Playing the Digital Keyboard

Using the Metronome

The metronome lets you play and practice along with a steady beat to help keep you on tempo.

Start/Stop

1.Press 5.

This starts the metronome.

This pattern changes with each beat.

2.Press 5 again to stop the metronome.

Changing the Beats Per Measure

You can configure the metronome to use a bell sound for the first beat of each measure of the song you are playing.

•You can specify 0, or a value from 2 to 6 as the number of beat per measure.

•When playing a built-in song, the beats per measure setting (which determines when the bell sounds) is configured automatically for the currently selected song.

1.Hold down 5 until the beats per measure setting screen appears on the display.

B e a t

•If you do not perform any operation for a few seconds after the beats per measure setting screen appears, the

display will return to the screen displayed before you pressed 5.

2.Use br (10-key) to enter the number of beats per measure.

•The bell will not sound if you specify 0 for this setting. In this case, all beats are indicated by a click sound. This setting lets you practice with a steady beat, without worrying how many beats there are in each measure.

Changing the Metronome Tempo

Use the following procedure to change the tempo of the metronome.

1.Press bm.

Use y (slower) and t (faster) to change the tempo setting. Holding down either button changes the setting at high speed.

•Pressing t and y at the same time will initialize the tempo setting in accordance with the currently selected song or rhythm.

•Pressing bm causes the tempo value to flash on the display. While the tempo value is flashing, you can use br (10-key) to change it.

Note that you must input leading zeros, so 89 is input as 089.

•The tempo value will stop flashing if you do not perform any operation for a short while.

Tempo value (flashes)

Changing the Metronome Sound Volume

The metronome volume setting is changed automatically with the volume level of the currently selected Auto Accompaniment or song. The metronome volume cannot be adjusted independently.

•For information about changing the Auto Accompaniment volume, see page E-42.

•For information about changing the song volume, see page E-30.

•You cannot adjust the balance between the metronome and note volume during Auto Accompaniment and built-in tune play.

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