Song Mode - Williams SYMPHONY GRAND II Owner's Manual

SY M P H O NY G RAN D I I D I G ITAL P IAN O
Controlling the Styles
1. Press the Start/Stop button on the Transport
controls (in the Styles section). You should hear
a drumbeat playing.
2. Press the CHORD button. The lower section of
the keyboard should have green lights.
3. Press a key on the left side of the keyboard
(try the C below middle C). You should start
hearing a musical arrangement playing along
with the drumbeat.
4. As you play individual notes on the keyboard
you can hear the arrangement transpose to a
new key.
Musically Controlling the Styles
1. Press the SYNC button. The LED will light.
2. Press the Intro/End button. It's LED will light.
3. Make sure the CHORD buttons is on, then play a
C key on the left side of the keyboard. The Style
will start playing the intro and then automatically
a regular accompaniment in the key of C.
4. Play G key. At this point the accompaniment will
change to the key of G.
5. Press the Fill1 button. The accompaniment will
now play a fill and continue to play.
6. Press the Fill2/Variation button. There will be
another fill and there will be a variation of the
arrangement.
7. Press the Intro/End button. The arrangement will
now play to the end and then stop.
Other Style Functions
Harmony - When Chord mode is enabled the right
hand part will automatically create a harmony based
on the note you are playing.
OTS - (One Touch Sound) - When this is enabled
the right hand part sound will be automatically
selected to compliment the arrangement that is
selected. You can change this assignment if desired
by selecting a different voice.
Chord - When enabled the key of the rhythmic
arrangement will be based on the root note of what
is played by the left hand. For instance if you play
the C note octave below middle C, the chords will
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be C. To play harmonies other than major chords
you will need to play the interval that will change the
chord from a major to a minor. For instance if you
play a C, Eb and G the C chord will become minor.
If you play C and Bb the Chord will become C7. See
the appendix, pages 36 and 37, for examples of
playing harmonies.
Fade - When you press this button the arrangement
volume can be faded in or faded out.
For Fade ins, press the SYNC button then press the
Fade button. When you play a note on the left side
of the keyboard you will hear the arrangement
fade in.
For Fade outs, simply press the Fade button. You
will hear the arrangement fade out.

SONG MODE

There are two different functions in the Song Mode
of the Symphony Grand II, Internal and USB Song
modes.
If you have a USB flash drive inserted into the HOST
USB drive slot on the front panel you can switch
between these two modes. If you don't have a USB
drive inserted you will only be in Internal Mode.
USB Song Mode
The Symphony Grand II can play standard MIDI
files directly from a USB flash drive (formatted in a
standard Windows FAT 32 format).
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