Yamaha PortaTone PSR-1700 Owner's Manual page 81

# Name Rhythm
Rock & Roll
43 Rock & Roll 12-Beat
44 Boogie Woogie 12-Beat
45 Twist 8-Beat
46 Rockabilly 12-Beat
47 16-beat 16-Beat
Rock & Roll
Traditional Jazz
48 Ragtime 8-Beat
49 Dixieland 12-Beat
50 Big Band 12-Beat
51 Big Band Ballad 12-Beat
52 Swing 12-Beat
53 Swing Waltz Nine-Eight
Contemporary Jazz
54 BeBop 12-Beat
55 Jazz Ballad 12-Beat
56 Jazz Waltz Nine-Eight
57 Fusion 16-Beat
58 Fusion Shuffle 24-Beat
Latin
59 Mambo 8-Beat
60 Merengue 8-Beat
61 Beguine 8-Beat
62 Bomba 16-Beat
63 Guaguanco 16-Beat
Latin Pop
64 Pop Bossa 8-Beat
65 Bossa Nova Slow 8-Beat
66 Jazz Samba 16-Beat
67 Modern Cha Cha 16-Beat
68 Latin Rock 16-Beat
Caribbean
69 Ska 8-Beat
70 Calypso 16-Beat
71 Reggae 16 16-Beat
72 Reggae 12 12-Beat
Country & Western
73 Bluegrass 16-Beat
74 Country Pop 8-Beat
75 Country Rock 8-Beat
76 Country Ballad 8-Beat
77 Country Waltz Nine-Eight
78 Country Shuffle 12-Beat
79 Western Shuffle 12-Beat
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Comments
Old-time '60s Rock&Roll.
Late '50s piano-based rock 'n' roll, with boogie woogie bass. Brass in PHRASE 1 & 2,
PAD.
Straight-eight boogie, with a "Twist."
Simple, updated version of the Memphis "Sun" sound.
Hard rock & roll — bringing the "Bo Beat" into the '90s. Bring in more complex guitar, brass comping by
playing more complex chords.
Turn-of-the-century piano style. Piano fills at PHRASE 1, piano bass at PHRASE 2.
Old-time New Orleans jazz. Trumpet at PHRASE 1, Trombone at PHRASE 2, and Clarinets at PAD.
Big Band orchestra style and instrumentation. Piano at CHORD 1, guitar at CHORD 2, trumpets at
PHRASE 1, trombones at PHRASE 2, and saxes at PAD.
Slowly swaying Big Band sound. Use in medley with Jazz Ballad to switch to piano/guitar quartet.
European big-band swing style. Good for all mid-tempo swing tunes.
Mid-tempo 9/8 waltz.
'40s New York fast Bepop style. Good also for instantly adding a double-time feel to any style!
Slow jazz style with piano, guitar, bass and brush drums. Turn off PHRASE 1 & 2 when playing piano
melody. Use in medley with Big Band Ballad to change orchestration.
Swing style in 3/4 time for playing jazz waltz standards.
Latin flavored 16-beat fusion.
West Coast type funk shuffle.
Contemporary Latin dance music. If playing the melody with a piano sound, turn off CHORD 2.
High-energy Latin style with lots of percussion and punchy brass.
Slow rumba rhythm, a la "Begin the Beguine."
Puerto Rican dance rhythm, cousin to the Merengue.
Another high-powered Latin dance style, usually played with drums/percussion only. Use RHYTHM 1 &
2, PHRASE 1 & 2 to bring individual percussion in and out.
Soft, electric-piano based Latin pop sound.
Mellow and jazzy Bossa Nova style, good for mid to slow tempos. There are two separate types for Intro
B/Ending B: major and minor.
Traditional Brazilian samba with an added drum set.
Afro-Cuban dance style for medium slow tempos.
Contemporary Cha Cha with electric bass and drum kit.
Ska rhythm. Minor keys add doubled "skank."
Traditional Jamaican Calypso music from the '60s.
Modern Jamaican Reggae rhythm with fat synth bass.
Reggae shuffle.
Try this one with just CHORD 1 and RHYTHM 1 at first, then build up the arrangement by adding different
instruments.
Contemporary country style.
Soft country style with pedal steel sound. Guitar voicings are most authentic for simple chords, like ma-
jor, minor, 7th, etc.
Especially suited to slow tempos. Also, try playing with CHORD 1 only.
Simple, versatile country style with acoustic guitar. Guitar voicings are most authentic for simple chords,
like major, minor, 7th, etc.
Traditional country style using acoustic guitar. Guitar voicings are most authentic for simple chords, like
major, minor, 7th, etc.
Down-home Country and Western shuffle, with a modern touch.
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