Roland FR-2b owner manual Pitch-related functions, Song function

Using the metronome

After setting the metronome parameters to your liking, you can start using the metronome:

(4)Press the [METRONOME÷INC] H button (it lights) to start the metronome.

(5)Press it again to switch the metronome back off.

Pitch-related functions

Transpose function

The FR-2/FR-2b contains a Transpose function that allows you to change the key of the music you are playing. The advantage of this system is that you can play a song in E major (for example), while using the fingering of the C major scale (for example). This may come in handy when you are used to playing a given song in one key and suddenly need to play it in a different key. Let’s look at an example:

This is what you play…

Transpose

…and this is how it sounds.

(1)Press and hold the [SET] E register until it starts flash- ing.

The Treble keyboard can now be used to select the desired function.

(2)Press the A1 key or button “3”. See p. 18 for the location.

The [SET] E register now flashes rapidly, and the Treble keyboard can once again be used to play notes.

(3)Use the [DEC] and [INC] H buttons to set the desired interval.

You can also use registers [1]~[8] F to set this parameter, in which case you may have to press the corre-

sponding register twice to obtain the setting marked with an “*” in the table below. The “*” symbol represents sharp signs (#) and is indicated by the FR-2/FR-2b by means of a flashing register. If a Treble register flashes, you therefore know that you are transposing to a “black” key.

Transpose

V-Accordion r

Using the metronome

The setting range is –6~0~5 (where “0” means that no transposition is used). The value refers to the interval. This can be calculated as follows:

•In what key do you want to play? (This is your “0” value.) Example→ C major

•What key does the song use? Example→ E major

•How many semitones do you need to “shift” the notes? Example→ [C#, D, Eb, E]= 4 up, so register [7].

(4)Press the [SET] register twice to leave the FR-2/FR-2b’s

FUNCTION mode.

Note: This parameter is reset when you switch off the FR-2/FR-2b.

Transposing the Treble keyboard in octave steps

The parameter discussed here allows you to transpose the Treble accordion or Orchestra section one octave up or down.

(5)Simultanesouly press the [SET] E and [1] (+, one octave down) or [2] (–, one octave up) register.

Musette Detune

You probably know that an accordion’s 8’ Treble register may consist of 2 or even 3 reeds that are usually tuned apart to provide a richer sound (accordionists call it the “musette effect”). One reed is tuned slightly above, the other slightly below the correct pitch (and the third, if available, is tuned “properly”).

Tuning those reeds is a specialist job and usually not per- formed by accordion players themselves.

On the FR-2/FR-2b, however, “tuning” the “reeds” (that do not really exist) is a matter of pressing a few buttons.

There are, in fact, more options than can be selected with the 8 registers: Dry, Classic, F-Folk, American L, American H, Nord Eur, German L, D-Folk L, Italian L, German H, Alpine, Italian H, D-Folk H, French, Scottish.

Note: This parameter is saved automatically for every register that con- tains the 8’ footage.

Song function

Your FR-2/FR-2b contains 8 popular accordion songs that have been prepared for educational purposes. The left- and right-hand parts are on separate tracks, which allows you to mute one part (left or right hand) to play it yourself. The FR-2/FR-2b will play the other part.

Note: The Song function is not available while “Bellows Curve” on p. 20 is set to “Fixed Low”, “Fixed Med” or “Fixed High”.

Selecting a song

The FR-2/FR-2b contains the following educational songs:

1*	–6	F#
2	–5	G
2*	-4	G#
3	–3	A
3*	–2	A#
4	–1	B

5•	0	C
5*	1	C#
6	2	D
6*	+3	D#
7	+4	E
8	+5	F

1	Can Can	5	Oh Susanna
2	Cielito Lindo	6	Red River Valley
3	Ninna nanna	7	Little Brown Jug
4	Carnevale di Venezia	8	Furusato

(1)Briefly press the [SONG÷DEMO] J button.

(2)Press and hold the [SONG÷DEMO] button.

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