Playing Rhythms

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.

C

Cm

Cdim
Caug *1Csus4C7 *2
Cm7 *2Cmaj7 *2Cm7￿5
C7 ￿5 *1C7sus4Cadd9
Cmadd9CmM7 *2Cdim7 *1

NOTE

•See the “Fingered Chord Chart” on page A-2 for details on playing chords with other roots.

*1: Inverted fingerings cannot be used. The lowest note is the root.

*2: The same chord can be played without pressing the 5th G.

NOTE

• Except for the chords specified in note*1 above,

■FULL RANGE CHORD

This accompaniment method makes it possible to play a total of 38 chord variations: the 15 available with FINGERED plus 23 additional variations. The keyboard interprets any input of three or more keys that matches a FULL RANGE CHORD pattern to be a chord. Any multi-key input that is not a FULL RANGE CHORD pattern is interpreted as melody play. Because of this, there is no need for a separate accompaniment keyboard, and the entire keyboard from end-to-end can be used for both melody and chords.

FULL RANGE CHORD Accompaniment Keyboard and Melody Keyboard

Accompaniment keyboard/Melody keyboard

Chords Recognized by This Piano

The following table identifies patterns that are recognized as chords by FULL RANGE CHORD.

Pattern Type

 

 

Number of Chord Variations

FINGERED

The 15 chord patterns shown under

“FINGERED” on page E-12.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

23 standard chord fingerings. The

 

following are examples of the 23

 

chords available with C as the bass

 

note.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Standard

C6 • Cm6 • C69

 

 

 

 

 

 

A￿

 

 

B￿

 

Fingerings

 

 

D￿

 

•

D

•

E

•

F

•

 

G

•

•

 

 

C

C

C

C

 

C

C

C

 

 

 

B

 

 

•

D￿m

• Dm

• Fm •

Gm

•Am

• B￿m

 

 

 

C

C

 

 

 

 

C

C

C

 

C

 

C

 

Ddim

• A￿7

• F7

• Fm7

• Gm7 •

 

A

￿add9

 

 

 

 

C

 

C

C

C

C

 

 

 

 

C

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

C

Example: To play the chord C major and E .

1

E G C

EG C

inverted fingerings (i.e. playing E-G-C or G-C-E

instead of C-E-G) will produce the same chords as

the standard fingering.

• Except for the exception specified in note*2 above,

all of the keys that make up a chord must be

2

NOTE

1 ..... Chord C

2 ..... Chord CE

pressed. Failure to press even a single key will not

play the desired FINGERED chord.

•If there are more than six semitones between the lowest note and the next note to the right, the lowest note is interpreted as a bass note.

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