Roland KR103 5.Playing with accompaniment (Arranger), Starting/using the Arranger, “1”, “2”, Using the count-infunction

KR103 Digital Intelligent Piano

Playing with accompaniment (Arranger)

5.Playing with accompaniment (Arranger)

Let us begin with the automatic accompaniment function, which is called “Arranger” and often referred to as “Style” or “Music Style” in the display and on the front panel.

Starting/using the Arranger						If the [Arranger] indicator lights, you will hear a ste-
						reo string sound and a monophonic bass sound while
(1) Press the [Arranger] button.						the Arranger is stopped. The string and bass sounds
						are muted as soon as you start Arranger playback (or
						switch on the SYNC START function). If you want to
		Tone				double Arranger playback with a sound assigned to
		Guitar	Sax	Others
	Piano	Organ Bass	Strings Brass	Drum/Sfx	Disk
					Melody	the left half of the keyboard, switch on the Lower
						part (see p. 21).
	Piano	Arranger	Split	Layer	Intelligence
	One Touch Program		Lower			(3) Play a chord (or just one note) with your left hand.
						The same pattern is now played in that key. You don’t
						even have to play full chords:

The ARRANGER icon appears in the display and the keyboard is split into two halves. The keys you press in the left half are used to specify the key of the accompaniment. The right half of the keyboard allows you to play a tune to the accompaniment.

•For major chords, playing just the root note is enough (e.g. “C” for C major, “A” for A major, etc.)

•For minor chords, playing the root note and the third key to its right will do.

•For seventh chords, playing the root and the second key to its left is enough.

Arranger	Upper part
(accompaniment)	(melody)

(2)Press the [Start÷Stop] button to start Arranger play- back.

C major

Only the key that corresponds to the chord's name.

C7

C minor

Root note + third key to the right.

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Rock

Music Style

Gospel

Kids

Count Metronome

Song

Root note + second key to the left.

Acoustic Country

Swing

Pop

Ballad Oldies

Big Band

Latin

Trad

User

Marker

(4) Play another chord (or note) to change the

To Variation To Original

Ending

Stop

Intro

Start

Music

Arranger’s key.

Assistant

Fill In

Sync

Tempo

Using the count-in function

The metronome indicators flash to indicate the

The KR103 provides a count-in function you may want

to use for practising new songs. This function counts

tempo and beats according to the following system:

down one measure when you press the [Start÷Stop] but-

ton, after which Arranger playback starts.

Count Metronome

The slightly bigger indicators at either

(1) Press the [Count÷Marker] button.

end of the arc indicate the beats. The

“1”

remaining indicators are only used to

Marker

simulate the movement of a mechanic

Rock

Music Style

Gospel

Kids

Count Metronome

Song

Acoustic Country

Swing

metronome.

Pop

Ballad Oldies

Big Band

Latin

Trad

User

The “big” indicators light red to indi-

Marker

Intro

Start

cate the downbeat (see “1”), and

To Variation To Original

Ending

Stop

Music

green on the remaining beats of a bar

Assistant

(see “2”). Consequently, the third beat

Fill In

Sync

Tempo

Count Metronome

of this example is indicated by the left

“2” indicator that then lights in green.The following message appears in the display:

Marker

Note: The lighting pattern of the beat indicators can be	00Count-In
switched off. See “Beat Ind” on p. 45.

There is also a BEAT indication in the display that tells

(2) Use the [+][–]buttons to select “On” (count-in

you where you are.

active, the button’s indicator lights) or “Off” (no count-in, the button’s indicator goes dark).

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