After months of hard work, the third Yamaha Club Tutorial DVD presented by Glyn Madden has recently been made available for sale on their website, which was edited by myself. Using multiple cameras, over 100GB of assets and 16 hours of video footage it wasn’t the easiest project I have ever taken on, in fact I believe it was one of the most time consuming, however now it is purchasable for the many Yamaha keyboard and digital piano enthusiasts around the world to enjoy and learn from.

Titled Basic Sequencing – Recording with Song Creater, this DVD covers a wide range of recording and editing features of Yamaha instruments.

When I was asked to produce a Yamaha Tyros3 promotional DVD, I was excited and a little daunted by the prospect for a few reasons. This was my first venture into promoting anything through the use of video, it was to be my first widescreen DVD (previous ones were in 4:3 format) and I had just 1 week to edit it all together with a total of one hour and fifteen minutes running time. Gulp! I was never going to pass up on the opportunity though as it also gave me access to the latest flagship keyboard a few months before public release!

It was a little stressful at times, however I am very happy with the end result and my thanks go out to Glyn Madden, who did a fantastic job of creating a structure and presenting the keyboard and of course James Sargeant for his performances and co-presenting. The first feedback from the subscribers of the Yamaha Club Magazine have been released in their latest edition:

Congratulations on your excellent DVD introducing the Tyros3. In addition to being a wonderful advert for the new instrument, the DVD itself is very entertaining, superbly produced and informative. - Tony Hayes

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The DVD I have been very busy working on for the last couple of months with Glyn Madden (Editor of the Yamaha Club Magazine) is now complete and to recognise this, I have now extended the trailer to include snippets of the DVD so you can get a rough idea of what is on offer. Please note that the movie below is a very low resolution version and doesn’t reflect the quality of the actual DVD:

Presented by Glyn Madden, the DVD named Getting Started – Exploring Music Finder features:

• Tutorial Chapter 1: Music Finder
  Replacing cryptic titles, adding records to the ‘favourites’ page, editing a record, creating new records – and much more
• Tutorial Chapter 2: Registrations
  Creating, naming and saving registrations
• Tutorial Chapter 3: Multipads
  Using Multipads with your performances
• James Woodcock plays Tyros 2
  The editor of Yamaha Personal Keyboard Owner plays and provides a “how to…” commentary on a song arranged by Steve Marsden for the Yamaha Club Magazine
• Tyros 2 Presentation
  Video presentation showing various features of the keyboard as well as an image slideshow
• DVD-ROM
  Use your PC to download non-cryptic Music Finder files for various keyboards and digital pianos all on the DVD without the need for an Internet connection

More information can be found below:
Getting Started: Exploring Music Finder DVD Information