Pattern Variation (Sections) - Yamaha TYROS Owner's Manual

Quick Guide
Selecting and Playing a Style — Auto Accompaniment (ACMP)

Pattern Variation (Sections)

The TYROS features a wide variety of style "sections" that allow you to vary the arrangement of
the accompaniment to match the song you are playing. They are: Intro, Main, Fill-in, Break and
Ending. By switching among them as you play, you can easily produce the dynamic elements of
a professional-sounding arrangement in your performance.
INTRO
G INTRO.......................This is used for the beginning of the song. When the intro finishes playing, style play-
G MAIN.........................This is used for playing the main part of the song. It plays a rhythm pattern of several
G FILL IN......................The fill-in sections let you add dynamic variations and breaks in the rhythm of the
G BREAK .....................This lets you add dynamic breaks in the rhythm of the accompaniment, to make your
G ENDING ....................This is used for the ending of the song. When the ending is finished, the style play-
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Select the desired style using the steps described on page 32.
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Turn [AUTO FILL IN] on.
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Press any of the [INTRO] buttons.
7
As soon as you play a chord with your left hand, the Intro of the
selected style starts.
For this example, play a C major chord (as shown below).
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Press any of the accompaniment section buttons
as desired. (See the Accompaniment Structure Diagram
on the next page.)
After the corresponding Fill-in is played back, it automatically leads to the main
section.
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Press any of the [ENDING] buttons.
This switches to the ending section. When the ending is finished, style playback
automatically stops.
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MAIN VARIATION
back shifts to the main section. The length of the intro (in measures) differs depending
on the selected style. The TYROS also features three different intros.
measures, and repeats indefinitely until another section's button is pressed. There
are 4 variations on the basic pattern, A - D and the style playback sound changes
harmonically based on the chords you play with your left hand.
accompaniment, to make your performance sound even more professional. Turn the
[AUTO FILL IN] button on, simply press one of the MAIN (A, B, C, D) buttons as you
play, and the selected fill-in section plays automatically (AUTO FILL), spicing up the
auto accompaniment. When the fill-in is finished, it leads smoothly into the selected
main section (A, B, C, D). There are four variations for the fill-in sections, each spe-
cially programmed to match the selected main section. Even when [AUTO FILL] is
turned off, pressing the same button of the currently playing section automatically
plays a fill-in before returning to the same main section.
performance sound even more professional.
back stops automatically. The length of the ending (in measures) differs depending
on the selected style. The TYROS features three different endings.
Split Point
Chord section
BREAK ENDING / rit.
When the playback of the intro is
finished, it automatically leads
into the main section.
• Depending the selected style, not
all sections may have data. The
lamp of the section button that
contains data lights in green, and
the lamp of the section button that
contains no data does not light
(page 73).
ACMP
OTS AUTO
LINK FILL IN
INTRO
MAIN VARIATION BREAK
ENDING / rit.