Regi-Stick Plus Bonnie Ballad

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Part 1 Hi everyone. Here we are with a new 'Exploring Regi-SStick' series dedicated, this time, to the Regi-SStick Plus. It was great to meet so many of you at Alvaston Hall recently and, from the number of questions asked about Regi-SStick Plus over the Club Weekend, it’s clear that there’s a big demand for some song suggestions to go with the new registrations. So, here are a few to get you started, based on the music I enjoy playing using the Regi-SStick Plus. Important: There are always some initial questions that crop up frequently when a new product is introduced and one such question associated with Regi-SStick Plus concerns the Parameter Lock feature. If you follow the instructions that come with your Regi-SStick Plus you’ll see that you’re advised to set the Parameter Lock if you use a playing mode (e.g. single finger chord etc.) that is different from the default one. The Parameter Lock 'locks' your preferred choice of split point and fingering mode so that everyone can use the new registrations in the style of their choice. If you've mislaid the instructions already (!), you'll find a PDF copy on the stick itself which you can view on any home PC with Adobe Acrobat Reader. There are so many registrations on Regi-SStick Plus that I've taken banks A-JJ alphabetically from the Registration Menu for this first list… plenty to keep you going until next time when we'll look at banks J-ZZ.

Registration name Song suggestion Registration name Song suggestion Ballad 1 Ballroom Latin 2 Tenor Whisper...... Careless Whisper Sax Bossa...... Desafinado Roger's Farewell...... The Last Farewell Combo Bossa...... I'll Never Fall In Love Again Karen & Richard...... Goodbye To Love Strings Bossa...... Meditation Goodbye Guitar...... Goodbye To Love Piano Samba...... I Love You And Don't You (guitar solo) Forget It Klaus's Way...... My Way (verse) Combo Samba...... Matrimony Klaus To Last...... My Way (chorus) Brass Samba...... Brazil Whitney's EP...... Saving All My Love For You Begin Beguine...... Begin The Beguine Annie's Flute...... Annie's Song Guitar Beguine...... Frenesi

Ballad 2 Ballroom Trad 1 Chicago Ballad...... If You Leave Me Now Full Q Step...... It's De-Lovely Hard To Say...... Hard To Say I'm Sorry Sax Q Step...... S'Wonderful Charity Single...... We Are The World Victor Sylves...... Cherokee End Of World...... End Of The World Piano Q Step...... A Walk In The Black Forest regi-stick plus Bonnie Ballad...... I Can't Make You Love Me Modern Waltz...... Wonderful One Wonderful Eric...... Wonderful Tonight Last Waltz...... The Last Waltz Our Song?...... Your Song Miller Fox...... Days Of Wine And Roses Cornwall AM...... Morning In Cornwall Bones Fox...... There's A Small Hotel

Ballroom Latin 1 Ballroom Trad 2 Rumba Combo...... Young & Foolish Guitar Jive...... All Shook Up Rumba Wood...... The Breeze & I Brass Jive...... Green Door Rumba Strings...... More Military 2-Step...... Sing As We Go Mallet Cha Cha...... Cocktails For Two Wind 2-Step...... Nellie The Elephant Trp Cha Cha...... Yellow Polka Dot Bikini Barn Dance 1...... Lily Of Laguna Ensemble Cha Cha...... Kiss Me Honey Honey Barn Dance 2...... The Sunny Side Of The Street Kiss Me Pasodoble...... Y Viva Espana Accordion Tango...... Kiss Of Fire St Bernards...... Down At The Old Bull And Strings Tango...... Jealousy Bush

10 DECEMBER 2007 / JANUARY 2008 Registration name Song suggestion Registration name Song suggestion Big Band Home Organ 1 Sweet Miller...... Moonlight Serenade (theme) Light Flutes...... Tammy Miller Solos...... Moonlight Serenade (solos) Warm Organ...... Alley Cat Jungle Trumpet...... King Of The Swingers Open Flutes...... Till Flutes 'n' Mutes...... A Couple Of Swells Lush Organ...... A Man Without Love Tutti Basie...... Shiny Stockings Swing Organ...... You're The Cream In My Coffee Tight Sax Section...... Jersey Bounce Full Organ...... Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart Easy Trumpets...... Till There Was You Clonewheel...... Cherokee Bryan & t'Band...... Mame So Nice Bossa...... So Nice (Summer Samba)

