Hello from Texas, USA

[richg99]

Thanks for including me in the group.

I'm an old retiree (79) who recently decided to take up the Keyboard. As far as prior musical abilities/training...I have very little. I spent 6 months in my High School band attempting to play the clarinet. That was it!

I did take a short adult piano course about 45 years ago...but...guess what...I've forgotten much of what I learned there. Ha ha

6 months ago I bought a PSR363/YPT150. I hired an instructor for a few months. She was very helpful in getting me started, but she didn't know much about making my YPT150 work.  She was primarily a piano teacher, though she did say she owned a Yamaha keyboard.  It must have been a higher-end model as my rudimentary setup puzzled her. I know that I have a low-end machine and I am OK with that for now.

I can read music and, albeit, with some issues with arthritis, I can play the right-hand notes of simple music easily enough. The left-hand one-finger chords are coming on fine, though co-ordinating my timing could be better.

I am hoping to learn as much as I can about the mechanics of finding Styles and accompaniments that fit; downloading more Styles if that is the solution, and enjoying playing.

Presently, I can muddle through a half-dozen songs. I know all of them could be improved if I knew better how to control, amend and add in the various Styles and accompaniment(s) available to me.

I am sorry if I will be asking some dumb questions along the way. I will do some searches and read all that I can before I bother any of you.

regards, from Houston, Texas
richg99

[Toril S]

Hello Welcome to the forum. There are no dumb questions, so ask away! Many helpful people here! There are several with the E-models here. Have fun Greetings from Norway.

[Normanfernandez]

Welcome to the Forum my friend!
It's never too late to learn music. 

You'll get all the help - support - guidance.

Hope to hear your performance sometime soon
Regards Norman!

[DrakeM]

Hello and welcome Richg99 to the forum.

Our forum has a Home Page you may not know about which contains a lot of useful information found here:

http://psrtutorial.com/index.html

Be sure to check out those Home Pages as there are many "How To" Lessons regarding your keyboard's special abilities.

We are looking forward to some of your song postings in our "Songs played by forum members" section of the forum.

http://www.psrtutorial.com/forum/index.php/board,5.0.html


You ought to consider becoming a Supporting Member to gain access to the Charter Members Only section of the forum with thousands of extra Yamaha styles.

... the easiest way is to be a support member:

http://www.psrtutorial.com/cdrom/index.html

By making any kind of purchase from the store, you help support the PSR Tutorial site and this forum:

http://www.psrtutorial.com/cdrom/productsum.html

If you want more excellent styles (I am not sure how many of these styles will work in your keyboard however), as well as hundreds of free PDF songbooks, more than you can imagine, become a supporting member, you'll be glad you did.

Regards
Drake

[SeaGtGruff]

Welcome, Rich! Don't worry about bothering us, just ask away!

[panos]

Hello Rich,wellcome to the forum! 

[Del]

Hello Rich,welcome to the forum 

[Roger Brenizer]

Hi Rich,

Welcome to the forum and thank you for becoming a member.  I'm sure you'll learn a great deal about your keyboard here on the forum and will experience many pleasurable hours playing it.

You'll want to be sure to visit the Home page and check out some of the tutorials you will find links to there.  This link will take you to the Home page of the website: http://psrtutorial.com/

Should you later decide to become a supporting member, which will include lifetime membership, other forum boards will become available to you, as well as a wealth of additional musical knowledge; however, there is absolutely no obligation to do so.  You may also use the following link to discover the full benefit of becoming a Supporting Member of the PSR Tutorial.

http://www.psrtutorial.com/forum/index.php/topic,15536.0.html

You'll also gain access to an Excel Song Index database, made available to supporting members by our good friend Peter (XeeniX), which presently contains almost 73,000 song titles in over 2,000 indexed books.  This index is updated often.

In lieu of making a donation only, you may also order any of the websites resources, which can be found at the following link:

http://psrtutorial.com/cdrom/productsum.html

Joe Waters updated "Supporting the PSR Tutorial", on August 27, 2017, which can be found here:

https://psrtutorial.com/cdrom/index.html

We're so glad you've decided to become a member and very happy you've decided to become a part of this great forum family.  If you have any questions, then please just ask.  Many of our members are always very willing to help you.

[ekurburski]

WOW! I am mightly impressed. 79 and just now starting to learn the keyboard!  Makes me humble to think I'm 75 and still learning to handle my 3000 after years of playing out.  Fact is though its just black notes on paper.  You don't need to know the alphabet past G and in most pop music we don't count past 4 and divide by more then 2,4, and 8.  It is all learn-able.  Just takes practice.  So go for it guy!

[SandeepSaxena]

Welcome to the forum

[EB5AGV]

Hello from Spain,

As you can see, here there is people from all around the Globe 

Good playing!

Jose

[gmorrison]

Welcome to a fellow Texan in the big city of Houston! Best of luck with your new keyboard. It's a learning curve for me but very enjoyable.   - Gary

[hans1966]

welcome my friend, your place for playing and Talking about  Keyboards.  Hans