What's Asian Beat

Asian Beat is one of the biggest amateur band contests held throughout many regions in Asia. It starts out from Area Heat in participating countries and regions. Each winner at Area Heat finals can proceed onto the Grand Final, where they will perform together on the same stage and compete to be the top of amateur bands in Asia.

Yamaha Corporation started this event as “Band Alert” in 1998, renamed to “Asian Beat” in 2001. In the past years, worldwide famous players were the judges such as Nathan East, Wes Borland, Tommy Aldridge, Sonny Emory, Billy Sheehan, James LoMenzo and Akira Jimbo. For further information, you can take a look at the history on this website.

Now in its 17th year, "Asian Beat 2014" will be held in seven areas.
The theme for this year's competition is "acoustic sound." Asian Beat 2014 is open to any band playing in any musical genre so long as they feature at least one acoustic guitar in their lineup.
This year each participating country will also provide updates via social media on the progress of the event from the "Area Heat" stage through to the "Area Final". We would like to invite a variety of bands from each country to take part.
Take the first step and sign up! (Ask at a representative of Yamaha in your country for details on participating.)

• May—August

  Applications for Area Heats accepted and area heats held. (Contests for Area Finals decided.)

• August—September

  Area Finals held. (Contestants for Grand Final decided.)

• October

  Fan voting for Grand Final contestants.

• November 16

  Grand Final held.