Country 1 Home Organ 2 Fiddle Around...... Chicken Reel 70s Electric...... A Foggy Day In London Town Strum Banjo...... Turkey In The Straw Electric Theatre...... Poor Butterfly Pop Waltz...... Lucille Organ Bell...... This Is My Song Tennessee...... Tennessee Waltz Close Harmony...... Whispering Grass Western Walk...... Wandrin' Star Novelty Organ...... Java Pop C&W...... Lyin' Eyes Cha Cha Organ...... Farrago Two Step...... King Of The Road Vibrato Organ...... Just In Time Texas Bounce...... Chattahoochie 1400 Organ...... Dance In The Old Fashioned Way

Country 2 Jazz Band 1 Fiddle Ballad...... Always On My Mind George's Combo...... Lullaby Of Birdland Pick 'n' Shuffle...... Stand By Your Man George Too...... Unforgettable Rock C&W...... Thank You For Being A Friend Solo Clarinet...... Stranger On The Shore 12 String Rock...... Achy Breaky Heart Swing Violin...... Sweet Georgia Brown Guitar Ballad...... We're All Alone (verse) Fats Piano...... When Somebody Thinks You're Piano Ballad...... We're All Alone (chorus) Wonderful C&W Boogie...... Hey Good Lookin' Honky Tonk...... Kitten On The Keys Pop Folk...... The Boxer Ragtime Band...... Maple Leaf Rag Jazz Rock...... Ease On Down The Road Disco Disco Hustle...... The Hustle Jazz Band 2 Can't Say Goodbye...... Never Can Say Goodbye Dixieland Band...... Midnight In Moscow Born To Sing...... Born To Sing Forever Dixie Solos...... I Can't Believe That You're In Love Midnight Man...... Gimme Gimme Gimme With Me (A Man After Midnight) Radio Days...... Temptation Rag Eyes Off!...... Can't Take My Eyes Off You Latin Jazz...... Night In Tunisia Disco Hands...... Hands Up Larry's Solo...... Genevieve Disco A Go Go...... Hands Up (reprise) Jazz Combo 1...... Good Morning Heartache Latin Disco...... Sing It Back Jazz Combo 2...... My Foolish Heart 5/4 Combo...... Take Five Euro Organ 1 Versy Pops...... Mamy Blue The FREEZE button Klaus Ballad...... Durham Town If, having found a registration with a Disco Copa...... Copacabana style you like, you press the [Freeze] Wunder Waltz...... Mother Of Mine button, you can move from one Early Klaus...... You Are My Lucky Star registration to any other without Disco Reeds...... I Love To Love changing the style. This means that Organ Samba...... Amorada each registration setting can be used Berlin 6-5000...... Pennsylvania 6-5000 with any style - giving you an even wider range of exciting options. Euro Organ 2 Don't forget that these are just my Ballad Bell...... If I Only Had Time suggestions - and if you find some Spectral Pad...... Yesterday other songs that you like playing using Mississippi Pad...... Mississippi the Regi-Stick Plus why not share your Summerwind Pad...... Spanish Eyes ideas with other Regi-Stickers on the 1492...... Conquest Of Paradise Yamaha Club forum? Till next time, Country Organ...... Stand By Your Man enjoy your music… and happy Regi- Near The Mark...... Amor Stickin'! Bard's Brass...... Rock Around The Clock

DECEMBER 2007 / JANUARY 2008 11 (part 2)

