Yamaha DD-45- Manuals

6 DD-45/YDD-40 Owner’s Manual Panel Controls Front Panel q Display .............................................................. page 9 w [ ] [ ] buttons ........................................... page 11 e [KIT] button ...................................................... page 11 r [MAGIC TOM] b...

DD-45/YDD-40 Owner’s Manual 7 Setting Up Make all necessary settings below BEFORE turning the power on (page 9). CAUTION • Before connecting the instrument to other electronic components, turn off the power of all the components. Also, before turning any components on or off, make sure to set all vo...

Setting Up 8 DD-45/YDD-40 Owner’s Manual Using a Drum Stand An optional stand Yamaha SS662 is available for installing this instrument. Fix the instrument on the stand’s arms, aligning the stand position marks on the bottom of the instrument. NOTE • Do not tighten the arms more than necessary. Over ...

DD-45/YDD-40 Owner’s Manual 9 Listening to the Demo Songs This instrument features three demonstration Songs ( d1 – d3 ), specially created to show- case the dynamic possibilities of the instrument. 1. Turn on the power. Turn down the volume by turning the [MASTER VOLUME] control to the left and pre...

10 DD-45/YDD-40 Owner’s Manual Playing the Pads Strike the pad with the supplied drum sticks or your hands to play the Drum Voices.When playing the pads with your hands, make sure to turn the Hand Percussion feature on by pressing the [HAND PERC.] button.The volume of the pads’ sounds responds to yo...

Playing the Pads DD-45/YDD-40 Owner’s Manual 11 Selecting and Playing a Drum Kit The instrument allows you to choose from 50 different Drum Kits (see the “Drum Kit List” on page 20) quickly and easily. 50 of the kits have preset Voice combinations that will be set to the pads and the pedal when the ...

Playing the Pads 12 DD-45/YDD-40 Owner’s Manual Assigning Voices to Individual Pads and Saving to a Custom Kit The instrument contains a total of 99 high quality drum Voices (see the “Voice List” on page 19)—and you can assign these freely to each of the four pads and a pedal. Try assigning some dif...

Playing the Pads DD-45/YDD-40 Owner’s Manual 13 Adding a Fill-in (MAGIC TOM) The instrument features a Magic Tom function which lets you add variations in the rhythm to make your per- formance sound more professional. Adding a fill-in requires several pads on an acoustic drum kit; however, the Magic...

Playing the Pads 14 DD-45/YDD-40 Owner’s Manual Setting the Click On/Off The instrument includes a click sound with adjust- able tempo and time signature. 1. Press the [CLICK] button to turn the click on. The click sounds in rhythm at the current tempo (see “Adjusting the Tempo” on page 16). To turn...

DD-45/YDD-40 Owner’s Manual 15 Play Along with a Pattern This instrument features 50 different rhythm patterns that can be used to provide accompa-niment (see the “Pattern List” on page 19). Play the pads (and the pedal) along with the rhythm accompaniment. Selecting and Playing a Pattern 1. Press t...

Play Along with a Pattern 16 DD-45/YDD-40 Owner’s Manual Adjusting the Tempo The Pattern tempo and Click tempo can be set any- where from 11 to 280 beats per minute. The higher the tempo value, the faster the tempo. 1. Press the [TEMPO/TAP] button. The current tempo value appears in the display. 2. ...

Play Along with a Pattern DD-45/YDD-40 Owner’s Manual 17 Muting Parts Each Pattern consists of a drum part and a backing part. Either the drum part or the backing part can be indi- vidually muted, letting you play along with the Pattern and practice the missing part. 1. Press the [MUTE] button to se...

18 DD-45/YDD-40 Owner’s Manual Troubleshooting Problem Possible Cause and Solution When the instrument is turned on or off, a popping sound is temporarily produced. This is normal and indicates that the instrument is receiving electri-cal power. The LED display is dark. The batteries are low or dead...

DD-45/YDD-40 Owner’s Manual 19 Voice List Voice No. Voice Name 1 Bass Drum Ambient 2 Kick Gate 3 Bass Drum Hard 4 Bass Drum 5 Kick Jazz 6 Analog Bass Drum 1 7 Analog Bass Drum 2 8 Open Rim Hard 9 Open Rim Shot 10 Analog Snare Open Rim 11 Snare Heavy 12 Snare Rough 13 Snare Hit 14 Snare Hard 15 Snare...

20 DD-45/YDD-40 Owner’s Manual Drum Kit List Kit No. Kit Name Voice No. Pad 1 Voice No. Pad 2 Voice No. Pad 3 Voice No. Pad 4 Voice No. Pedal 1 Standard Kit 1 13 Snare Hit 33 Hi-Hat Closed 24 Mid Tom 38 Crash Cymbal 2 1 Bass Drum Ambient 2 Standard Kit 2 14 Snare Hard 33 Hi-Hat Closed 27 Tom 2 37 Cr...

