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2. Automatic Accompaniment

Music Styles and Automatic Accompaniment

What is automatic accompaniment?

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! Press
the One Touch Program [Arranger] to recall optimum settings for this function.

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 patterns called “divisions.”
In addition, Music Styles may contain some or all of the following partsfff:
“Rhythm,” “Bass,” “Accompaniment 1,” “Accompaniment 2,” “Accompaniment 3,”
“Accompaniment 4,” “Accompaniment 5,” and “Accompaniment 6.”
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
Variation
This is a one-measure phrase inserted at a point where the
mood changes and the accompaniment moves ahead to the
variation.
Ending The conclusion of a song.
For instructions on playing the
automatic accompaniment,
refer to “Selecting Music Styles
(Music Style Buttons)” (p. 39).
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