Part 2 Hi everyone. From the overwhelming level of feedback we’ve received it seems that our first list of song suggestions has proved to be very useful to many of you… so here's part two of our suggested repertoire list using banks J-ZZ. Bear in mind that these are only suggestions based on the songs that I've enjoyed playing. You might come up with some more - so why not share them with other Regi-SStickers on the Yamaha Club forum? In the next edition, I'll be looking in more detail at the Classical and Theatre Organ registrations and exploring the fantastic ‘Melody Maker’ section. Before that, however, let's go straight to our first bank of registrations, one of my personal favourites…

Registration name Song suggestion Registration name Song suggestion

Jazz Organ 1 Latin Carnival 2 (continued) Blue Jimmy...... Organ Grinder's Swing Let's Limbo...... Soul Limbo Sweet Jazz...... What Now My Love Flamenco Kings...... Bamboleo 16' + 1'...... Java Jive Full Jazz...... Bedtime For Drums Latin Trad 1 Organ Bossa...... Binixica Bossa Combo...... Wave Organ Clarinet...... Cinnamon And Clove Bossa Guitar...... How Insensitive Click Bossa...... Just For You Rumba Bone...... Besame Mucho Full Bossa...... Just For You (reprise) Rumba Strings...... More Pop Rumba...... Long Live Love Jazz Organ 2 Guaguanco Brass...... Caravan Organ & Sax...... It's Alright With Me Beguine Combo...... Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps Organ & Mute...... Just In Time Beguine Tenor...... Frenesi Jazz Waltz Lite...... My Favourite Things (verse) Jazz Waltz Full...... My Favourite Things (chorus) Latin Trad 2 Big Band Organ...... April In Paris Cha Cha Sax...... Patricia 60's Blues...... Daddy's Home (theme) Cha Cha Piano...... Never On A Sunday Blues For H...... Daddy's Home (middle eight) Bolero Lento...... The Good Life Smoky Combo...... Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Granada A Go Go...... Granada Tango Argentina...... Blue Tango Latin Carnival 1 Tango Pizzicato...... La Cumparsita

regi-stick plus Samba Combo...... Matrimony Tango Continental...... Port Au Prince Samba Carnival...... Brazil Tango Orchestra...... The Rain In Spain Mellow Bossa...... You've Got A Friend Pop Bossa...... My Cherie Amor Marches Mambo Sax...... Mambo Italiano March Theme...... Stars & Stripes Forever Mambo Brass...... Speak Up Mambo March Trio...... Anchors Aweigh Mambo Quint...... Tequila Whistle March...... Colonel Bogey Mambo Jumbo...... Tequila (reprise) Low Brass...... Old Comrades 6/8 March...... Liberty Bell March Latin Carnival 2 6/8 Trio...... Let's All Go Down The Strand Reggae Organ...... Don't Worry Be Happy Escape March...... The Great Escape Reggae Caribbean...... Montego Bay Great March...... RAF March Past Tito's Salsa...... El Rey De La Puntualidad Salsa Piano...... Caribbean Lady Merengue...... El Cumbanchero Calypso...... Calypso Sweetheart

10 FEBRUARY / MARCH 2008 Registration name Song suggestion Registration name Song suggestion

Oldies R&B / Soul Let's Twist...... Let's Twist Again Redding Bay...... Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay Shadows Guitar...... Apache 6-8 Percy S...... When A Man Loves A Woman Lonesome Waltz...... Are You Lonesome Tonight Lay Down Eric...... Lay Down Sally Dawn's Ribbon...... Tie A Yellow Ribbon Pet & The Band...... I Couldn't Live Without Your Love Pack Leader...... The Leader Of The Pack Stevie's Lovely...... Isn't She Lovely Wonderful World...... What A Wonderful World Fat Blueberry...... Blueberry Hill Crazy Ballad...... Crazy Boogie Piano...... Green Back Dollar Bill Jean Machine...... Nut Rocker Hooters XI...... Hoots Mon

