Yamaha Portatone, PSR-270 manual Recording Chords and Sections to the Chord Track, Recording Rests

SONG RECORDING

■Additional Operations

Recording Chords and Sections to the Chord Track:

1)Play a chord in the accompaniment section of the keyboard. (“Chord“ and the chord name appears in the display.)

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Chords can be entered manually (with the Dictionary function), or played with Multi Fingering. (See page 62, 56.)

2)Select a section by pressing the corresponding button.

When selecting an Intro or Ending section, the length is fixed, and need not be entered in step 3 below.

3)Select the note (time) value with the numeric keypad.

Recording Triplets and Dotted Notes:

1)At the desired position, press the corresponding numeric keypad button (“7” for dotted or “9” for triplets).

2)Press the numeric keypad button for the desired note value.

+	Dotted note
+	Triplet

Recording Rests:

1)Select the desired position in the song with the +/- buttons.

2)Press the “8” (rest) button in the numeric keypad.

3)If you want to record a dotted rest or triplet rest, press the appropriate numeric keypad button (“7” for dotted or “9” for triplets).

4)Press the numeric keypad button (1 - 6) corresponding to the desired rest value. (The specified rest value appears as an icon in the display.)

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Rest value icon (eighth-note rest)

5)After recording the desired rest value(s), record the next note.

•The Intro section can only be recorded at the beginning of a song.

•When an Ending section is selected, no further notes can be recorded.

Triplets are three notes within a single beat — in other words, one beat is divided up into three equal units. Each note (or rest) of a triplet must be entered separately.

Two eighth notes (within a quarter-note beat).

Three eighth-note triplets (within a quarter-note beat).

Dotted notes extend the length of a note by half

—in other words, the length of a dotted eighth note is an eighth note plus a sixteenth note.

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If you want to enter two or more consecutive beats of rest, you can simply use the + button to move forward in the track (for as many beats rest as desired). This saves you the trouble of repeatedly entering rests when there are several beats or measures of silence between notes.

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