Casio WK6500E1B Selecting a Chord Fingering Mode

Using Auto Accompaniment

						■ Fingered 1, 2, 3
	Selecting a Chord Fingering Mode
						With these three chord fingering modes, you play chords on
While Auto Accompaniment is playing, you use the chord						the chord keyboard using their normal chord fingerings. Some
keyboard to specify the chord root and type. The area of the						chord forms are abbreviated, and can be fingered with one or
keyboard to the left of the split point (page E-17) is the chord						two keys. For information about the types of chords you can
keyboard. The illustration below shows the chord keyboard						finger and their fingerings, see the “Fingering Guide” (page
range under WK-6500 initial default settings.						E-124).
		Chord keyboard				Fingered 1 : Play the component notes of the chord on the
						keyboard.
				Melody Keyboard
						Fingered 2 : Unlike Fingered 1, 6th input is not possible with
						this mode.
						Fingered 3 : Unlike Fingered 1, this mode allows input of
						fraction chords with the lowest keyboard note as
						the bass note.
You can select from among the following five chord fingering						■ CASIO Chord
modes.						With “CASIO Chord”, you can use simplified fingerings to play
1: Fingered 1						the four types of chords described below.
2: Fingered 2						Chord Type		Example
3: Fingered 3						Major Chords	C (C Major)
4: CASIO Chord
						Press one key, whose note		C C#DEb E F F#GAbABb B C C#DEb E F
5: Full Range						corresponds to the chord	Note
							name
	To select a chord fingering mode					name.
						• To play C Major, press any
1. Hold down the L-18 (ACCOMP ON/OFF) button						C key in the chord keyboard.
						The octave of the note does
		until the chord fingering mode selection screen				not matter.
		shown below appears on the display.				Minor Chords	Cm (C minor)
						Press the chord keyboard key		C C#DEb E F F#GAbABb B C C#DEb E F
						that corresponds to the major
						chord, while also pressing one
						other chord keyboard key to
						the right.
						Seventh Chords	C7 (C seventh)
						Press the chord keyboard key		C C#DEb E F F#GAbABb B C C#DEb E F
						that corresponds to the major
						chord, while also pressing two
						other chord keyboard keys to
					Chord fingering mode	the right.
2. Use the dial or R-14 (–, +) buttons to select a						Minor Seventh Chords	Cm7 (C minor seventh)
						Press the chord keyboard key		C	C#DEb E F F#GAbABb B C C#DEb E F
		chord fingering mode.				that corresponds to the major
3. Press the L-18 (ACCOMP ON/OFF) button or the						chord, while also pressing
						three other chord keyboard
		R-15 (EXIT) button.				keys to the right.
			• This exits the chord fingering mode selection screen.			When pressing more than one chord keyboard key, it makes
						no difference whether the additional keys are white or black.
						■ Full Range Chord
						With this chord fingering mode, you can use the full range of
						the keyboard to play chords and the melody. For information
						about the types of chords you can finger and their fingerings,
						see the “Fingering Guide” (page E-124).

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