Polkas Rock Scottish Polka...... Bluebell Polka Hocus Focus...... Sylvia (intro) Highland Polka...... Donald Where's Your Troosers Sylvia's Guitar...... Sylvia (theme) Accordion Polka...... Rosamunda Please Call Me...... Call Me Clarinet Polka...... Clarinet Polka Status Blow...... Rocking All Over The World Party Polka...... Una Paloma Blanca Office Handbag...... Handbags And Gladrags Guitar Polka...... Knock Three Times Hard Beat Night...... A Hard Day's Night Organ Polka...... Born With A Smile On My Face Hot Love Rock...... Hot Love Tutti Polka...... Yellow River Door Knock Rock...... I'm Gonna Knock On Your Door

Pop Organ Symphony 1 Tijuana Organ...... The Happening Symphony...... Bolero Rising Sun...... House Of The Rising Sun Philharmonic...... Bolero Reggae Organ...... Parana Dramatic...... Conquest Of Paradise Telstar...... Telstar Full Strings...... Toreadors' March Runaway Organ...... Runaway Strings Ensemble...... Pathetique Sonata Disco Organ...... Yes Sir I Can Boogie Flute & Harp...... On My Own Rock Around...... Rock Around The Clock Pizzicato Ensemble...... Holiday For Strings Liverpool Ballad...... Love Is All Around Baroque Orchestra...... Antiques Roadshow

Pop Symphony 2 Maroon Love...... This Love Strings Quartet...... Brandenburg Concertos Bitter Sweet...... Bittersweet Symphony Woods Ensemble...... Blackadder B.G. Pop...... How Deep Is Your Love Brass Band...... Onward Christian Soldiers Breakhearter...... Heartbreaker Choir Ensemble...... Silent Night Unusual? No!...... It's Not Unusual Piano Concerto...... She Night Shak...... Nightbirds Piano Climax...... The Way We Were Just Call...... I Just Called To Say I Love You Vienna Violin...... Serenade For Strings Swedish Pop...... Waterloo Vienna Orchestra...... Voices Of Spring

Pops Orchestra 1 World Music 1 Broadway...... Movies Were Movies Scotland...... Gay Gordons Movie Ballad...... Speak Softly Love France...... Under Paris Skies Manto Strings...... Charmaine Italy...... Funiculi Funicula Manto Accordion...... Charmaine Germany...... Narhalla March Zamfir Pan...... The Lonely Shepherd Spain...... Y Viva Espana Last Trumpet...... Mornings At Seven Flamenco...... Lady Of Spain Last Strings...... Dolannes Melodie Russia...... Kalinka Xmas Card...... Away In A Manger Lambada...... Lambada

Pops Orchestra 2 World Music 2 Last A Go-Go...... Reet Petite Hawaii...... Blue Hawaii Last Party...... Choo Choo Ch'Boogie Mexico...... Cielito Lindo Cowboys...... Big Country Savanna...... The Lion Sleeps Tonight Adventure...... Star Trek Andes...... El Condor Pasa Secret Service...... Goldfinger India...... Tunak Tunak Tun Clayder Piano...... Ballade Pour Adeline Bali...... Salma ya Salama Bye Bye Bert...... Bye Bye Blues China...... Careful Lady Tijuana...... Tijuana Taxi Japan...... Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence

FEBRUARY / MARCH 2008 11 (part 3)

Hello Regi-Stickers… and welcome to the latest in our ‘Exploring Regi-Stick Plus’ series. I know many of you have been having fun working through our list of suggested song titles over the past couple of issues (if you've missed them, back copies are available from Yamaha Club office). This time we're going to look in a little more detail at some of the unique settings that really transform the Tyros2.

