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some fun, too! Auto Accompaniment gives you the ability to play more music than you
thought you could. (See pages 28-31 in your User's Manual for further information on
Styles).
A Mark 12 style is made up of many separate but related musical tracks, which are
grouped into sections, parts, and chord sections. These tracks are what you hear when a
style is being played in accompaniment, although the individual notes are transposed by
the style player to match the chord chosen by the chord reader.
There are six style sections in each style:
Each of these sections has up to five separate style parts:
In addition, each of these parts can exist in three separate chord sections, so that the
musical grooves vary from Major to Minor to Dominant 7th. In all, there can be up to 90
separate musical tracks in a Mark 12 style. It is important to note, however, that you can
make a very interesting and musically worthwhile style without having to compose all of
these tracks.
The Original and Variation sections are recorded as loops; that is to say, they repeat
themselves automatically, to produce a continuous musical groove as accompaniment.
The two Fills are generally short, one or two measure sections which link the looped
sections in a musical way. The Introduction and Ending can be as simple or elaborate as
you wish, either short or long, depending on the musical style. The Break section con-
tains no music, but gives a section of silence of the same length as the Fill To Main.
The chord section, as mentioned above, allows a style to be composed to match chords of
various types. This is an advanced feature, and you don't need to worry about it if you're
just getting started—just stick with Major. If you are a more accomplished musical
arranger, you may want to develop your tracks to match the various chords that can be
used to drive the auto accompaniment process. The Mark 12 recognizes 19 different
chords, and maps them to the chord sections as follows:
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1. INTRODUCTION
2. ORIGINAL
3. VARIATION
4. FILL TO VARIATION
5. FILL TO ORIGINAL
6. ENDING
1. Drums
2. Bass
3. Background A
4. Background B
5. Background C
KURZWEIL MARK 12 USER'S GUIDE ADDENDUM
AUTO ACCOMPANIMENT Style Editor
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