1 Start “Mickey Mouse Mar ch”.
T ry playing the song “Gallant Pig” with a pig’ s voice.
Choose the sev enth song in the song list “G allant Pig”. Next,
choose “Pig” from the instruments list. What do y ou think
will happen?
D oesn’t that sound funny? It sounds like a pig is singing “ Gal-
lant Pig”. T r y to play the melody yourself .
T r y the same thing using other animal v oices like “Cat”, “D og”
or “Cow” f or the melody .
P ress the r ed [SONGS] button two times .
Y ou know this song very well. It’ s “Mickey Mouse
Mar ch”.
P ress the r ed [S T OP] button, and “Mickey Mouse
Mar ch” will stop .
Next, let’ s tr y to play along with the song.
2 T ry playing along with the song.
If you ar e r eady , tr y playing along with the song
on the keyboar d. The melody disappears and you
can hear the notes you play .
T r y playing the melody to “Mickey Mouse Mar ch”
kar aoke style.
How did y ou do? If it was too har d to play , tr y
playing it at a slower tempo (the song’ s speed).
3 “One, two, thr ee, four!”. T ry starting the
song like this.
P r ess the red [S T OP] button to stop the song.
T ap the [T AP] button four times like this . “ One,
two , three , four”.
Did the song play at the speed y ou tapped?
Is this an easier tempo to play along with? Y ou
can also use the TEMP O [SLOW ], [F AS T ] buttons
to adjust the tempo .
If you think it’ s a little too fast, pr ess the [SLOW]
button. Y ou will hear a “P ON”, and the tempo will
slow down a little.
If you think it’ s a little too slow , pr ess the [F AST]
button. Y ou will hear a “P ON”, and the tempo will
speed up a little.
One, two ,
thr ee, f our .
★The V OLUME [UP], [DO WN] buttons
P ress the V OLUME [UP] button, the “PON” sound you hear will be a little louder .
P ress the V OLUME [DOWN] button, the “PON” sound y ou hear will be a little sof ter .
• If you press the [UP] or [DO WN] button and you don’ t hear “PON”, the sound level is at its highest
or lo west setting and cannot be adjusted further .
• Simultaneously press the [UP] and [DO WN] buttons to set the v olume level to its maximum setting.
• The volume is set to its maximum setting ST ANDBY—ON switch is set to “ON”.
When you press the red [SONGS] b utton, the first
song in the song list, “W annabe” will start. The next time
you press it, the second song “ Mickey Mouse Marc h”,
starts, and so on.
After the tenth song in the list, “ Over the Rainbo w” , the
next song to be selected will be the f irst song in the list
“W annabe”.
• T o start playback from the beginning of the selected song,
press the red [STOP] button to stop playbac k, then press
the [SONGS] button to start playback of the song from the
beginning.
• If the song is in 3/4 time, tap the [T AP] button 3 times.
• If you tap the [T AP] button while the song is playing, the
song’ s tempo will adjust to the same speed that you tapped.
• If you tap the [T AP] button too slo wly, the tap function
will not operate. If you tap the [T AP] button too fast, the
tempo will be set to 240 beats per minute.
• The tempo can be adjusted between
q q
q q
q
=40-240.
• If you press the [SLO W] or [F AST] button and you don’ t
hear a “PON”, the tempo is at its highest or lowest setting
and cannot be set any faster or slow er .
• Simultaneously press the [SLO W], [F AST] buttons to re-
turn the tempo to its original setting.
• If the k eyboard is not played for one measure, the PSS-15
will play the melody again.
• When you press the [SONGS] button to select a song, the
PSS-15 will automatically select an instrument that
matches the song for you to play on the k eyboard.
Let’ s listen and play!
Inside the PSS-15, ther e ar e 10 songs . First, let’ s listen to the second song in
the SONGS list, “Mickey M ouse March”, and then try playing along with it.
T r y this one
f or fun!
Fun Fun Fun GUIDE
If you pr ess the gr een [B ANDS 2] button three
times , the thir d song, “Für Elise”, in the B ANDS 2
list will star t playing.
P ress the r ed [ST OP] button, and the band stops
playing.
1 Start “Für Elise”.
2 Become a band member
(piano/electric guitar , etc.)
T r y pr essing the yellow 1 button.
What kind of instrument do you hear?
Ev er y time you pr ess the 1 button, a differ ent
instrument plays . Use your ear to find the piano
sound, which is the first instrument in the y ellow
1 list (COMBO).
Ar e you f eeling like a pianist? See if you can play
along with the melody .
P ress the yellow 1 button and the sound you
just played on the keyboar d (PIANO) will change to
E GUIT AR, the second instrument in the yellow 1
list.
Ar e you feeling like a guitarist? See if y ou can
play along.
P ress the 1 button again and try playing the
SAXOPHONE, E B ASS, or PERCUSSION parts in the
group .
3 “One, two, three!” Start the band!
P ress the r ed [S T OP] button to stop the band.
