Radio Shack MD-1600 owner manual Standard Fingering

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Standard Fingering

The standard fingering method uses standard formations of 3–4 notes, and lets the experienced musician play a wider variety of accompaniment chords. You can play these 15 chord types on your MD-1600, in any key, using the standard fingering method.

Major (M)	Minor (m)	Augmented	Suspended 4th	Dominant 7th (7)
		(aug)	(sus4)
Minor 7th (m7)	Major 7th (M7)	Minor Half-	Major Half	Dominant
		Diminished	Diminished (7-5)	Suspended 4th
		(m7-5)		(7sus4)
Major 9th (add9)	Minor 9th	Minor/Major 7th	Diminished	Diminished 7th
	(madd9)	(mM7)		(dim7)

Notes:

•To produce a simple variation of a 7, m7, M7, mM7, add9, or madd9 chord, you can omit the finger positions shown in parentheses (on the keys).

•When producing an aug, 7-5, or dim7 chord, the lowest note you play determines the root of the chord. Be sure your fingering correctly defines the root you want.

•The diagrams above show only one possible fingering position for each chord. It is possible to play a chord using several different positions. For example, these three fingering positions produce the same C chord.

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