Yamaha DGX-305, DGX-505 Harmony, Styles Auto Accompaniment Quick Guide, Play along with the style

Styles (Auto Accompaniment) Quick Guide

9 Play along with the style.

Play a melody with right hand while playing cords in the accompaniment range of the keyboard with your left hand. The [START/STOP] button will flash at the current playback tempo (red on the first beat of each measure, blue on the oth- ers).

Accompaniment range

Flashes at the current tempo

Chords Melody

Each style has two main patterns – MAIN A and MAIN B.

If you press the [MAIN/AUTO FILL] button during playback a fill-in will play and then playback will switch to the other MAIN pattern.

●An example of how you might play a pattern:

Style preparation INTRO A MAIN A FILL B MAIN B ENDING Style stop

10 Press the [INTRO/ENDING/rit.] button to end.

Style playback will stop after an appropriate ending.

Harmony

This feature adds harmony notes to the main voice.

When you press the [HARMONY] button to turn this feature on, the appropriate harmony type for the currently selected main voice is automatically selected. 26 different harmony types are provided. You can select a different har- mony type by following the procedure outlined below. The effect and operation of each harmony type is different – refer to the Harmony Type List on page 104 for details.

1 Press the [HARMONY] button.

The [HARMONY] button turns the harmony feature on and off. When harmony is on the harmony icon will appear in the display.

NOTE

•Harmony cannot be turned on or off during a song lesson.

Harmony icon

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