Does the PA1000 recommend song titles for its styles?
Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2017 11:30 pm
I'm now looking at the PA1000 as my first real keyboard. I've been on a late 90's Technics home organ for a while, but I'm still a very ignorant beginner with keyboard music. EZ Play books, one-finger melodies, etc.
One problem I have with the Technics organ is that it does have some very good accompaniments ... and I know some of the accompaniments are lifted directly from certain hit songs. A few of the accompaniments in the Technics are exact note-for-note from the original records they were taken from. So if you know the title of the song that an accompaniment was taken from, you have a perfect match and can really impress people if you learn to play that specific song with that specific accompaniment style.
But the Technics organ has no such "song title recommendation" feature. If there is a killer tango or country style, it's up to you to find the "perfect" song to play over it. And half the time, I don't know anything about popular songs in some of these genres.
Sometimes, the name of the style is a give-away ... like "Karen's Country" obviously points to The Carpenter's "Top of the World" ... but easy ones like that are very few. Usually the style names are vague.
I believe Roland has a feature where their keyboard will recommend song titles that go with certain styles, but Roland is not an option for me for various reasons.
If I were to buy a PA1000 and it has 430 styles, is there some resource, either in the keyboard or somewhere else, that will recommend a song title (or two or three songs) for each style?
One problem I have with the Technics organ is that it does have some very good accompaniments ... and I know some of the accompaniments are lifted directly from certain hit songs. A few of the accompaniments in the Technics are exact note-for-note from the original records they were taken from. So if you know the title of the song that an accompaniment was taken from, you have a perfect match and can really impress people if you learn to play that specific song with that specific accompaniment style.
But the Technics organ has no such "song title recommendation" feature. If there is a killer tango or country style, it's up to you to find the "perfect" song to play over it. And half the time, I don't know anything about popular songs in some of these genres.
Sometimes, the name of the style is a give-away ... like "Karen's Country" obviously points to The Carpenter's "Top of the World" ... but easy ones like that are very few. Usually the style names are vague.
I believe Roland has a feature where their keyboard will recommend song titles that go with certain styles, but Roland is not an option for me for various reasons.
If I were to buy a PA1000 and it has 430 styles, is there some resource, either in the keyboard or somewhere else, that will recommend a song title (or two or three songs) for each style?