T ap the [T AP] button thr ee times like this . “One ,
two , three”.
Did the band star t playing at the speed you
tapped?
Y ou can change the band’ s tempo , just like you
did f or the song, by using the TEMPO [SLOW],
[F AS T ] buttons .
Have fun playing percussion.
P r ess the yellow 1 button so that “P ercussion” is se-
lected, play on the keyboar d and you will hear many diff er-
ent per cussion instruments .
P r ess the green [B ANDS 3] button, and play the “S a-
fari” or “ Carnival” .
OK, ar e you feeling like a drummer? Let’ s play along with
the band per formance .
● Selecting normal instruments.
There are100 types of instrument sounds in the PSS-15. Let’s try to play some of the 25 normal
instrument sounds (shown on the panel).
Press the yellow 2 b utton once and the instrument tha t sounds will be the f irst instrument in the
2 INSTRUMENTS list (K eyboard/String).
Press the yellow 3 b utton once and the instrument tha t sounds will be the f irst instrument in the
3 INSTRUMENTS list (W ind & Mallet/Sound Effect).
The next time you press either of the b uttons, the next instrument in the list will be selected.
B ass Drum
Snar e
Rim Shot
Closed
Hi-hat
Open
Hi-hat
Click
Agogo
Low
Agogo
High
W ood Block
Low
Wood Block
High
m Sustain Piano m Ragtime Piano m Game Over m Piano
(Eff ect) (Phrase) (Funny) (Normal)
One, two , thr ee.
Inside the PSS-15 ther e ar e 30 differ ent kinds of band (accompaniment) per formances . In the B ANDS 1 list
you’ll find some gr eat rhy thms to play along with, B ANDS 2 has some nice classic pieces with melodies ,
and B ANDS 3 has some fun pieces to play along with.
First, let’ s listen to “Für Elise”, which is the thir d song in the B ANDS 2 list. Just as if you ar e a member of
a fiv e-piece band (COMBO), play along with the band.
T ry playing in
the band.
When you press the green [B ANDS 2] button, the f irst song in the
B ANDS 2 list, “ Music Box” will start. The next time you press, the
second song “ Gymnopedies” , starts, and so on. After the tenth song in
the list, “W altz” , the next song to be selected will be the f irst song in
the list “ Music Box”.
Press the green [B ANDS 1] button / [B ANDS 3] button, and in the
same manner , the first song in the B ANDS 1 list / BANDS 3 list will
start. Also, ev ery time you press the [BANDS 1] b utton / [BANDS 3]
button, the ne xt song in the list will start. The first song will be se-
lected after the tenth song in the list.
• The band performance will continue to repeat until the red [STOP] b utton
is pressed.
• T o start the band performance from the beginning of the selected perfor-
mance, press the red [ST OP] button to stop playback, then press the [BANDS
1] - [B ANDS 3] button to start playback of the performance from the be-
ginning.
• When you select a band performance, the tempo that matches that perfor-
mance will be automatically selected.
When you press the 1 button for the f irst time, the first instr ument
in the list will be selected. After that, every time you press the button,
the next instrument in the list will be selected. Y ou can select from fi ve
instruments (combo) in the 1 button list. T he combo is a preset band
composed of standard instruments.
After you select percussion, the next instrument selected will be
piano.
• If you press the yello w 1 , 2 or ,
3 button, the selected instrument will
sound and then you can play that instrument on the keyboar d .
• T ap the [T AP] button 4 times if the band performance is 4/4 time.
• If you tap the [T AP] button while the band performance is playing, the
performance tempo will adjust to the same speed that you tapped.
• If you tap the [T AP] button too slo wly, the tap function will not operate. If
you tap the [T AP] button too fast, the tempo will be set to 240 beats per
minute.
● Selecting v ariation instruments.
See the “ Instrument List” on the rev er se side.
All of the instruments listed on the panel hav e three variations (25 x 3 = 75 types).
Look at the instrument list and try to select and play some of the dif ferent types of instruments (Effect/Phrase/Funny).
T o select a variation instrument, press the yello w
button. Ev ery time you press the button,
Normal m Effect m Phrase m Funny m Normal m ...
v ar iations will be selected in that order .
For e xample, when the piano (Normal) is selected, and the
button is pressed,
will be selected in that order .
• When you press the b utton, the selected instrument will sound and then you can play the instrument.
T r y this one
f or fun!
★The ST ANDBY — ON switc h.
Slide the S T ANDBY —ON switch to the “ON” position and y ou
will be gr eeted with a fanfare and can play PSS-15. Slide the
switch to the “S T ANDBY ” position to turn the PSS-15 off .
• If you leave the switch “ON”...
If the switch is left “ON”, the PSS-15 will sound an alert. Mak e sure you
slide the switch to the “ST ANDBY” so that you don’t waste battery po wer .
If the switch is still left “ON”, and the k eyboard is not touched for a period
of 10 minutes, a confirmation alert will sound. If the keyboard is still not
touched, the alert will sound ev ery 10 minutes.