Yamaha Portatone Auto Accompaniment Style Mode, Selecting a Style and Playing the Accompaniment

AUTO ACCOMPANIMENT —

THE STYLE MODE

The Style mode provides dynamic rhythm/accompaniment patterns — as well as voice settings appropriate for each pattern — for various popular music styles.

A total of 100 different styles are available, in several different categories. Each style is made up of separate “sections” — Intro, Main A and B (with 4 Fill-ins), and Ending — letting you call up different accompaniment sections as you perform.

The auto accompaniment features that are built into the rhythms add the excitement of instrumental backing to your performance, letting you control the accompaniment by the chords you play. Auto accompaniment effectively splits the keyboard into two sections: The upper is used for playing a melody line, and the lower (set by default to keys F#2 and lower) is for the auto accompaniment function.

The Style mode also has the powerful Chord Guide features, which include three sophisticated learn- ing and performance tools: Dictionary, Smart, and EZ Chord. The Dictionary and Smart functions (pages 62, 64) provide powerful, easy-to-use tools for learning chords and chord relationships. EZ Chord (page 66) lets you record chord progressions for an entire song, and then step through the chords by simply pressing a single key in the auto accompaniment section of the keyboard.

SELECTING A STYLE AND PLAYING THE ACCOMPANIMENT

1 Select the Style mode.

Press the STYLE button.

Indicates Style

mode is selected Style name and number

STYLE 0018BtPop1

MEASURE 001 116TEMPO

2 Select the desired style number.

Use the numeric keypad. The basic categories of styles and their numbers are shown at the left of the panel. A complete list of the available styles is given on page 111.

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