Roland KR-17 Music Styles and Automatic Accompaniment, What is Automatic Accompaniment?

Chapter 2 Automatic Accompaniment

Chapter 2

Music Styles and Automatic Accompaniment

What is Automatic Accompaniment?

Press the One Touch Program [Arranger] button for Automatic Accompaniment’s optimum settings. Automatic Accompaniment is a function that provides you with accompaniment in a variety of musical genres, just by specifying chords in the left hand. Automatic Accompaniment lets you play with an orchestra, even when performing alone!

What Are Music Styles?

Accompaniment patterns in various musical genres are called “Music Styles.”

There are many different kinds of music around the world, and each has its own unique features. What gives jazz or classical music their unmistakable sounds are a unique combination of elements like instrumentation, melody, and phrasing, which interact to create the musical character.

Elements of Music Styles

A Music Style consists of a set of six sections called “divisions.”

Division	Explanation
Intro	Played at the start of a song.
Original	The basic accompaniment pattern.
Variation	This is a variation on the Original accompaniment pattern.
Fill In To Original	This is a one-measure phrase inserted at a point where the
	mood changes and the accompaniment returns to the original.
Fill In To	This is a one-measure phrase inserted at a point where the
	mood changes and the accompaniment moves ahead to the
Variation
	variation.
Ending	The conclusion of a song.

In addition, Music Styles are built from: “Rhythm,” “Bass,” “Accompaniment 1,”

“Accompaniment 2,” and “Accompaniment 3.”

For instructions on playing the

Automatic Accompaniment,

refer to “Selecting Music Styles

(Music Style Buttons)” (p. 62).

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