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Pop Memories of the 60s is the Time Life original that promises to return you through the sweet sounds of the 60s to the decade that changed just about everything in this country. The 60s were one of the pivotal decades in the way of political and cultural change in America, and nowhere is this better demonstrated than with the 10 CD collection profiled by Time life. The Righteous Brothers, Elvis, Ray Charles, Frankie Valli… they’re all here, and the sweet sounds of this high-profile collection can be yours with the purchase of this Time Life Original.

Music is conduit to our past, as much as it is a way to enjoy the present. The 60s, for many of the baby boomers of this country, are the decade where they matured. Learning, during the 60s, came through a number of venues. Music, for this country, was a pivotal way for the culture to express its change, and for the youth of the time to understand its place. If you are looking to revisit this time in your life, to learn about the generation that was your parents’ generation, or just to savor some of the unforgettable music made during this fascinating decade, then Pop Memories of the 60s may be just the collection for you. I am an avid listener of music from this decade, as well as the prior decade. And I can tell you that it’s seemingly all there… from Louis Armstrong to Patsy Cline… Dusty Springfield to Tom Jones… Pat Boone to Connie Francis. The list goes on and on, and there is no better way to revisit this music than through a collection put together by the musicologists at Time Life.

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Portable keyboards are available everywhere and you can get them at any price range you want. If you want a very costly one you can easily get that and if you want a low priced one then that too is available. Here we will give you a list of all the top quality Yamaha portable keyboards and their price so that you can choose the one which best suits your purpose.

The first one in our list is the Yamaha YPG 235, 76 key MIDI keyboard. This is a digital keyboard with the added feature of USB connectivity for your music transfer purposes. The price of the product is a hundred and nineteen dollars but you may get it for less if you haggle.

Next is the Yamaha PSR E413, 61 key keyboards which is the newest in the Yamaha portable series. It is highly innovated and has several new features that are not present in the earlier version. This key board is priced at only two hundred dollars approx.

Then comes the very dashing Yamaha P85, which has an eighty eight key keyboard. It is authentic and more preferred for the sound quality and expressiveness. It is one of the best ever made by the company and priced at about five hundred and fifty dollars it is a very good buy.

The next is the Yamaha YPG 535, an eighty eight key keyboard which will offer you the added advantage of a grand touch soft action. Moreover, USB connectivity is present and you can easily connect it to your computer. The machine is priced at four hundred and fifty dollars.

Now comes the lowest priced of all Yamaha portable keyboards, but one which is somewhat ranked in the middle. The Yamaha, PSR E213 61 key MIDI keyboard is one of the best for beginners of all ages. Priced at only eighty nine dollars, it is a good buy as it has about 375 instrumentals and full size, good keys.

There are many other Yamaha keyboards available but the above mentioned are the best portable keyboards ever made by Yamaha.

The first thing you need to learn before playing the piano is the piano notes. What are they called? A regular piano keyboard has 88 keys on it including the black notes. The first notes to learn are the white notes, but how do go about memorizing the names of all those white notes.

There are many different sizes of keyboards. Sixty-one and seventy-six note keyboards are standard for electronic keyboards, and pianos are traditionally eighty-eight notes. No matter what the size of keyboard there are only seven white notes to learn. Black notes are associated to the white notes and are known as sharps and flats.

So, firstly let’s learn the seven note names. They are C, D, E, F, G, A and B. Wherever on the piano you play you will be using one of these notes names. You will see that from C to G is alphabetical, the reason I haven’t started with A is because when you start learning to play the piano you will be using C as one of the first notes you ever play and it will also be a very important note and will help you relate to the other notes particularly on sheet music.

Now you know the notes, your next step is to find them on a piano. The easiest way to do this is to look at the piano keyboard, if you don’t have a keyboard, find a picture of one on the internet. Now, just look at the keyboard carefully and you will see sets of two black notes and sets of three black notes. Look at a set of two black notes first. Starting with the black note on the left, notice a white note to its immediate left this note is called C, the white note to its immediate right is called D, and this is also between the two black notes. Finally, the white note to the right of the second black note is called E. So all the notes in this section of two black notes starting at the left are called C, D and E. Depending on the size of your keyboard you will see up to eight sets of two black notes together, these are the same and also use our three notes C, D and E. The only difference between the sets is the pitch of the notes. On the far left of the keyboard, notes will sound lower in pitch and to the right, notes will sound higher.

The next shape you are looking for is three black notes together and these notes are surrounded by four white notes. Starting from the left again these notes are called F, G, A and B. That’s it; you have learned all the white notes on a keyboard. The two black note and three note shapes are repeated on the whole keyboard and so are the notes. With a little bit of practice you should be able to find any note on the piano. Just remember that every two black note shapes are surrounded by C, D and E, and every three note shape is surrounded by F, G, A and B.