Hello everybody!

Recently, I have been experimenting with the guitars on the Yamaha PSR740...There are so many guitars on the Yamaha PSR740 - it is so hard to choose!

Also, I have been trying to understand and study the numerous styles that contain all of the different guitars offered by the PSR740. Since I do not know how to play the guitar, I would like to learn more about the guitar and what methods are used to play a real guitar. Then, I would like to apply those methods and techniques that guitar players use to the keyboard to make the guitar sound authentic - like as if someone is really playing a real guitar.

Also, I have some questions regarding some guitars:

1) Do you know of any resources where I can learn more about guitars in general? I need resources pertaining to acoustic and electric guitars and what style of music each guitar is specifically used for.

2) There are so many electric guitars on the PSR740! What is the difference between the feedback, overdriven, distortion guitar, muted guitar, crunch guitar, and the stackcrunch guitar? What is each individual guitar mainly used for (ex. what music style?)

3) Also, if there are anymore resources where I can learn more about all the different acoustic and electric guitars, please let me know.

Again, I really would like to learn more about the guitar and how to play it so that I can apply the techniques used by guitar players to the PSR740! Thanks in advance everyone for your help and I am looking forward to your advice!

See you around and enjoy your day!
Ryan

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Hi Ryan,
There is a "great" place , you can get all the info you need. Just sign in (it`s free) like you did here at the "Zone" and you can even listen to all kinds of guitar sounds and styles
Check it out !!! ##=====(o)
http://www.wholenote.com/

jedi

You should listen carefully to guitar music when you hear it now to examine how the different sounds are applied.

Clean guitar sounds that have that compressed Stratocaster twang, and also acoustic guitar sounds are best suited to rhythmic chordal and arpeggiated patterns (simulating rhythm and picking styles). This is due to the limited sustain these sounds have.

Distorted and Overdrive (ie. very distorted ) tend to have much more sustain and lend themselves to both 1st and 5th powerchords as well as mono lead solos. Feedback guitar is pretty much the same sound as Overdrive but morphes into a feedback wave after the note has been sustained. Use your pitchwheel when the feedback starts to whistle for that Van Halen whammy bar emulation.


[This message has been edited by Nigel (edited 07-31-2002).]

Thanks Jedi and Nigel for the responses - I really appreciate it!

Jedi, thanks for giving me that website URL! I checked out wholenote.com and there is A LOT of interesting stuff relating to guitars. I didn't have the time to check out the entire site since it is so big, but I will be sure to when I get the chance!

Nigel, thanks for the helpful tips! I still have a lot to learn about music and all of the amazing instruments that are out there. I tried using the pitch bend wheel with the feedback guitar and it sounded really cool...thanks for the tip! There is so much more to learn...music is amazing and guitars play an important role in music, so I really appreciate the tips!

By the way, Robby and I just found out that the PSR740 has 10 demo songs on it! When I saw the list of demo songs, I immediately listened to the song called "Distortion Guitar". I listened the the demo song and it was simply awesome! It was simply amazing and really gave me some insight on how the electric guitar is used. It seemed that the player applied a lot of pitch bend and modulation to the distortion guitar - but that is not all. The clean guitar, crunch guitar, and 2 tracks of the distortion guitar were used for the song...Wow! It was amazing and also made me realize that the PSR740 was a powerful instrument!

I really want to learn more about the guitar, so if any of you out here on the SynthZone would like to share some more information, please do so! Thanks!

Well, see you around and thanks again Nigel and Jedi!
Ryan

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Performance Hall, Dedicated to Thomas Brothers Music: http://webquad.tripod.com/ph/

American Conquest Real-Time-Strategy Game: http://ptrnet.tripod.com/ac/

(NEW!) Officers of Valor Gaming Group: http://ptrnet.tripod.com/oov/

[This message has been edited by ComposerRyan (edited 08-01-2002).]