Tyros2 includes some great theatre organ and home When the Pedal Bass voices are installed you can organ styles and if you use these together with the create perfect 'organ' style performances using the factory One Touch Settings (OTS) you can achieve Tyros2 with MIDI bass pedals - with an organ some fantastic results. But what if you want to play registration for the right hand, a different organ classical organ or, maybe, theatre organ sounds in a accompaniment setting for the left hand, and a bass 'true' organ style with no accompaniment style? This is voice for the pedals. Should you wish to add an where Regi-Stick Plus really shines. optional lower manual to expand your left hand playing Much classical and theatre organ repertoire doesn't range... well, that's possible too. lend itself to playing with a preset accompaniment style, with its inevitable constant beat to which you Huge repertoire of music for Classical and must keep time. Regi-Stick Plus allows you to add a Theatre Organ... MIDI bass pedalboard, thus freeing the player to The Regi-Stick Plus settings for classical and theatre perform beautiful colla voce arrangements without a organ are so versatile that you can use them for a style backing. We've discussed previously in Yamaha huge repertoire - and for this very reason I haven’t Club magazine how this can be achieved, but here's a provided a list of suggested songs for these sections. quick recap…

Regi-Stick Plus contains MIDI setup templates and a library of ‘Pedal Bass’ voices... Regi-Stick Plus contains all the MIDI setup information required to make an additional pedalboard work properly. Load the settings (following the simple instructions on the leaflet included with the stick) and you're ready to go! Importantly, the Regi-Stick Plus also includes a whole bank of new 'Pedal Bass' voices… and these are vital to Classical Organ 1

the keyboard's successful performance as an organ - Classical Organ 2 because the standard bass sounds provided for the accompaniment styles simply don't work very well as 'live' pedal voices. Although the great 'MegaVoice' bass sounds work brilliantly as part of a style, reproducing very convincing and authentic acoustic and electric bass With the Classical section, I enjoy playing everything software workshop guitar lines - when you try to play them yourself from the from traditional hymns and liturgical music, through pedals and you'll get at best a disjointed 'plonky' bass Bach cantatas and fugues to typical 'concert organist' sound, and at worst a selection of pops and pings! repertoire such as Widor’s ‘Toccata’. If you're looking for inspiration there are a number of very useful simply With this in mind, we created a library of new bass scored classical organ books available - contact Jan at sounds - along the same lines as those found in the Music People (0118 988 7444) for more information. traditional electronic and pipe organ pedal voice sections. We also incorporated a smooth pedal sustain If you’ve been to one of my shows recently you may element, so your pedal line will not only sound much have heard the 'My Fair Lady' theatre organ selection more professional but it will also be easier to play and that I'm enjoying playing at the moment. And there are create a pleasing effect. some great theatre organ classics that use the novelty

12 APRIL / MAY 2008 and percussive sounds - ‘Forgotten Dreams’, ‘Wedding of normal playing technique… but the results are well worth it! the Painted Doll’, ‘Nola’, and many, many more. A good We've taken the bass pedal sound from the 'pedal play' source of theatre-style repertoire is the 'Organist Entertains' settings - and transferred it to the 'Left' section of the series of books, which include some brilliant arrangements keyboard (i.e. the section where you normally play chords to by many of our best-known theatre organ stars. control the accompaniment style). This means that you can play the bass line manually in this part of the keyboard and still achieve a full, rich, bass tone. However, because these sounds were intended originally to be played on the pedals - and because the bass notes are so deep - you can't (or mustn’t) play chords down there as the effect would be much too muddy and unpleasant. So, if you're playing the bass line with your left hand (single notes only!), and the melody with your right... where do the chords go? Well, the only place to put them is underneath the melody line. In other words, you need to play the chords and melody with your right hand. The overall effect is not Theatre USA quite as effective as you'd get when playing with pedals - but Theatre Soft it's pretty close and certainly as near as you could possibly Theatre Full wish for when using the Tyros2 on its own. This playing style works really well with many popular hymns and other sacred repertoire - why not give it a try?