DD-45/YDD-40 Owner’s Manual 21 Drum Score There are many different types of drum score commercially available, but we’ve chosen the following common format for the examples below. : Repeat the previous measure. : Repeat the previous two measures. : Eighth notes are to be played with a triplet feel. ...

Drum Score 22 DD-45/YDD-40 Owner’s Manual 03 8 Beat 3 (Drum Kit 2) 04 8 Beat 4 (Drum Kit 3) 05 8 Beat 5 (Drum Kit 4) 06 8 Beat 6 (Drum Kit 1) 07 Rock 1 (Drum Kit 14) =112 H.H. CRASH =118 H.H. CRASH =120 H.H. =125 H.H. CRASH =102 H.H. CRASH Magic Tom 4

Drum Score DD-45/YDD-40 Owner’s Manual 23 Early rock ‘n’ roll pattern from the 1950’s, popularized by Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry and others. 08 Rock 2 (Drum Kit 15) 09 Rock’n Roll (Drum Kit 5) 10 Hard Rock 1 (Drum Kit 6) 11 Hard Rock 2 (Drum Kit 7) =140 CRASH H.H. Magic Tom 3 =168 H.H. Open CRASH...

Drum Score 24 DD-45/YDD-40 Owner’s Manual Blues is a genre created by African-Americans in the U.S. and is the musical root for both jazz and rock. A rhythm developed in dance music and jazz fusion, based on sixteenth notes. 12 Hard Rock 3 (Drum Kit 6) 13 Blues (Drum Kit 23) 14 Soul (Drum Kit 24) 15...

Drum Score DD-45/YDD-40 Owner’s Manual 25 16 16 Beat 2 (Drum Kit 8) 17 16 Beat 3 (Drum Kit 16) 18 Slow Ballad (Drum Kit 30) 19 Slow 16 Beat (Drum Kit 9) 20 16 Beat Shuffle (Drum Kit 10) =108 H.H. CRASH =126 H.H. CRASH =62 H.H. CRASH Magic Tom 3 =66 H.H. CRASH =72 H.H. CRASH Magic Tom 4

Drum Score 26 DD-45/YDD-40 Owner’s Manual This music genre originated in Chicago in 1977 and is characterized by drum machine sounds and rhythms. A dance music genre characterized by complicated and fast rhythms, with heavy bass lines. Hip Hop dates back to the 1970’s, with the emerging Rap music fr...

Drum Score DD-45/YDD-40 Owner’s Manual 27 Played with a single paradiddle rudiment. Basic legato cymbal playing for jazz drumming. 25 Technical Funk (Drum Kit 17) 26 70’s Funk (Drum Kit 18) 27 4 Beat (Drum Kit 26) 28 Big Band (Drum Kit 27) =108 RIDE CRASH R R R L L L L R R R R L L L L R =114 H.H. CR...

Drum Score 28 DD-45/YDD-40 Owner’s Manual A broad music genre created and popularized in the south in the U.S. Highly popular, funky rhythm born from traditional parades in New Orleans. 29 Swing Jazz (Drum Kit 28) 30 Country (Drum Kit 11) 31 Second Line Beat (Drum Kit 26) 32 Paso Doble (Drum Kit 12)...

Drum Score DD-45/YDD-40 Owner’s Manual 29 Popular Brazilian music style. Played with agogo and surdo as shown in this example, as well as other percussion instruments such as pandeiro and tamborim. Brazilian rhythm born in Rio de Janeiro in the late 1950’s, popularized by artists such as Antônio Car...

Drum Score 30 DD-45/YDD-40 Owner’s Manual This rhythm style emerged from Jamaica in the 1960’s. The example here is of the “one drop” playing style where the first beat is left empty. One of the major Cuban rhythms, along with Mambo and Rumba. Now that you have played through the scores above, conti...

DD-45/YDD-40 Owner’s Manual 31 Specifications Specifications and descriptions in this owner’s manual are for information purposes only. Yamaha Corp. reserves the right to change or mod-ify products or specifications at any time without prior notice. Since specifications, equipment or options may not...

32 DD-45/YDD-40 Owner’s Manual LIMITED 1-YEAR WARRANTY ON PORTABLE DIGITAL DRUMS (DD AND YDD SERIES) Thank you for selecting a Yamaha product. Yamaha products are designed and manufactured to provide a high level of defect-free per-formance. Yamaha Corporation of America (“Yamaha”) is proud of the e...