Greetings from the wild west!

Does anyone know of any Hawaiian styles or MIDI files for the Tyros? Scott Yee sent me a couple from his library but Hawaiian styles seem to be very rare. If you have any you'd be willing to share I'll be glad to share what I have.

MIDI files that sound decent on the Tyros will also be appreciated. The ones I've found so far sound pretty bad on the Tyros.

I got myself in a bit of a bind by agreeing to play at a Luau. A 2 hour rendition of Tiny Bubbles just isn't going to cut it.

Have a great day!

RP

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Richard: I concur that Yamaha's specificly dedicated Hawaiian styles are slim pickings. But in addition to the 2 Tyros Hawaiian preset styles and the two others I sent you, there are a number of other internal styles in both the Tyros & PSR2000 that I find ideally suited for Hawaiian tunes.

'Happa Haule' http://www.squareone.org/Hapa/
Hawaiiian music is actually a take off of Country music so acoustic guitars with country swing is prevelant. The Tyros' mega acoustic guitar voices sound impressive, so I find there's a lot of Tyros specific styles to choose when playing Hawaiian song material. Here are just a few suggestions of other Tyros/PSR2000 styles that I find work well for Hawaiian songs:

Country Swing1: 120
Country Ballad: 72
New Country: 105
8 beat Ballad : 101
Easy Ballad: 94
8 Beat Adria: 100
Pop New Age: 66
Unplugged 1: 120

The IMPORTANT point I'd like to make is that when selecting a style for a particular song, don't limit yourself to just the Style category you'd expect to find it. Checkout other (unlikely?) style categories as well. Also experiment with changing the 'preset' tempos (sometimes to extreme). You'll be surprised how many MORE other preset styles options you suddenly have available inside the keyboard suitable for your songs. I also suggest creating voice registration banks, one for each genre of music, which will free you up for experimentation to explore other style possibilities. My custom Hawaiian Voice 'registratin bank' file consists of of the following:

1. Piano
2. Stage EP
3. Aloha Guitar (great built in pitch bend)
4. Steel Guitar
5. Harmonica
6. Accordion/Strings
7. Marimba
8. Flute

Also, sometimes just muting/changing one voice in the style accomp will make a style more appropriate for your song as well.

Richard, good luck on your luau gig. Just don't forget your lei and hawaiian shirt, Hang loose bro'. - Scott

Hello

Any two-beat type of style will work great for this.

Try these:

Gypsy Swing
All Foxtrots
All Quicksteps

Tempo at about 105 or as needed.

It's interesting that Scott Yee picked the country, because to me, a standard country beat is what I call a two-beat rhythm also.

So really those type of country beats and the other standard type two-beat styles are interchangible. You may need to mute some of the characteristic fill instruments, and then you'll see, they are all basically the same. Like fox, quickstep, gypsy swing and also some of the regular swing beats in the first few variations are all a two-beat, meaning the main beats are on 1 and 3, whereas the afterbeat is on 2 and 4.

I have a zillion extra styles, but I find the 300 built in styles on the Tyros are hard to beat.

Scott Langholff

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Almost forgot, Bossa Nova and some of the "lighter" Latins like Rhumba will work fine also.

As a matter of fact, I teach my students that when in doubt a Swing or Bossa will work on almost anything in 4.

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Thank you all for your words of wisdom. As an ear player it's helpful to hear a tune to jog the old memory.

Although I could create an evening of original music I think it's important to play music that the listener is familiar with. It's nice to have your listeners leave humming a tune they remember. As as happened in the past I'm sure my Luau gig will turn out like any other performance with the music played the result of what the audience wants.

Thanks again for your input.

RP