Everyone has his own way of organising a style collection, mine is generically no better than yours except for me, it suits my way of working. To get the most out this collection, a little explanation may help. I organise my collection by Types, Titles, Names and Sources.
Types refer to the kind of rhythm, organised in an alphabetic memotechnic order that I have memorised and developed over the years. Many years ago, when styles used the basic DOS file 8.3 naming convention, identifying style type with just one letter was useful, and the habit stuck.
Titles refer to song names, organised by alphabetic folders.
Names refer to well known artists or groups.
Sources refer to manufacturers or keyboards whose styles have been converted to Yamaha format, or to styles from previous Yamaha keyboards.
In the styles below, I provided the Types folders from my collection. I don't think I can provide the others because there will be some styles that I bought or that someone considers copyright or proprietary and it would be too difficult to find and remove these styles.
Some are raw conversions, some have been tweaked. There are no exact duplicates (thanks to Peter Wierzba's PSR Style Database) but there will be different versions of the same basic material collected over the years. I've eliminated those I thought would never be any use, based on size, conversion errors that could be detected automatically or actual tests, but I haven't tried them all.
The Ethnic group of styles is sorted by best available information: I make no claim to be an expert on Thai or Turkish etc. music, if a style is in a particular folder it's only because someone sometime uploaded the style saying it was from that origin. They may well have been wrong!
All styles are based on the SFF1 format, usable in recent PSRs and all Tyros keyboards. SFF2 or SFF-GA format files specific to Tyros 3 are not included.
Finally, don't thank me, thank all those people who have converted, tweaked and/or contributed these styles over the years, some well known, many not. I find this collection very useful as a good place to start when I need something specific, I hope you do.
-- John Vernon
Note: John's original collection included almost 12,500 styles. I filtered these styles to eliminate those that were duplicates of styles already available on the PSR Tutorial site. That eliminated about 2,800 styles but still left an astonishing 9,700 styles. To further differentiate the style set, I divided the styles into three groups.
- The first group included all the styles with four variations and with OTS (see Table 1 below).
- The second group had four variations, but no OTS.
- The final set was styles with less than 4 variations, most of which did not have OTS.
In all cases, I have kept the styles organized using the folder scheme outlined by John. This is an enormous collection of styles. --Joe Waters
Style Categories
To save space in the tables below, I used John's 1-letter abbreviations to define style categories. Very large sets have been divided into two or three parts. For example, E1, E2, E3 denote three parts of Ethnic styles). The abbreviations and their contents are shown below:
| Abb | Categories | Abb | Categories |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8B | 8Beat, 16Beat, 12-8Beat | K | Unplugged, Acoustic |
| A | sAmba, Mambo, Salsa | L | Latin, Rumba, Bossa |
| B | Beguine, Zouk, Brazil | M | March, Polka |
| C | Charleston | N | couNtry, Dixie, Bluegrass |
| D | Dance, Disco, Pop | O | bOlero, Beguine |
| E | Ethnic | P | Paso |
| F | Foxtrot, QuickStep, Party | Q | Classical |
| G | swinG, BB, Ragtime, Shuffle | R | Rock, R&R, Twist, Jive |
| H | cHaCha, Ballroom | S | Slow |
| I | Blues, Ballad, Soul, Gospel | Y | easY, Medium |
| J | Jazz | Z | Stage & Screen |
| 8B.zip 159 styles |
A.zip 81 styles |
B.zip 36 styles |
C.zip 5 styles |
D1.zip 177 styles |
| D2.zip 163 styles |
E1.zip 208 styles |
E2.zip 259 styles |
F.zip 105 styles |
G.zip 224 styles |
| H.zip 32 styles |
I.zip 292 styles |
J.zip 100 styles |
K.zip 111 styles |
L.zip 95 styles |
| M.zip 80 styles |
N.zip 225 styles |
O.zip 21 styles |
P.zip 9 styles |
Q.zip 59 styles |
| R.zip 163 styles |
S.zip 173 styles |
Y.zip 23 styles |
Z.zip 69 styles |
| 8B.zip 265 styles |
A.zip 192 styles |
B-C.zip 88 styles |
D1.zip 248 styles |
D2.zip 202 styles |
| D3.zip 233 styles |
E1.zip 181 styles |
E2.zip 245 styles |
E3.zip 102 styles |
E4.zip 244 styles |
| F.zip 202 styles |
G1.zip 174 styles |
G2.zip 255 styles |
H.zip 75 styles |
I1.zip 170 styles |
| I2.zip 199 styles |
J.zip 107 styles |
K.zip 80 styles |
L.zip 189 styles |
M.zip 93 styles |
| N1.zip 236 styles |
N2.zip 167 styles |
OPQ.zip 117 styles |
R1.zip 214 styles |
R2.zip 142 styles |
| S.zip 267 styles |
Y-Z.zip 110 styles |
| 8B.zip 73 styles |
A.zip 57 styles |
B-C.zip 72 styles |
D.zip 161 styles |
E1.zip 110 styles |
| E2.zip 259 styles |
E3.zip 284 styles |
E4.zip 73 styles |
F.zip 78 styles |
G.zip 133 styles |
| H.zip 36 styles |
I.zip 131 styles |
J-K.zip 85 styles |
L-M.zip 97 styles |
N.zip 131 styles |
| O-P-Q.zip 70 styles |
R.zip 103 styles |
S-Y-Z.zip 137 styles |
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