Radio Shack 42-4058 owner manual Using Auto Accompaniment, Concert Chord

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Using Auto Accompaniment

• You can use the keyboard’s rhythm controls

(INTRO/ENDING 1 or 2, VARIATION/FILL-

IN 1 or 2, and SYNCHRO/FILL-IN NEXT)

with all three types of auto accompaniment.

• After you press the auto accompaniment

keys while using concert chord or standard

automatically resumes at the end of the current measure.

When you press another variation button (VARIATION/FILL-IN 2 while you are playing variation 1, for example), the keyboard starts to play the newly-selected variation and does not insert a fill-in.

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To switch to the other variation of the selected auto-rhythm during play, press SYNCHRO/FILL-IN NEXT while the rhythm is playing. The fill-in pattern of the current variation plays, then fill-in of the other variation, and the rhythm switches to the other variation.

fingering, the keyboard plays the same

chord until you press other accompaniment

keys to play a different chord or press

START/STOP.

• When you select Concert Chord or

Standard Fingering mode, the range of the

accompaniment keys is set by the split

point. See “Using SPLIT” on Page 8.

Concert Chord

You can press any labeled note(s) to the right of the lowest note in the chord to produce a minor, a dominant seventh, or minor seventh chord.

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To end the selected rhythm with a special flourish, press INTRO/ENDING 1 or 2 while the auto-rhythm is playing. The keyboard plays a special ending of the selected type (1 or 2), then automatically stops the rhythm.

The ending pattern starts immediately if you press the button before the second beat of the current measure. If you press after the second beat, the ending pattern starts from the next measure.

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Using Auto Accompaniment

The 18 keys on the left side of the keyboard with note labels above them are called accompaniment keys.

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2.Within 5 seconds, enter a number from 0 0 0 (softest) to 1 2 7 (loudest) on the keypad. The numbers appear as you press the keys.

Or, press ACCOMP VOLUME then repeatedly press – or + to select the next lowest or highest accompaniment volume setting.

You can set the keyboard to play three different types of auto accompaniment using the accompaniment keys. ￿

•Concert Chord — lets you play chords on the accompaniment keys using chord formations of from one to four notes. The number of keys you press determines the type of chord that plays (see “Concert Chord”).

•Standard Fingering — lets you play chords on the accompaniment keys using standard chord formations of three or four notes (see “Standard Fingering” on Page 11).

•Full-Range Chord — lets you play the melody using the entire keyboard while the keyboard plays accompaniment based on your auto-rhythm selection.

The auto-accompaniment patterns consist of four parts: chord 1, chord 2, bass, and rhythm. You can delete any of the parts by using the mixer function. See “Using the Mixer” on Page 12.

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The keyboard lets you adjust the volume of your accompaniment separately from the overall volume of the keyboard.

1.Press ACCOMP VOLUME. The current accompaniment volume setting appears.

To reset the accompaniment volume to its default value of 87, press ACCOMP VOLUME then press – and + at the same time.

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The concert chord method lets beginning key- board players easily select and play a chord.

The number of accompaniment keys you press determines the type of chord that plays. This chart shows the chord type that plays when you press one, two, three, or four accompaniment keys at the same time.

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