Playing Auto Accompaniment Chords

Looking up Chords Using the Chord Dictionary

The Dictionary function is essentially a built-in “chord dictionary” that shows you the individual notes of chords. It is ideal when you know the name of a certain chord and want to quickly learn how to play it.

1 Press and hold the [WAITING] button for longer than a second. “Dict.” will appear in the display.

Dict.

Hold for longer than a second.

2 As an example, we’ll learn how to play a GM7 (G major seventh) chord. Press the “G” key in the section of the keyboard labeled “ROOT.” (The note doesn’t sound.) The root note you set is shown in the display.

 

Keys for chord type

 

Keys for root

 

 

 

 

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3 Press the “M7” (major seventh) key in the section of the keyboard labeled “CHORD TYPE.” (The note doesn’t sound.)

The notes you should play for the specified chord (root note and chord type) are shown in the display, both as notation and in the keyboard diagram.

 

Notation of chord

 

Dict.

 

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Chord name (root

Individual notes of chord

and type)

(keyboard)

To call up possible inversions of the chord, press the [+]/[-] buttons.

4 Try playing a chord in the auto accompaniment section of the key- board, checking the indications in the display.

When you’ve played the chord properly, a bell sound signals your success and the chord name in the display flashes.

NOTE

•Major chords are usually indicated by the root name only. For example, the indi- cation “C” in a score refers to a “C Major” chord. To look up the fingering for a major chord press the root key and then the M chord type key.

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