Using The Smart Chord Feature - Yamaha Portable Grand DGX-650 Owner's Manual

Using the Smart Chord feature

If you want to fully enjoy playing in various Styles but don't know how to play the appropriate chords, Smart
Chord is very useful. This function lets you control Styles with just a single finger as long as you know the key of
your playing music, even if you don't know any chord fingering such as major, minor, diminished and so on.
Appropriate chords suited for the music genre will sound whenever you press a single note, as if you were playing
the "right" chords.
Key Signature (Key in F major)
F
1
Select the Style which you want to play
with, as described in steps 1–2 on page
28.
2
Press the [EXIT] button to return to the
MAIN display.
3
Press the [SMART CHORD] button to
turn on the Smart Chord function.
Indicates the current Smart Chord
settings, KEY and TYPE when the
Smart Chord is on.
NOTE
• Smart Chord can be turned on after pressing the [STYLE]
button.
4
Hold down the [SMART CHORD] button
until the SMART CHORD setting display
appears.
Chord Types
F# G
dim m
5
On the KEY SIGNATURE page, use the
dial to select the Key Signature.
Make sure to select the Key Signature which is
same as that on your music score, or your desired
key for playing. Check the Key Signature indica-
tion at the right bottom corner of the display.
Since the number of flats or sharps is shown to the
right of Key Signature in the display, you can also
find the desired Key Signature by counting the
number of flats or sharps.
Playing Styles
C F C
7 7
Indicates the selected Key Signature.
Set this to the same as your music
score.
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