Lighting Keyboard (Light Guide Function); Keys To Success - Yamaha EZ-300 Owner's Manual

Using the Song Lesson Feature
In addition, various learning functions are provided for your enjoyable playing experience as follows:
 Touch Tutor (page 41)
 Chord Study (page 42)
 Chord Progressions (page 43)
Lighting Keyboard (Light Guide
Function)
When using the Song Lesson function, keys that you
should press next will light in succession. The light-
ing keyboard can help you play the keyboard easily,
even if you have limited music reading skills.
When you do not want the keyboard to light:
Hold down the [FUNCTION] button for longer than a
second to call up "Light" (Function 037; page 62) and
press the [-/NO] button to turn the Light Guide func-
tion off.
In addition to the Song Lesson, the keys you press or
those specified by Song data light.
Compatible Song data includes not only the preset
Songs but also Songs transferred from the computer
to the instrument or played on the computer.
NOTE
• The keys light only when playing the MIDI Songs. They do not
light when playing the Audio Songs.
• When playing the MIDI Song data on a computer, you can
determine the channel which lights the keyboard. For details,
refer to the "Light Part 1 Setting" (Function 038) or "Light Part
2 Setting" (Function 039) on page 62.

Keys to Success

In this lesson, you can practice individual phrases in
the Song (with each Step) to effectively master the
entire Song.
1
Prepare the Song Book.
Download the Song Book from the Yamaha web-
site (page 8), or you can refer to the scores of
some Songs at the end of this manual.
The amount of Steps and lesson parts (which are
pre-programmed) will differ depending on the
Song. For details, refer to the Song Book.
NOTE
• All preset Songs 002 to 202 other than 001 can be used
with this mode, especially the "LEARN TO PLAY" cate-
gory Songs.
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2
Press the [SONG] button, then select a
Song for your lesson.
Here, select Song "Für Elise (Basic)" from the
"LEARN TO PLAY" category, then open the cor-
responding page of the Song Book.
075
Fur Elis
3
Press the [KEYS TO SUCCESS] button to
engage this lesson.
The keyboard icon, "Step01" and lesson part ("R"
or "L" or "LR") appears on the display, indicating
that you are to start this lesson from scratch. If
you have already passed several Steps, the next
Step number appears on the display.
Current Step number
Step01
Lesson part
: Right-hand lesson
: Left-hand lesson
: Both-hands lesson
4
Press the [START/STOP] button to start
Lesson.
After the lead-in, playback of the current Step
starts.
NOTE
• For your practice enjoyment, a special arrangement is
applied to each Song. This is why playback tempo may
be slower than original.
5
Practice the phrase in the current Step.
Referring to the notation in the Song Book, play
the lighting keyboard.
Appears when Keys
to Success is on
Step01
001