Accompaniment - Yamaha Electone Stagea ELS-01 Owner's Manual

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Accompaniment

The Accompaniment function provides arpeggiated chords and other instrumental
embellishments when rhythms are used.
Accompaniment controls are selected from the Rhythm Menu and Rhythm Condition
display.
1
Press any one of the RHYTHM buttons once.
At the bottom of the display, there are seven part buttons, such as Chord 1,
Chord 2, Pad, and so on. These parts, with the exception of Main Drum and
Add Drum, are Accompaniment parts.
2
Turn the desired parts on.
The Accompaniment consists of five parts, Chord 1, Chord 2, Pad, Phrase 1,
and Phrase 2, and each of them can be set to on or off by pressing corresponding
button in the display.
If you turn all the parts off, the Accompaniment does not sound.
CHORD 1/CHORD 2:
These are the rhythmic chord backing parts.
PAD:
This part features sustained chords and commonly uses lush sounds such as
strings and organ.
PHRASE 1/PHRASE 2:
These parts are used for various embellishments and riffs that enhance the song,
such as brass section accents and chord arpeggios.
Not all parts contain accompaniment data. Some parts may be empty depending
on the selected rhythm and rhythm section.
Main Drum and Add Drum contains the drum and percussion rhythm patterns.
When you turn both Main Drum and Add Drum off, the drum and percussion do
not sound. Generally, Main Drum contains the main part of the rhythm and Add
drum has additional percussion sounds, such as tambourine.
Accompaniment parts
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