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Chord progressions for Yamaha Chord Looper

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Hey, hey, more free content for Yamaha arranger keyboards!

The Yamaha Genos and PSR-SX900 keyboards feature Chord Looper — a chord sequencer that cycles through a user-defined chord progression. Yamaha provides a few example Chord Looper Banks, but folks always wish for more.

So, I collected chord progressions from various public sources and created Chord Looper Banks (and Chord Looper Data files). My Chord Looper Banks have the most common chord progressions and some not-so-common progressions. All are in relatively easy keys and await your creativity.

As an added bonus, I included Java source code for the program that translates Extended ChordPro (CHO text files) to Chord Looper Data (CLD) files. If you don’t care about nerdy stuff and just want to play, then stick with the Chord Looper Banks (CLB) and Chord Looper Data files. 🙂 You don’t need to know anything about Java to use the CLBs and CLDs.

Download the Chord Loops (v1) ZIP file

Check out the README.TXT (in the ZIP file) for more information.

Copyright © 2024 Paul J. Drongowski

More new phrases for MMS

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If you enjoyed the last batch of phrases for Yamaha Mobile Music Sequencer, here’s some more! All of the phrases are taken from funky, jazzy styles on the PSR-S950 arranger keyboard.

FunkPoppin ZIP
FunkPopRock ZIP
JazzFunk ZIP
JazzPop ZIP
KoolFunk ZIP

These loops are free and ready for download — 250+ phrases for drum, bass, electric piano, guitar and brass. The phrases are in YMS2 format files. Just copy these files to your iCloud Mobile Music Sequencer directory and you’re ready to go. Under OS X, the iCloud MMS mobile documents directory is:

~/Library/Mobile Documents/XXXX~yamahamusic~mobilemusicseq/Documents

The easiest way to get there in the Finder is to hold down the Option key and select “Library” in the “Go” menu. This will take you directly to your application support library directory. The “XXXX” in the path name above is some crufty identifier generated by OS X and will vary from user to user. Navigate down through the “Mobile Documents” directory until you reach the MMS documents. This is where you should put the YMS2 phrase files.

Also, don’t forget about the Music Gallery where you can find additional MIDI, PSR/Tyros style and MP3 content.

If you want to create your own original MMS phrases from MIDI, check out this tutorial. Once you’ve gone through the process a few times, you’ll be able to translate your own MIDI phrases on autopilot!