44 PSR-450 Owner’s Manual
Playing Style (Accompaniment) Chords
When the [ACMP ON/OFF] button has been used to turn style accompaniment on the fol-
lowing chords can be played in the accompaniment range of the keyboard (to the left of
the split point) to produce accompaniment.
●Simple chords using just 1 ~ 3 fingers.
●Properly fingered full chords.
The initial default split point is 54 (F#2)
36 48 60 72 84 96
• All the chord fingerings here
are illustrated using C as the
root.
•See page 28 for details on how
to set the split point.
NOTE
Simple Chords Using 1 ~ 3 Fingers
Major, minor, seventh, and minor seventh chords can be played using the simple
fingerings shown below.
Full Chords
The recognized chord fingerings are as shown below.
•To play a major chord
Press the root note of
the chord.
•To play a minor chord
Press the root note
together with the
nearest black key to the
left of it.
•To play a seventh chord
Press the root note together
with the nearest white key
to the left of it.
•To play a minor seventh
chord
Press the root note together
with the nearest white and
black keys to the left of it
(three keys altogether).
* Notes enclosed in parentheses are optional; the chords will be recognized without them.
• The keyboard keys corre-
sponding to the chord roots
are as follows:
NOTE
Accompaniment range
(keys to the left of the split
point — 54[F#2]).
C
Cm
C7
Cm7
C
Cm
7
C
( )
CM
( )
7
C(9) C
( )
(9)
6
Caug Cm6Cm7
( )
Cm b5
7CmM b5
7
Cm
( )
(9)
7
Cm(9)
CmM7
( )
CmM (9)
7
( )
Cdim Cdim7
C(9)
7
( )
C(13)
7
( )
C(b9)
7
( )
C(b13)
7
Csus4
C1+2+5
C b5
7
C6
( )
( )
CM7(9) 7
CM (#11)
( )
7
CM b5
C(b5)
( )
C(#11)
7C(#9)
7
( )
C aug
7
Cm7(11)
( )
( )
CM aug
7
( )
C sus4
7
( )