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Song Playback
The song playback features of the TYROS let you play MIDI song (sequence) data. This includes commercially
available song data on floppy disk (GM- or XG-compatible), and performances you’ve recorded yourself with the Song
Recording features (page 54) and saved to one of the drives. In addition, the TYROS can display music notation and
lyrics, and you can use the sophisticated Guide functions to practice the keyboard and your singing as well.
This section explains detailed settings about song playback that are not covered in “Quick Guide.”
Displaying Music Notation
To view the music notation of the selected song, press the [Score] LCD button on the Main display. This lets you
read the music while the song plays back. That’s not all, though; there’s much more you can do:
•Read the score while the song is stopped and practice it on your own.
•Use the notation to practice playing just the melody part, while the accompaniment provides the backing.
Simply turn off the right-hand part (channel) from the display.
•If the song has lyric data, you can read the lyrics from the display and sing along while the song plays.
Connect a microphone and you can even have your voice mixed with the song as it plays.
•With the sophisticated Guide features, you can let the TYROS “teach” you how to play the song properly
— and even how to sing it with the correct pitches.
Basic Procedure (Score)
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Select a song.
Go back to the Main display and
press the [Score] LCD button.
As the song plays back, a red “ball”
bounces along through the score,
indicating the current position.
Set the parameters of the
view type as required.
Set the detailed parameters of the
view type as required.
• The displayed notation is generated by the TYROS based on
the song MIDI data. As a result, it may not be exactly the
same as commercially available sheet music of the same
song – especially when displaying notation of complicated
passages or many short notes.
• Some song data has been recorded with special “free tempo”
settings. For such song data, the tempo, beat, measure and
music notation will not be displayed correctly.
• If all of the notes in a certain measure cannot fit in one line,
the measure is extended to the next line.
• The notation functions cannot be used to create song data by
inputting notes. For information on creating song data, see
page 100.
• You can increase the number of measures that will be dis-
played by decreasing the other items to be displayed (parts,
lyrics, chords, etc.).
Quick Guide on page 43