Terry Harriman has written a new article for Yamaha Personal Keyboard Owner continuing his great work on his Scales series. Titled Starting Out – Major Scales, Terry encourages you to practice your scales every day to improve your fingering skills:

Working for a just a few minutes every day on your ‘technique’ will not fail to pay dividends. Scale playing will help develop good finger action, strength, agility, coordination, accuracy, ‘key sense’ and an appreciation of good fingering. These two worksheets set out, in notation, six MAJOR Scales for the Right and Left Hands.

To view the article, click the link below:
> Starting Out with Major Scales

Yamaha have released two new videos demonstrating a couple of the Premium Styles on their official Yamaha Tyros3 Website. The styles include Stairway Rock and Swedish Pop presented on the Tyros3, however there are many Premium Styles available for various Yamaha instruments, so make sure you head over to the Yamaha MusicSoft website to view their entire library, which includes audio samples.

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Yamaha have released their latest software version of ‘Digital Music Notebook’ with major new improvements advancing to Version 3.0 compatible with Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7.

Digital Music Notebook is a service that allows you to easily learn your favorite songs and take lessons. Compared to other more traditional digital sheetmusic services, the Digital Music Notebook player provides a lot of useful interactivity. You can transpose into different keys, slow down tempos, look at virtual instruments with lighted keyboards and guitar fret boards just to name a few. If you are a Yamaha Keyboard or Clavinova owner with a compatible model, it gets even better. You can transfer the digital sheetmusic using a feature called Keyboard Sync and use the interactive features of your instrument to help you learn songs faster.

Features include:
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The community of Yamaha Personal Keyboard Owner have again been enjoying themselves in Blackpool for the second time this year thanks to Neville Sharman and other members of the forum. This totally member organised event has certainly attracted attention as people from all over the world and not just the United Kingdom, attend to take part in the performances and entertainment. My personal thanks to everyone involved.

If you want to find out more about the member events, please visit the Member Events board on the forum.

To send in your photos, please provide a link to an external hosting (box.net etc) or email them if small enough to jameswoodcock@yamahapkowner.com.

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In the mobile phone world, there is one that has received tremendous advertisements on the television and other media. The Apple iPhone has been enjoying an almost unstoppable victory dance in the run up to Christmas and is more than likely going to be on most gadget lovers wish list for the coming sharing of presents.

Yamaha Personal Keyboard Owner (YPKO) is now compatible with the Apple iPhone and the iPod Touch for those of you who like to keep an eye on the sites information while out and about. With its own theme especially designed for a small screen, you can enjoy many of the features taking advantage of the touch screen. The device is automatically detected when you visit the main site.

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