No pedalboard? It doesn’t matter... Melody Maker What if you don't have a MIDI bass pedalboard? Can you produce a similar effect when playing the Tyros2 alone? Surely it can't be possible... well folks, it is! The ‘Theatre Organ’ settings on the Regi-Stick Plus are set up in a slightly different way for the 'Auto Bass' version… in fact, they've all been specifically re-programmed and re- balanced just for our non-pedal playing friends! When using these settings in 'Pedal Play' mode, the great right-hand sounds are teamed with a beautiful left-hand tibia registration and, of course, the theatre organ pedal bass sound. But when using the 'Auto Bass' settings the left hand and pedal sounds are replaced with Tyros2’s fantastic theatre accompaniment styles; you play a chord and the melody - and Tyros2 fills in the gaps! We've re-voiced and re-mixed the styles to suit the new right- hand sounds so that you always get a perfectly balanced The ‘Melody Maker’ section is one that many people have result. There are 24 theatre organ settings on Regi-Stick asked me about - and it's not only really useful but Plus, but Tyros2 has only three theatre organ styles - so (thankfully!) very simple to use and to describe. we've set everything up so that when you change settings the arrangement in the organ accompaniment changes to The Melody Maker settings are effectively a set of new One suit. And don't forget that you can use any of the Touch Settings (OTS) - but unlike OTS they aren't tied to a registrations with any of the accompaniment settings simply specific style, so you can use them anywhere and at any by pushing the [FREEZE] button to 'lock' the instrument’s time you like! Let me give you an example. I really enjoy the accompaniment section. By mixing and matching in this way, 'Organ' styles in the Ballroom section - but I'd love an 'Organ you can create a wide variety of different organ settings - Foxtrot' along the lines of the great Klaus Wunderlich-like and achieve some very professional results. Brilliant! Organ Quickstep. Alas, it's not there…. But we can achieve something very close using Melody Maker… On the Tyros2’s style panel I go the ‘Ballroom’ category and Playing a Classical Organ style without pedals... from page 1 select the 'Slowfox' style. This great style really When it comes to playing the ‘Classical Organ’ registrations reproduces a classic dance band sound - and its four One without pedals things become a little more involved because Touch Settings reflect some of the sounds of the dance band we don't have any classical organ 'styles' as such. This orchestra. Let's quickly see what we've got already in the requires a bit of 'lateral thinking' as, without the pedal bass factory OTS - George Shearing in 1, some gorgeous Strings tone, classical registrations can sound a little thin - and of in 2, Trumpets in 3, and Saxophones and Flute in 4. Great - course the bass line of a piece is absolutely fundamental to but not a sniff of Klaus anywhere. So... let's go to the Melody the whole thing sounding musically correct. The solution Maker and see what we can find. we've given you here requires a little adaptation of your

APRIL / MAY 2008 13 1 In the Melody Maker screen, I select 'Euro Organ'. 1 I choose an 'organ' based style (in this case I select the ‘Organ Rumba’ style from page 2 of the Ballroom style category. The factory OTS gives me four great ‘organ’ settings for the right hand melody.

2 Now I introduce a more 'orchestral' feel to the arrangement by selecting 'Dance Band Days' from the Melody Maker.

2 Then I press the [EDIT] button under the screen to see the eight Melody Maker settings within the Euro Organ registration bank.

3 I press the [EDIT] button again to see the individual registration settings… and find that Melody Maker has provided eight great 'band' sounds that I can use with the style in addition to 3 Now I can use any of these eight typically the four 'organ' OTS from the factory. European organ registrations - with the Slowfox style accompaniment that I've already chosen - to Mixing and matching the on-board styles and OTS create a very 'organ' style performance. with the new sounds from Melody Maker is a great way to introduce a whole new variety and spice to 4 In addition I can still use the four preset 'orchestral' your existing arrangements and I think this section One Touch Settings that the factory gave me - giving really brings a whole new ease of use to Tyros2 in a me a total of twelve registrations for the right hand 'live play' situation. melody that work perfectly well with the style. Why not take the time now to explore Melody Maker for yourself, choosing a style that you already enjoy - Using the Melody Maker in this way effectively triples but using the new right hand settings from Melody the number of One Touch Settings for any given style. Maker. It really is like having a professional player Let's look at another example, this time working the sitting right by you, giving you new inspiration and other way round. transforming your familiar arrangements into something new and exciting.

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