Make Yourself Heard: Blog Holiday Gift Guide

The holidays are here! So if you’re ready to help your loved ones make themselves heard, here are some suggestions from Yamaha that are sure to please the musician or music lover in your life.

GUITARS

C40II Full-Size Classical Guitar

The C40II is the perfect starter acoustic guitar. This affordable full-size nylon-string classical model offers excellent tone and easy playability, with quality construction that ensures durability, making it a real bargain for beginners and budding guitar students alike.

GigMaker Deluxe Acoustic Guitar Package

Our GigMaker starter kits incorporate everything you need to start playing immediately — a Yamaha guitar, along with a protective nylon gig bag, strap, digital clip-on tuner, and a supply of picks. The GigMaker Deluxe acoustic guitar package includes a premium solid-top steel-string FG800J guitar for superior tone and projection.

Revstar RSS02T Electric Guitar

Inspired by iconic café racer motorcycles, Yamaha Revstar electric guitars are sure to help the guitarist in your life stand out from the crowd. They have chambered mahogany bodies, rosewood fingerboards, jumbo frets and gloss finishes — even ivory-colored tuners that complement the unique headstock shape. With its custom tailpiece and dual P90-style single coil “soapbar” pickups (nicknamed because they look like bars of soap), the RSS02T model has a distinctive “old-school” vibe. It offers five-way pickup switching and a Focus Switch push/pull tone control that adds a passive boost similar to that of overwound pickups. Plus, four new color options were just added, giving the Revstar line a more striking look than ever.

Pacifica Standard Plus Electric Guitar

Yamaha Pacifica guitars have long been renowned for their versatility, making them a favorite among top session players and one of the most popular electric guitars worldwide. The newest line of Pacificas released in 2024 raised the bar further still, utilizing advanced technology that incorporates 3D modeling to maximize body resonance, along with Reflectone pickups co-developed with famed audio manufacturer Rupert Neve Designs. The Pacifica Standard Plus model delivers impressive tonal balance and a smooth sound. It’s available in several different finishes and has a comfortable contoured alder body and a slim, C-shape maple neck with medium frets and a rosewood or maple fingerboard.

TRBX304 Electric Bass Guitar

Yamaha TRBX basses are high-quality yet affordable. The TRBX304 model has a sculpted, ultra-comfortable solid mahogany body and a five-piece maple/mahogany neck for strength and stability. Active EQ circuitry, coupled with dual ceramic humbucking pickups, enables you to easily dial in a wide range of stage-ready tones. There’s even an EQ switch with five presets so you can instantly go from locking in with the drummer to taking a solo, or from playing slap bass to using finger or pick technique.

KEYBOARDS

EZ-310 Portable Keyboard

The Yamaha EZ-310 Portable Keyboard is an extraordinary beginner’s keyboard that has 61 lighted, touch-sensitive keys for easy learning and dynamic playing. Even if you’ve never touched a keyboard, the EZ-310 makes it simple to start with keys that literally light your way — no need to read music, just follow the lights! It comes with over 150 songs that you can learn step by step, at your own pace. You can also select from a menu of hundreds of musical instrument Voices that sound stunningly realistic.

P-145BT Portable Digital Piano

The P-145BT Portable Digital Piano has 88 weighted keys and is designed for easy playability. It offers Bluetooth^® audio and ten different Voices, including strings, electric pianos, organs, harpsichord, and vibraphone, as well as the sound of a Yamaha concert grand piano, with a damper resonance function that reproduces the rich sound you hear when pressing the damper pedal. And, since this is a digital piano, it doesn’t require tuning!

SEQTRAK Mobile Music Ideastation

SEQTRAK is a music creation station that allows you to capture ideas quickly with its lightning-fast, all-in-one system that includes drums, synths, sampling, and sequencing, all packed into a portable lightweight design. With SEQTRAK, you can easily create original music, then refine it with deep editing using a free smartphone app. You can also quickly shift octaves while playing, perform quantized transitions and extend pattern length — even use external MIDI devices to trigger animations, adding dynamic visuals to your performances. And when you’re ready, you can share your sounds, collaborate with other artists, and connect with fans around the world using SEQTRAK’s powerful performance features and video creator.

DRUMS

FGDP-50 Finger Drum Pad

Yamaha FGDP Series electronic finger drums allow anyone to drum with their fingertips, anywhere, any time — no drums, no sticks needed. The FGDP-50 provides 18 ergonomically designed pads and eight assignable RGB pads loaded with 48 preset kits and 1,500 drum, percussion and instrument samples, as well as an internal speaker and a USB terminal that allows you to capture your performances and play music stored in a connected flash drive. There’s even an auto-accompaniment function that plays bass, guitar and other instruments alongside your performance. The FGDP-50 is an all-in-one solution that makes it easy to play any genre of music with more expression.

DTX6K5-M Electronic Drum Kit

Housed within a rack system that enables a wide variety of configurations and additional components, the DTX6K5-M is an excellent choice for drummers looking for a kit that grows with their musical progress. The four tunable REMO two-ply mesh heads provide playing surfaces with outstanding noise reduction, durability and feel when hit. The snare pad features three sensors that precisely respond to delicate stick work, and the three-zone cymbal pads offer independent edge, bow and bell triggering, as well as choke and mute functionality. And the powerful DTX-PRO “brain” delivers standout sounds across many musical genres, while providing vital practice functions.

