Yamaha PortaTone PSR-1700, Owner'S Manual

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Style List
Appendix
# Name Rhythm Comments
Pop
01 16-Beat Pop 16-Beat Contemporary 16-beat pop.
02 8-Beat Pop 8-Beat Bright piano/guitar-based ’70s pop.
03 8-Beat Light 8-Beat Eight-beat easy-listening style with arpeggiated piano part.
04 FolkRock 16-Beat Guitar-based folk-rock.
05 Detroit Pop 12-Beat Motown-style rhythm, with modern touches.
06 Pop Shuffle 12-Beat ’70s European pop-shuffle.
07 Pop Rock 12-Beat Upbeat, fast pop-rock. Try using your own chords in the Intro B and Ending B. The lead guitar part plays
various phrases according to the chords chosen.
08 Showtune 8-Beat Bouncy, fully orchestrated style from ’40s/’50s musicals.
Pop Ballad
09 16-Beat Ballad 16-Beat Warm, romantic American soul ballad style.
10 Pop Ballad 8-Beat Romantic pop ballad
11 Big Ballad 8-Beat Slow ballad with full arpeggios and fancy organ fills.
12 Piano Ballad 8-Beat Piano-based ballad with slow arpeggios. Huge drum fills in Intro and Fill In 2.
13 Epic Ballad 8-Beat Pop ballad style from the ’60s and ’70s, featuring gentle strings accompaniment in MAIN A and full
orchestra in MAIN B.
14 6/8 Ballad Six-Eight Slow rock ballad with triplet feel and classical overtones.
Dance
15 Eurobeat 16-Beat Fast, 16-beat Eurobeat sound, for disco and house music.
16 Dance Pop 16-Beat 80s English disco sound.
17 Casa 16-Beat Italian house music.
18 Dance Shuffle 24-Beat Rap/dance feel, especially for one-chord songs. Try playing with CHORD 1 & 2 off. There are two sepa-
rate types for Intro B/Ending B: major and minor.
19 Groundbeat 24-Beat Contemporary soul ballad with funky bass. PHRASE 1 adds high string lines and PHRASE 2 adds bass.
20 Synth Boogie Six-Eight Fast, machine-like 6/8 computer groove with synth bass.
Disco
21 Disco Party 16-Beat Big band disco party style, hugely popular in Europe.
22 Disco Soul 16-Beat Philadelphia disco style from the ’70s.
23 Disco Tropical 16-Beat Disco sound with a Latin feel — echoes of American TV themes from the ’80s.
24 Disco Funk 16-Beat Late ’70s New York disco style.
25 Disco Pop 16-Beat The world-famous (and recently revived) ’70s Swedish disco sound.
26 Polka Pop 8-Beat Updated Polka style. Latin percussion in Rhythm 2.
Rhythm & Blues
27 R&B 8-Beat Eight-beat rhythm and blues from the ’60s .
28 R&B Ballad 16-Beat Upbeat West Coast soul ballad.
29 Fast Gospel 8-Beat Bright and brassy ’60s Chicago Rhythm & Blues style.
30 Gospel Six-Eight Gospel ballad groove for slow tempo songs.
31 6/8 Blues Six-Eight New Orleans R&B from the ’50s.
32 Blues Shuffle 12-Beat Chicago-type blues shuffle.
33 Soul 8-Beat Simple-but-effective Memphis R&B groove.
34 Funk 16-Beat Oakland’s East Bay funk style, with fat horn section and big finale for ending.
35 Funk Shuffle 24-Beat Funky guitar and funky brass stabs in a funky organ-driven shuffle. Funky!
Rock
36 Hard Rock 8-Beat Fast, hard-driving rock. P2 brings in cymbal crashes with every chord change.
37 Rock Boogie 12-Beat Hard-driving boogie with distorted guitar.
38 Rock Pop 8-Beat Mid-tempo guitar-based rock.
39 Rock Shuffle 12-Beat Smooth pop-rock style. Try bringing in the instrument parts one by one.
40 6/8 Rock Six-Eight Slow rock pattern with triplet feel and “House of the Rising Sun”-style arpeggios.
41 Rock Ballad 8-Beat Slow rock ballad. Use RHYTHM 2 to add crash cymbal at chord changes. Take out PHRASE 1 & 2
(guitars) for smoother sound.
42 Rock Classical 16-Beat Classical instruments like harpsichord and strings over a pop music rhythm section.