Playing Rhythms

How to Play Chords

The way you finger chords depends on the current chord mode.

■Normal

In this mode there is no auto accompaniment, so you can play all of piano’s keys for standard-fingering chords or melody notes.

■CASIO CHORD

This method of chord play makes it possible for anyone to easily play chords, regardless of previous musical knowledge and experience. The following describes the CASIO CHORD “Accompaniment keyboard” and “Melody keyboard”, and tells you how to play CASIO CHORDs.

CASIO CHORD Accompaniment Keyboard and Melody Keyboard

Accompaniment

Melody keyboard

keyboard

 

IMPORTANT!

•The accompaniment keyboard can be used for playing chords only. No sound will be produced if you try playing single melody notes on the accompaniment keyboard.

•The split point (page E-7) is the point that separates the Auto Accompaniment area and the melody area of the keyboard. You can change the location of the split point, which also changes the sizes of the keyboard areas.

Chord Types

CASIO CHORD accompaniment lets you play four types of chords with minimal fingering.

 

Chord Types

 

 

 

 

Example
Major chords

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Press one accompaniment key.

C Major (C)

 

 

 

 

Note that the chord produced

 

C C#DE ￿ E F F#GA￿ A B￿ B C C#DE￿

E F

when

you

press

an

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

accompaniment keyboard key

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

does

not change octave,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

regardless of which key you use

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

to play it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Minor chords (m)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To play a minor chord, keep the

C minor (Cm)

major chord key depressed and

 

C C#DE ￿ E F F#GA￿ A B￿ B C C#DE￿

E F

press any other accompaniment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

keyboard key located to the right

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

of the major chord key.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seventh chords (7)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To play a seventh chord, keep the

C seventh (C7)

major chord key depressed and

 

C C#DE ￿ E F F#GA￿ A B￿ B C C#DE￿

E F

press

any

other

two

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

accompaniment keyboard keys

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

located to the right of the major

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

chord key.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Minor seventh chords (m7)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To play a minor seventh chord,

C minor seventh

keep the major chord key

(Cm7)

 

 

 

 

depressed and press any other

 

C C#DE ￿ E F F#GA￿ A B￿ B C C#DE￿

E F

three

accompaniment keyboard

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

keys located to the right of the

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

major chord key.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOTE

•It makes no difference whether you press black or white keys to the right of a major chord key when playing minor and seventh chords.

■FINGERED

In this mode, you specify chords by playing them as you would on a piano, inside the accompaniment keyboard range. To specify a C-chord, you would play C-E-G.

FINGERED Accompaniment Keyboard and Melody Keyboard

Accompaniment

Melody keyboard

keyboard

 

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