Using the CASIO CHORD system
The CASIO CHORD system lets you easily play the four main types of chords. Play of chords is simplified as shown in the chart below.
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Pressing one | Major | C |
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Pressing two | Minor | Cm |
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Pressing | Seventh | C7 |
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Pressing four | Minor | Cm7 |
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❚NOTE
•The bottom (leftmost) note that you play determines the name of the chord. If the bottom note is a C for example, the keyboard produces a C chord.
•When pressing more than one accompaniment key, it makes no difference whether the keys to the right of the bottom note are white or black.
To play a CASIO CHORD auto-accompaniment
1. Use the POWER/MODE selector to select CASIO CHORD.
2. Select an
3. Start play of the rhythm.
•If you want to start play of the normal rhythm pattern, press START/STOP.
•You can also use synchro start (page
4.Press either one or up to four keys on the accompaniment keyboard, and the corresponding accompaniment starts to play automatically.
Chord name
5. Continue pressing different keys on the accompaniment keyboard to play your chord progression.
6. To stop
Using standard fingerings
The FINGERED mode lets you play a wider variety of chords. In this mode, you can start play of an accompaniment pattern by pressing three or four of the accompaniment keyboard keys.
This keyboard is capable of recognizing 15 different chords. The following shows the fingerings of these chords with a root of C. Note that you can omit the fifth notes (which are shown inside parentheses in the illustrations below) to produce 7, m7, M7, add9, madd9, and mM7 chords.
C | Cm | Cdim |
Caug (*1)Csus4C7
Cm7CM7Cm75
C75 (*1)C7sus4 Cadd9
Cmadd9 CmM7Cdim7 (*1)
*1 With this chords, the lowest note in your fingering is always used as the root. Make sure that your fingering correctly identifies the root you want to use.