New Yamaha P125 Review

David B

I replaced my recently acquired Roland FP-30X with this Yamaha P125. In this review I'll explore some of the reasons why I prefer the Yamaha over the Roland.

https://youtu.be/Y6_tOgvxqr0

God Bless,
David

Del Vento

Thanks David B great review and excellent playing! I wish @eddiepiano was still active on this forum and chime in on these two reviews, I think they'd be useful to him.

With my poor headphones (don't have the good ones now), the internal sound is good.

TomLC

David B I’m so impressed with how quickly your playing has progressed. Very nice ballad at the end.

David B

TomLC I’m so impressed with how quickly your playing has progressed. Very nice ballad at the end.

Thank you. The the first song in the medley at the end I arranged from a melody I heard in a worship service on TV. It was very gratifying to understand a key and the chords of that key and then have a few arraigning techniques to help make it interesting.

I didn't know any of that before I completed the Duane Shinn course in 2020.

God Bless,
David

CyberGene

@David B indeed your playing is always better! How do you approach harmonizing those songs? I hear more and more extended chords in your playing, such as maj7 and different alterations of the dominant seventh chords, chord substitutions and I'm wondering if you've been practicing/reading some theory stuff? Or are those notated arrangements? In both cases your playing is very convincing 🙂

David B

CyberGene indeed your playing is always better! How do you approach harmonizing those songs? I hear more and more extended chords in your playing, such as maj7 and different alterations of the dominant seventh chords, chord substitutions and I'm wondering if you've been practicing/reading some theory stuff? Or are those notated arrangements? In both cases your playing is very convincing

I started this course by Greg Howlett last year and it has helped with learning and incorporating Maj/m/dom 7ths, 6ths, diminished, and half-diminished chords. That along with the Duane Shinn material has given me a roadmap for arranging. I read music so poorly that it's too tedious to lean a song from sheet music. Hopefully that will change if I can motivate myself to practice reading music more often. For now I just take simple hymns and do the best I can with them. The second song in the medley at the end (Amazing Grace) was a song covered in Duane's Praise and Gospel course, so I got a lot of help with that arrangement. The first song in the medley was one I arranged on my own. It's obviously a much more simple arrangement.

God Bless,
David