1, What Are Music Styles - Roland KR-3500 Owner's Manual

The number of
musical
available can be
increased using
the Music Style
Card (TN-SC
Series : optional)
styles
or the Music
Style Super Card
(MSL-15
optional).
1. What are Music Styles?
Music can be played in different styles. While attending a concert or listening to a record, you
may have thought to yourself, "That sound has a bossanova-like quality", or, "That sound has
a reggae-like quality".
You think like this because the rhythm, the tempo, the instruments played, the melody and the
phrases all come together to create the quality you recognize.
A Music Style is what is obtained when the elements that are typically associated with a certain
genre of music are broken down and put back together. The KR-3500 features 32 different styles
of music (or 64 in the expanded mode).
Music Style
Rhythm
Tempo that fits the rhythm
Selection of instruments that fit the rhythm
Arrangement that fits the rhythm
A Music Style consists of four playing patterns : Original, Variation, Intro and Ending. For each
style, there is a choice between Basic (simple arrangement) and Advanced (more sophisticated
arrangement). This means that a total of 8 accompaniment patterns are available for each
musical style. In addition, a major, minor, seventh, or any other chord selected, will change the
arrangement for the accompaniment pattern, resulting in subtler variations in expression to
match the flow of the music. And when the two types of fill-ins used in between measures in
the accompaniment pattern, breaks, and other special accompaniments are brought into play,
the number of ways in which the accompaniment patterns produced from each musical style
can be combined is enormous.
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| Select an accompaniment pattern for a Music Style using the corresponding button on the
| panel during the performance.
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| A Point of Advice
| The Original, Variation, Intro and Ending of each musical style can perhaps be better
| understood using the analogy of story-telling with its four phases : its beginning, develop-
ment, turns and its conclusion. The simplest composition is produced when music is
played in the sequence below. (Although the composition of real music is more complex,
this unit with its 4 x 2 accompaniment pattern combinations can handle virtually any type
of music.) When a specific kind of music is to be played in its own style, it will sound best |
| if the player considers its inherent flow extending from its introduction to its conclusion.
Conclusion |
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