Patrick Hannequin's Styles

Patrick Hannequin has been providing styles on the PSR Tutorial forum for some time now. Here are a selection of the styles he has tweaked on his PSR3000 and for his S910. Many of the styles include multipads and special voices that fit the final style. They will play, of course, on the other Yamaha keyboards as well. You can hear Patrick perform some of his songs using these styles on his PSR Performer page.

For those of you unfamiliar with some of these styles, the Wikipedia definitions below may be helpful:

• Bossa Nova is a style of Brazilian music popularized by Antônio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes and João Gilberto. Bossa nova (which is Portuguese for "new trend") acquired a large following. Although the bossa nova movement only lasted six years (1958–63), it contributed a number of songs to the standard jazz repertoire. More info...
• Kanéka is a musical genre associated with the Kanak (the indigenous Melanesian inhabitants of New Caledonia in the southwest Pacific), stylistically a form of reggae with added flutes, percussion and harmonies. Kaneka often has political lyrics and is sung in Drehu, Paici or other Melanesian languages, or in French. More info...
• Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. Reggae is based on a rhythmic style characterized by accents on the off-beat, known as the skank. Reggae usually accents the second and fourth beat in each bar, with the rhythm guitar also either emphasising the third beat or holding the chord on the second beat until the fourth is played. More info...
• Samba is a Brazilian dance and musical genre originating in African and European roots. The word is derived from the Portugese verb sambar, meaning "to dance to rhythm." It is a worldwide recognized symbol of Brazil and the Carnival and is the national dance of Brazil. More info...
• Zouk is a style of rhythmic music originating from the islands of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Haiti, St. Lucia, and Dominica. Zouk means "party" or "festival" in the local creole of French. In Africa, it is popular in franco- and lusophone countries. In Europe it is particularly popular in France, and in North America the Canadian province of Quebec. More info...

Gig Disks for S900

(7 July 2010) Patrick, who has converted Hammer's S910 Gig Disks for use on the S900. These should also work on many other earlier keyboards although you may have to adjust the OTS.