Stage Custom Hip Drum Kit

The Stage Custom Hip drum kit has a small footprint that makes it ideal for teaching, rehearsal, recording, and performing in tight spaces such as small club venues or home studios. Its dimensions reflect its compact design: a punchy 20″ x 8″ bass drum (suitable for use on its own or even as a subkick for larger bass drums); a 13″ x 5″ snare drum; a 10″ x 5″ tom-tom; and a multi-use 13″ x 8″ floor tom, which provides a snare bed with an on/off throw that allows drummers to bring different styles of playing to life. It’s portable and lightweight too: in fact, the entire Stage Custom Hip drum set can easily be packed up in a single over-sized bass drum bag.

Tour Custom Drum Kit

Designed for the working drummer, Yamaha Tour Custom drum kits are used by some of the world’s top touring artists. They sound great and play well in any musical style, with all-maple drum shells that provide a warm, bright tone. Tour Custom drum kits are available in six different size variations and five different satin lacquer finishes, all with an extra thin coating that maximizes the resonance of the maple wood. In addition, the included Yamaha Enhanced Sustain System (YESS) mounts are designed to minimize contact between the shell and the mount to deliver a wider dynamic range and longer sustain.

EAD10 Electronic Acoustic Drum Module

The EAD10 instantly transforms any acoustic drum set into a hybrid kit. Simply mount its sensor unit (which contains a pair of high-quality condenser microphones and a kick drum trigger) on the bass drum hoop. The microphones capture the entire kit, and the kick trigger can play any of the hundreds of drum or percussion sounds built into the EAD10 module. In addition, multi-zone snare and tom trigger inputs on the module can accept the output from a clip-on drum trigger or drum pad, making it possible to layer electronic sounds with the acoustic sound of the drums, or to expand your acoustic kit with electronic percussion, cymbals, or effects.

WINDS

SILENT Brass^™ System 

Kids love playing brass instruments like trumpet and trombone, which is why they are among the most popular instruments in school music programs. But, as every parent knows (or eventually finds out), brass instruments can be very loud when you get up and close and personal. Yamaha provides the perfect solution with its revolutionary SILENT Brass system, which consists of a specially designed mute fitted with a pickup that connects to a small electronic “personal studio” unit that clips onto the player’s belt. Versions are available for trumpet, cornet, Flugelhorn, trombone, French horn, euphonium, and tuba. A great gift for kids and parents alike!

YDS-120 Digital Saxophone

Our YDS-120 digital saxophone makes sax playing more accessible than ever before. It eliminates restrictions on where and when you can play, while offering the same tonal diversity, deep low notes and delicate highs of an acoustic instrument. It comes loaded with 56 soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone saxophone Voices, plus an additional 17 non-sax sounds — all delivered with the variety of expression only a saxophone can provide. It’s easy to play, too, with the same key configuration as an acoustic sax, plus a breath sensor that detects the pressure of your breath. The YDS-120 can be used with either a USB power source or with batteries, and it comes with a headphone terminal and an Aux in jack. It’s also fully compatible with a free smartphone app (requires connection with USB cable to device) that further expands its performance with intuitive instrument settings and sound editing.

YDS-150 Digital Saxophone

The YDS-150 digital saxophone allows anyone to play the saxophone anytime, anywhere. Though it has a lot in common with acoustic saxophones, it offers numerous innovations such as silent practice capability and 73 preset voices that include both standard sax sounds and non-saxophone sounds. And with the use of a free smartphone app, you can control everything from pitch transposition to key response — even create custom sounds. Best of all, any beginner or pro can pick up the YDS-150 and make a great sound right away. It feels just like an acoustic sax since it uses a similar key layout, mouthpiece, ligature and a synthetic reed. And like an acoustic sax, it even has a brass bell that provides the player with physical feedback similar to that of an acoustic instrument.

AUDIO

True X Speaker 1A Portable Speaker

The size of the True X Speaker 1A may be small, but its expressive range is huge — in fact, this handheld powerhouse packs all the high-quality sound of a full-sized speaker into a small footprint. Its exterior design fits and enhances any interior, lending style and great sound wherever you go. And, since it’s wireless and has IP67 grade waterproof performance, it can be placed anywhere, even outdoors. You can pair the True X Speaker 1A with any Bluetooth device or use it with a Yamaha True X sound bar to add rear surround sound anywhere in your room.

YH-L500A Wireless Headphones

Grab some popcorn. There may be no better way to enjoy your favorite movies, TV shows and music this season than with YH-L500A wireless over-ear headphones. Featuring exclusive Yamaha Sound Field technology that immerses you in cinema-like sound, the YH-L500A can be paired with all your Bluetooth-enabled devices, including your phone, tablet, computer, or TV. It’s exceptionally lightweight too — only 9.3 ounces — and offers a fatigue-free fit, making it the perfect companion when you’re ready to do some serious binge-watching.

For more information about these and other great Yamaha music products, click here.