my mom's keyboard doesn't play that sweet drum breakdown! it sounds like the uploader pressed one of the rhythm buttons right after the demo song ended.
this demo song playlist has some sick vaporwave jams. currently vibing to Yamaha PSR-530 - Bossa Nova
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Monday, 16 March 2015 19:55 (nine years ago) link
Is that trying to rip off Billy Joel's 'Just The Way You Are' or Stevie Wonder's 'I Just Called To Say I Love You', or both? My Yamaha PSS-790 has a style preset called 'New Age' that sounds like the music for a daytime TV show.
― Hugh G. Wreckjoke (snoball), Monday, 16 March 2015 19:59 (nine years ago) link
And it seems that the PSS-270 actually has 'Just The Way You Are As It's Demo Tune'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDe2aXCPkjk&index=14&list=PLF62562B5B586CE52Which I kind of should know, as I own one. Actually I just dug mine out and it randomly changes the preset every couple of bars during the demo - funny when it uses something like 'Machine Gun' or 'Fireworks'.
― Hugh G. Wreckjoke (snoball), Monday, 16 March 2015 20:04 (nine years ago) link
Sounds to me like some quickly written intro that some Yamaha proggrammer tacked on just to have some sort of lead-in
^^^ yeah, I'm going with this. It makes it sound a little more arranged. (fwiw, it sounds to me like just a vamp on the main chord, the relative minor, the five and back to the one.)
― Losing swag by the second (Dan Peterson), Monday, 16 March 2015 20:22 (nine years ago) link
ha, thanks for the musicological analysis
(although it's mildly distressing to see the soundtrack to my childhood exposed as hackwork)
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Monday, 16 March 2015 21:25 (nine years ago) link
you should try posting this on tipofmytongue on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/
it's great for mysteries like this.
― J. Sam, Monday, 16 March 2015 21:44 (nine years ago) link
Our one has a massively arranged version of "Its the way that you love me" Paula Abdul.
― Mark G, Monday, 16 March 2015 21:48 (nine years ago) link
for what it's worth I recognise the little intro line in the original post but I can't place it either
― mcayrshire (dog latin), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 00:35 (nine years ago) link
And it seems that the PSS-270 actually has 'Just The Way You Are As It's Demo Tune' (...) Which I kind of should know, as I own one. Actually I just dug mine out and it randomly changes the preset every couple of bars during the demo - funny when it uses something like 'Machine Gun' or 'Fireworks'.
My grandparents had this and I would spend long periods of family gatherings listening to it loop around the presets. Had no idea it was a Billy Joel song until years later.
― bentelec, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 01:33 (nine years ago) link