Auto Accompaniment; The Style Mode; Selecting A Style And Playing The Accompaniment - Yamaha Portatone PSR-340 Owner's Manual

AUTO ACCOMPANIMENT —

THE STYLE MODE

The Style mode provides dynamic rhythm/accompaniment patterns — as well as
voice settings appropriate for each pattern — for various popular music styles.
A total of 100 different styles are available, in several different categories. Each style is made up of
separate "sections" — Intro, Main A and B (with 4 Fill-ins), and Ending — letting you call up different
accompaniment sections as you perform.
The auto accompaniment features that are built into the rhythms add the excitement of instrumental
backing to your performance, letting you control the accompaniment by the chords you play. Auto
accompaniment effectively splits the keyboard into two sections: The upper is used for playing a
melody line, and the lower (set by default to keys F#2 and lower) is for the auto accompaniment
function.
The Style mode also has the powerful Chord Guide features, which include three sophisticated learn-
ing and performance tools: Dictionary, Smart, and EZ Chord. The Dictionary and Smart functions
(pages 62, 64) provide powerful, easy-to-use tools for learning chords and chord relationships. EZ
Chord (page 66) lets you record chord progressions for an entire song, and then step through the
chords by simply pressing a single key in the auto accompaniment section of the keyboard.

SELECTING A STYLE AND PLAYING THE ACCOMPANIMENT

1
Select the Style mode.
Press the STYLE button.
2
Select the desired style number.
Use the numeric keypad. The basic categories of styles and their numbers
are shown at the left of the panel. A complete list of the available styles is
given on page 117.
Indicates Style
mode is selected Style name and number
8BtPop1
001
STYLE
MEASURE 001 116 TEMPO
The PortaTone can also be
used with commercially
available Style File data,
allowing you to load
additional styles (auto
accompaniment patterns)
to the instrument. Style File
data is loaded individually
as style number 101, and
can be played just like the
preset styles.
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