Playing Along With Rhythm And Auto Accompaniment (Styles); Playing Along With Auto Accompaniment (Styles) - Yamaha PSR-E283 Reference Manual

Playing Along with Rhythm and Auto Accompaniment (Styles)

This instrument has an automatic accompaniment feature that automatically plays a chord Style (rhythm + bass note + chord
note) that matches the root note or chord played with your left hand. You can select between two ways to play chords: "Smart
Chord," in which you play the chord with one finger on the keyboard, and "Multi-Finger," in which you play the notes that make
up the chord as they are. Let's try playing using this Auto Accompaniment function.
Playing Along with Auto Accompaniment
(Styles)
The default setting for how to play chords is "Smart Chord
(SmartChd)." For information on changing how to play the
chord, see "Selecting How to Play a Chord (Fingering Type)"
(page 25).
1
Press [STYLE] !3 .
2
Press one of the Category buttons !4 to select the
desired Style.
Each time you press the button, the Style changes to another
Style in the same category. For the preset Styles and Style
numbers, see "Style List" (page 46).
• There are two other ways to select a Style. See "How to
select Voices, Songs, or Styles" (page 10).
3
Press [ACMP ON/OFF] !2 to turn Auto Accompaniment
on.
The icon will appear on the display.
With this operation, the area to the left of the Split Point (054:
F#2) becomes the "Auto Accompaniment range" and is used only
for specifying chords.
Split point ... Default value: 054 (F#2)
Left-hand range
(Auto Accompaniment range)
← STYLE category
4
Press [SYNC START] !2 .
This enables the standby state for Auto Accompaniment, and the
Style starts when you press a key in the left-hand range.
5
Play the root note of the accompaniment chords with
your left hand, and play the melody with your right
hand.
When the fingering type (page 25) is set to "Smart Chord
(SmartChd)," press only the root note of the chord with your left
hand. For details on how to play chords when using "Multi-Finger
(Multi)," see "Chord Types for Style Playback" (page 26).
Try playing various chords with your left hand and melodies with
your right hand.
Split point
Auto Accompaniment
range
6
If you want to stop the Style and end the
performance, press [START/STOP] !2 .
Styles allow you to vary the performance by switching sections
(accompaniment patterns). For details, see "Style Variations
(Sections)" (page 24).
To change the split point
Hold down !9 and press [ACMP ON/OFF] !2 to call up
"SplitPnt" (page 32, Function number 003). Then, press [+]
or [-] !5 to change the split point.
To play back the rhythm part only
If you press [START/STOP] !2 (without pressing
[ACMP ON/OFF] !2 in step 3), only the rhythm part can
be played back, and you will be able to play a melody
performance using the entire keyboard range.
• Since the Styles in the Style category "PIANIST" (143–150)
have no rhythm parts, no sound is produced if you start
rhythm-only playback. Sound is heard only when Auto
Accompaniment ( ) is turned on and the keyboard in
the left-hand range is played.
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