 61Key Portable Keyboard

Full Description

Yamaha Education Suite�

Learning to play songs and chords The EZ-150 comes with 100 built-in songs with Songbook.

The Yamaha Education Suite, a wonderful set of music training functions, makes learning music incredibly easy. Seven types of lessons are available as well as a convenient chord dictionary. Three keyboard lessons for each hand Timing mode: You can play the melody or chord by pressing any key using the correct timing. Waiting mode: Playback pauses until you find and play the correct chord or melody note. Keys illuminate to guide you to the correct notes. Minus One mode: Mute the left-hand, right-hand, or both parts of a song and play along nonstop. Lesson Grading � monitors your progress as you practice each lesson. Chord Dictionary � shows you how to play chords by lighting the keys.

Portable Grand�

Playing piano is fast and easy with Yamaha's Portable Grand function. One dedicated button brings up a great sounding stereo-sampled piano, stunningly rich and authentic in its sound, as well as setting up the keyboard to play as a piano in full keyboard mode. On top of all this, a wealth of special piano-only "Pianist" styles, like Piano Ballad or Stride for example, provide professional-sounding piano accompaniment that changes chords automatically as you do, while you play a piano melody on top!

100 Voices and the One-Touch Setting The EZ-150 has 100 voices for you to choose from.

there are 100 styles that allow you to play any song you like. It's just like having a built-in band. Call up your favorite style of music like Rock, Big Band or Country, press a chord and the 150 will follow you through a piece of music, providing all of the drums, bass, piano, guitar, horn and string parts for you.

With this instrument, you can make great sounding music with little more than 2 fingers, however as you learn to play, the EZ-150 will adapt to your new skills and automatically switch between single finger mode and fingered mode where you play all the notes of the chord.

Multi pads

Just above the keyboard on the right side are 4 Multi pad buttons that trigger musical phrases.

There is a wide selection of musical phrases to choose from to embellish your music, including Pianist, Organ, Guitar, Percussion, Drums, DJ Drums, DJ, Techno and others. Play a chord on the keyboard, and the musical phrase will automatically match it. Once you try them, you`ll see why Yamaha keyboards can make playing music fun.

Computer Connectivity

The EZ-150 has a special MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) port on the back that lets you connect your keyboard to a computer (requires an optional MIDI Interface like the Yamaha UX16 and music software). Once connected, you can play your songs into the computer, edit them if necessary, and e-mail them to your friends and family. All Yamaha Portable Keyboards are true stereo. Advanced Wave Memory (AWM) Yamaha Advanced Wave Memory technology delivers amazingly realistic sound

Brief Spec:

100 accompaniment styles

100 voices

16-note polyphony

2w stereo speakers with bass ports

4 x multipads

5 octaves/full-sized lighting keys

80 built-in songs for interaction

DJ mode

Flash ROM

GM/XG-lite compatible

LED display

MIDI in & out

Multi-fingering system (Single / Fingered chords)

PC ready feature

Portable Grand mode

'Portable Grand' mode

Song book included

Sustain pedal socket (pedal optional)

Transpose/tuning controls

Yamaha Education Suite (Y.E.S ii)

Power supply Yamaha KPA3 sold separately.