Yamaha DGX-305 manual Change a Song’s Style, Using the Easy Song Arranger, Guid e, Select a song

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Change a Song’s Style

In addition to each song’s default style, you can select any other style to play the song with the Easy Song Arranger feature. This means that you can play a song that is normally a ballad, for example, as a bossa nova, as a hip-hop tune, etc. Since songs are combinations of a melody and a style, you can create totally different arrangements by changing the style with which a song is played. You can also change the song’s mel- ody voice and the keyboard voice for a complete change of image.

Using the Easy Song Arranger

1 Press the [EASY SONG ARRANGER] button.

The song number and name in the EASY SONG ARRANGER MAIN display will be highlighted. You can now use the dial to select a different song.

The currently selected song number and name are dis- played here.

2 Select a song.

Use the dial to select the song you want to arrange. For this example select “004 Down By The River.”

NOTE

•You can’t use the Easy Song Arranger directly with user songs (031 – 035), but you can convert user songs to SMF (Standard MIDI File) format and save them to SmartMedia mem- ory (page 76), from where they can be used with the Easy Arranger feature.

3 Listen to the song.

Press the [START/STOP] button to begin playback of the song. Move on to the next step while the song is playing.

Song start!

NOTE

•When playing song numbers 022 – 024 while using the Easy Song Arranger, melody tracks will be automatically muted and no melody will sound. In order to hear the melody tracks you will need to press the SONG MEMORY buttons [3] – [5].

4 Press the [EASY SONG ARRANGER] button.

The style number and name in the EASY SONG ARRANGER MAIN display will be highlighted. You can now use the dial to select a different style.

The currently selected style number and name are dis- played here.

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