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- Premium bundle includes: Nady HP03 closed-cup headphones, AD5 power supply, and a World Tour SXKS keyboard stand
- 61 touch-sensitive, lighted keys
- Total of 392 high-quality instrument voices and 100 accompaniment styles
- 100 +1 demo built-in songs for easy learning - Fingering guide, Y.E.S., and "EZ-220 Page Turner" for iPad.
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This is my first keyboard, but it's obvious that Yamaha has perfected the entry level keyboard. It comes programmed with 100 songs with lighted keys to help guide you through them all. All of the 100 songs are in the song book as well. You can chose to play the right hand only, left hand only, or both hands.There are 3 modes I love the implementation and the choices for how I can go about learning a song.
1. Listen and Learn: listen to the song and you can watch the key lights/follow along in the song book.
2. Timing: the lighted keys show up for the selected hand without sound, while the sound comes through for the unselected hand. Useful for learning one hand of a song independently.
3. Waiting: the keyboard shows the lighted key, and waits for you to play it.
I also connected the keyboard to my laptop via a USB cable that wasn't provided. No more need for an extra $30 USB to MIDI converter to use Synthesia. Everything works after configuring the keyboard in the Synthesia software. The keys light up with the notes and the music comes through the keyboard speakers/headphone jack.
My main gripe is the useless junk from World Tour that is packaged with the keyboard. The headphones are horrid I'm using my own headphones with a 1/4 inch jack. The stand is also unusable because it doesn't fit the keyboard, and it gives just enough when you push to never want to place the keyboard on top of the thing. I'm using my desk for now... The wall plug works, but it could be longer.
My advice is to buy the EZ-220 without the extras, get a compatible wall plug, and get a decent keyboard stand.
In short: Keyboard is great, works fully with Synthesia via USB, quality fails on the World Tour items.http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009115NPG/ref=cm_cr_rev_prod_title
The Keyboard is awesome and worth for the money.
Good for the beginners.
The package is not worth it. means the Keyboard is good.
The world tour stand never going to fit for your keyboard.
So whoever wants to buy keyboard just buy the keyboard alone not with this crap worldtour stand bundle.
If you buy with this stand, the stand will help to dry your wet clothes under sun and not for your keyboard.
Finally, Yamaha Keyboard EZ220 keyboard is nice with the sound and the voices and the built in songs and the lights which will help the beginners to learn your favourite songs.Great keyboard that is all I expected but one needs to have someplace to set it because the stand is garbage. I should have read the reviews first.** Please be aware that the keyboard does NOT fit the stand! It can still sit ON the stand without a problem, but you can't anchor it in. So if you'll be using this keyboard in a situation on stage or standing with a lot of movement, you'll need to find a way to attach it properly, or simply get a proper stand. I already knew this from other reviews before purchasing but knew from experience that I could still set the keyboard on the stand well enough for my purposes.***
I got this keyboard as a gift for my partner who has never really touched a piano before but wanted to learn how to play. This system is great for beginner practice! The grand piano sounds is good, and although the keys are not weighted they are touch-sensitive, so when you hit the keys harder the sound is louder, similar to a real piano. There are a multitude of different instruments that are great to play around with but serve no real purpose at the moment. The built-in metronome is a great help. I thought it would be useless, but it has turned out to be an asset in helping maintain constant rhythm while doing scales.
We haven't started using the pre-programmed songs or the lighted keys for learning, but upon my own short test of this feature, it seems like it might be relatively useless. The lighted keys are a cool idea though I just don't know if we'll use them for a long time. The iPad app works well, but again it's usefulness might be limited. I already have sheet music for beginners and I thought the iPad app would be provide more versatility than just digitized sheet music with an auto-page turn feature (it uses the iPad mic to determine where you are in the song, and turns the page for you.)
So this keyboard does exactly what I expected for the price. I don't know if intermediate players will like it because it has all the typical issues with cheaper keyboards (plastic non-weighted keys that click if you touch them too hard, for example). But if you have a beginner in the house and you really don't want to spend a lot on a good electric or real piano, this is a good place to start!
Oh, and we don't use the headphones so I can't comment on those...
Thanks
SR
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