Playing Styles

Playing Styles

The PSR-2000/1000 has a huge variety of musical “styles” that you can call upon to back up your own performance. They give you anything from a simple, yet effective piano backing or percussion accompaniment to a full band or orchestra.

Style related buttons

Reference on page 59

Playing a style

1 Select a style group and a style.

A

STYLE

 

SWING&

 

MARCH&

B

POP& ROCK

JAZZ

BALLROOM

WALTZ

 

 

 

 

 

C

BALLAD

DANCE

LATIN

USER

 

 

 

 

 

D

 

 

 

 

E

For this example, Dance is

For this example,

selected.

EuroTrance is selected.

Press the [BACK]/[NEXT] button to select the memory location of the style. For this example, PRESET is selected.

2 Turn ACMP on.

The specified left-hand section of the keyboard becomes the “Auto Accompaniment” section, and chords played in this section are automatically detected and used as a basis for fully automatic accompaniment with the selected style.

Split Point

ACMP

Auto Accompaniment

section

The point on the keyboard that separates the auto accompaniment section and the right-hand sec- tion of the keyboard is called the “split point.” Refer to page 138 for instructions on setting the split point.

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