Chord Types

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

Chord Types

 

 

Example

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Major chords

C Major (C)

Major chord names are marked above

 

CC#DE E FF#GA A B B CC#DE E F

the keys of the accompaniment key-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

board. Note that the chord produced

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

when you press an accompaniment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

keyboard does not change octave, re-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

gardless of which key you use to play

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Minor chords (m)

C minor (Cm)

To play a minor chord, keep the ma-

 

CC#DE E FF#GA A B B CC#DE E F

jor chord key depressed and press any

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

other accompaniment keyboard key

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

located to the right of the major chord

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

key.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seventh chords (7)

C seventh (C7)

To play a seventh chord, keep the

 

CC#DE E FF#GA A B B CC#DE E F

major chord key depressed and press

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

any other two accompaniment key-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

board keys located to the right of the

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

major chord key.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Minor seventh chords (m7)

C minor seventh (Cm7)

To play a minor seventh chord, keep

 

CC#DE E FF#GA A B B CC#DE E F

the major chord key depressed and

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

press any other 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

FINGERED provides you with a total of 15 different chord types. The following describes the FINGERED “Accompaniment keyboard” and “Melody keyboard”, and tells you how to play a C-root chord using

FINGERED.

FINGERED 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.

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C

Cm

Cdim

Caug *1

Csus4

C7 *2

Cm7 *2

Cmaj7 *2

Cm7-5

C7-5 *1

C7sus4

Cadd9 *2

Cmadd9 *2

CmM7 *2

Cdim7 *1

See the “Fingered Chord Chart” on page A-6 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.

❚ NOTES ❚

•Except for the chords specified in note*1 above, 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 pressed. Failure to press even a single key will not play the desired FINGERED chord.

■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

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