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.

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