Playing Styles
Playing Along with a Style
You learned how to select a Style rhythm on the preceding page.
Here we’ll see how to add bass and chord accompaniment to the basic rhythm to produce a full, rich accompaniment that you can play along with.
1 Select and press the desired Style category button in the Style section.
Press the [EXIT] button to return to the Main display.
2 Turn automatic accompaniment on.Press the [ACMP] button.
Pressing this button a second time will turn automatic accompaniment off.
[ACMP] button is lit.
●When automatic accompaniment is on ...
The area of the keyboard to the left of the split point (54: F#2) becomes the “auto accompaniment region” and is used only for specifying the accompaniment chords.
Split point (54: F#2)
Auto accompa- niment region
3 Turn Sync Start on.Press the [SYNC START] button to turn the Sync Start function on.
Flashes when Sync Start is on.
When Sync Start is on, the bass and chord accompaniment included in a Style will start playing as soon as you play a note to left of the keyboard split point. To cancel or disable Sync Start, press the button a second time to turn the Sync Start function off.
NOTE
•The Split point can be changed as required; refer to page 59.