I just received a movie from a friend with his kid practicing a great piece on PSR2000. The kid is practicing for a competition in a big city in North-Eastern China. His name is Shiyu LI and is a very talented kid.

The kid is 12 years old now.

Here is the movie. You need windows media player to play this piece.
http://131.128.90.184/~sylion/djhqpsj.wmv

Here is the music piece in Mp3 format.
http://131.128.90.184/~sylion/djhqpsj.mp3

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Wow, the section right after 38 seconds is crazy, thats pretty fast, it almost looks edited because of the strobe light effect, but im sure its not.

Phil

He sure have great talent, thanks for sharing
GJ

Anybody know German? I can see somebody from our board has post the movie else where. But I donot quite understand. Maybe somebody can help me. My friend wants to know some critiques.

Here is a German one

Here is another German thread

[This message has been edited by tigerfool (edited 01-19-2005).]

I agree. Shiyu is certainly a gifted young arranger keyboardist destined for a great music career. btw, for those don't already know, Shiyu's proud father is Synthzone member: Sylion:
http://www.synthzone.com/cgi-bin/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=sylion


I remember seeing a WMV 1-1/2 years ago of Shyiyu performing, so it's great to see how his playing has grown with this latest WMV. Tigerfool, thanks for sharing.

Scott

It looks like musical education in China puts much emphasis on technique. Superb technique for such a young kid! -- José.


[This message has been edited by Route 66 (edited 01-19-2005).]

Hi Tigerfool,

I posted the thread on the first link.
The second is not in german.

Regarding your question: they say pretty much the same thing as here: very talented kid, very impressive how he uses his left hand to play bass and harmonies at the same time, impressive how he plays with arms crossed, impressive how he feels at ease with his KB (pushing all those buttons).
And so on.
Hope this helps.

Eric

Thanks, Eric.

As regard to the music education, yes, the music education put too much effort on techniques.

As to keyboard, there is a standard keyboard testing system from level 1 to level 9 with level 9 the best. For every level, there is a pool of selected music pieces. During the test day, each kid needs to choose one piece to perform and then perform one piece that is chosen randomly by the testing service.

Shiyu has passed level 8 and is working toward level 9 now.

Maybe someone here will share about the music education in other coutries.

Hi Tigerfool.
It looks as if there have been now more comments from the German Forum:
1. "Just shows you what you can do with a 2000 without a midifile.
2.Can you see how he switches with his left hand and plays bass at the same time?
3.When he is the same age as Michel Voncken and has a "proper machine" he will sit with his back to it and play it behind his back.
4.When I think how old he is now ,we will certainly hear about him.
5.Super youngster who will become a pro.But I wonder if he'll have time for anything else?

Your second link was actually Spanish and said:"You should all see the video"
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BTW, I remember seeing the first video which this boy made for Xmas 2003 and that was quite something also. He has certainly improved enormously since then.
It surprises me that you say he is 12 years old now. Must be something in the chinese tea that makes all Chinese look quite young compared to westeners

cheers

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Eddie from Rotherham
www.yamahakeyboards.info

Just watched the clip........... Fantastic!!

I do believe this young man taught me some keyboard technique, especially the way he played the accordian voices. I never tried the 2-hand stuff with a style playing. Gonna try that too!!

Just a thought........Would some of the pros here post some videos of their playing styles?? I seem to learn more watching someones playing style......A video performance could be played back almost instantly for review. Best wishes. -charley

Hi, this is Shiyu's father. Thanks for all your comments, including those from the Yahama-europe.com board.

Over the years, I learned quite a lot from this board.I must say Shiyu also has benefited a lot from this board. In China, there are hundreds of kids like Shiyu with similar performance level. He is certainly not the best. He still needs to improve himself.

To Scottyee: Last time, you mentioned about your interests in voices of Chinese instruments. You should definately try the new Roland GW-7. It boasts about almost all voices of Chinese intruments. To my understanding, the prices should be well around $600 once it hits the US market.

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Thanks Sylion, the GW-7 definitely sounds like an cool sounding keyboard. Are you planning to purchase one for Shiyu now?

Here's a link to Roland's China website:
http://www.roland.com.cn/roland.htm
http://www.roland.com.cn/gw_7/index.htm


In addition to inclusion of all Chinese Instrument Voices, does the GW-7 also include any auto accompanment features or arranger styles?

I hope I'm wrong here, but I suspect the GW-7 may be marketed to Asian Countries only and may not become available in the US. In the meantime, I'll keep a look out for the GW-7 to appear in the USA and will be sure to check it out.

Regarding Shiyu's fine performance on the Yamaha PSR2000. What specific Yamaha voices (instruments) were used to emulate the "traditional Chinese acoustic instruments"? What was the PSR2000's scale tune setting: "Function > Master Tune - Scale Tune" set at?

How about the styles? Were these preset styles included in his PSR2000 keyboard itself or were custom styles created? I'm wondering if Yamaha includes DIFFERENT instrument voices as well as different styles on their keyboards targeted to Asian Country markets.

I'm very interested in obtaining some authentic traditional and/or contemporary Chinese styles in Yamaha (.sty) format. Sylion, any possibility you could email me some for me to checkout and play on my Yamaha Tyros?

Thanks,

Scott


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http://scottyee.com

Hi,Scottyee.

I do not plan to buy GW-7 for my son. IMO, GW-7 is hard to operate, especially that it does NOT have registration-memory feature like Yamaha PSR series. I think it is more approriate as a second keyboard for those interested.

As described in the manual, GW-7 has about 20 built-in chinese styles. I chatted with an employee of Roland China today, he assures me that GW-7 will be marketed to US although the built-in voices and styles might be slightly different from those in China.

You do not need to tune the keyboard to play Chinese music. The PSR 2000 sold in China is not different from that in the world. Shiyu just uses the built-in voices and styles to mimic the voices and styles of Chinese instruments.

Afterall, there are only a few people in China actually own PSR 2000, so there is almost none DIY autocompanion styles. I am also searching for Chinese Styles. Once I find one, I will definately email it to you.


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