Roland KR-3 7.7Easy fingering – Chord Intelligence, ■Major chords:, ■Minor chords (m):, ■Seventh chords (7):, ■Diminished (dim) chords:, ■Major Seventh chords (M7):

KR-3 – Easy fingering – Chord Intelligence

Fill-Ins (transitions between Original and Variation)

To Original and To Variation are two fills (or transi- tions) you can use at the end of a musical phrase (verse, chorus, bridge). The two buttons do two things at a time:

In Original mode In Variation mode

Plays the Original Fill and

Plays the Original Fill. selects the Original pat- tern.

Plays the Variation Fill

and selects the Variation Plays the Variation Fill. pattern.

Press these buttons now. Start with [TO VARIA- TION], next press [TO ORIGINAL].

Think of a Fill as the moment in a song when the drummer is allowed to play a roll and the bassist and keyboard players vary their accompaniment by adding a few notes here and there.

Fill-Ins last one bar, but you can produce shorter fills by proceeding as follows: press [TO VARIATION] or [TO ORIGINAL] on the first through the penultimate beat of a bar (i.e. the 1st, 2nd or 3rd beat of a 4/4 bar, or the 1st or 2nd beat of a 3/4 bar) to start the fill right away. It will then last until the end of the current bar. If you press the [TO VARIATION] or [TO ORIGI- NAL] button on the last beat of the current bar, the fill will start on the following downbeat and last an entire bar.

Note: Every time you stop a Music Style in One Touch Program ARRANGER mode, the KR-3 will select the Original pattern again.

7.7Easy fingering – Chord Intelligence

As stated before, the Arranger relies on the chords you play for choosing the key of the accompaniment. Playing chords isn’t always easy, especially when you need to concentrate on your melody. That is why the KR-3 features a function called Chord Intelligence.

It is intelligent in that it allows you to play major chords by pressing just one key (the root note), while minor chords can be played with two keys, and complex chords with only three keys. Unlike other brands, Roland uses a musical system for simplifying chord fingering, so that once you understand the “intelli- gent” versions, you will have little trouble supplying the “missing” notes and playing full chords.

Note: Chord Intelligence is normally set to “On,” but you

can turn it off. See “Auto: changing the Arranger defaults” on page 42.

Here is how to play chords in Chord Intelligent and normal (without Chord Intelligence) modes. All examples are based on a “C” chord. For other chords, either count the distance of the indicated keys from the root note, or refer to “Chord Intelligence” at the end of this manual.

■Major chords:

Chord Intelligence Normal

■Minor chords (m):

Chord Intelligence Normal

■Seventh chords (7):

Chord Intelligence Normal

■Major Seventh chords (M7):

Chord Intelligence Normal

■Minor seventh chords (m7):

Chord Intelligence Normal

■Diminished (dim) chords:

Chord Intelligence Normal

■Minor Major Seventh (mM7):

Chord Intelligence Normal

Note: Even in Chord Intelligence mode, you can play chords the usual way. Sometimes, however, you may get a result that doesn’t quite live up to your expectations. Furthermore, the name of the chord that appears on the display may not be the one you thought you were playing.

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