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A valuable tool for music educators, the Yamaha HD-300 Harmony Director instructional keyboard offers powerful ear training with dynamic features that make intonation and rhythmic learning more effective and engaging for your students. The HD-300’s straightforward controls make ensemble rehearsal sessions easier and more efficient, while its recording function gives students immediate feedback to improve their performances. As a band director, Yamaha’s HD-300 Assistant iOS companion app makes your job easier by allowing you to use the HD-300 from anywhere in the classroom, while expanding the keyboard’s functionality. The app also functions as a standalone tuner.





The HD-300 comes loaded with 167 musical examples from the Japan Band Clinic Band Method book (available separately) so your students can hear chord progressions, rhythmic exercises, and more to help them play in time and on pitch, while fostering their ability to contextualize their proper place in an arrangement. Sweetwater has been serving the music education market for decades, and we’re always excited about an innovative training tool that accelerates learning by supporting efficient practice. The Yamaha HD-300 Harmony Director checks all the boxes, and does so at an extremely affordable price. For school administrators, outfitting a lab with a fleet of HD-300s just makes sense.





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HD-300 Assistant iOS mobile app for music educators:


Provides remote control over HD-300 functions


Demonstrates interference beats and chord balance


Tuner for comparing against player’s pitch


Chord Detector analyzes the chord currently playing


Rhythm Assistant for demonstrating correct rhythm


Yamaha HD-300 Harmony Director Instructional Keyboard Features:


Streamlined, efficient, user-friendly interface


Recording function for instant performance feedback


Time shift recording with Sound Back setting (short/long)


Rhythm style selection (9 styles)


Tempo LED indicator


61-note keyboard, C-C


Simplified, 32-button control panel


LCD display with contrast adjustment


FM and AWM Tone Generators


Polyphony: FM: 8 notes; AWM: 48 notes


Voices: FM: 9 (Woodwind, Brass, Organ categories); AWM: 70 (Piano/Others category)


Onboard metronome


Transposition: 12 semitones; Octave Shift: 4 octaves


Multiple Temperaments


167 onboard Song examples


HD-300 Assistant iOS mobile companion app