Playing Style (Accompaniment) Chords; Simple Chords Using 1 ~ 3 Fingers; Full Chords - Yamaha PortaTone PSR-450 Owner's Manual

Playing Style (Accompaniment) Chords

When the [ACMP ON/OFF] button has been used to turn style accompaniment on the fol-
lowing chords can be played in the accompaniment range of the keyboard (to the left of
the split point) to produce accompaniment.
● Simple chords using just 1 ~ 3 fingers.
●
Properly fingered full chords.
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Simple Chords Using 1 ~ 3 Fingers

Major, minor, seventh, and minor seventh chords can be played using the simple
fingerings shown below.
C
• To play a major chord
Press the root note of
the chord.
Cm
• To play a minor chord
Press the root note
together with the
nearest black key to the
left of it.

Full Chords

The recognized chord fingerings are as shown below.
(9)
C C
Csus Caug
4
(9)
CmM
CmM
7 7
( #11)
(9)
C C
7
7
* Notes enclosed in parentheses are optional; the chords will be recognized without them.
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The initial default split point is 54 (F#2)
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C
7
Cm
7
(9)
C C
6 6
CM aug Cm
7
b5
b5
Cm CmM
7 7
(#9)
C (13)
C
7 7
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• To play a seventh chord
Press the root note together
with the nearest white key
to the left of it.
• To play a minor seventh
chord
Press the root note together
with the nearest white and
black keys to the left of it
(three keys altogether).
7 (9)
CM CM CM
7
(9)
Cm Cm Cm
6
Cdim Cdim C
7
b5
C aug C sus
C
7 7
NOTE
• All the chord fingerings here
are illustrated using C as the
root.
• See page 28 for details on how
to set the split point.
NOTE
• The keyboard keys corre-
sponding to the chord roots
are as follows:
Accompaniment range
(keys to the left of the split
point — 54[F#2]).
(#11) (b5)
C CM
7
(9)
Cm Cm
7 7
(b9)
C C
7 7 7
C
4
7 1+2+5
b5
7
7 ( 11)
(b13)