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To select a chord fingering mode
You can select from among the following five chord
fingering modes.
Fingered 1
Fingered 2
Fingered 3
CASIO Chord
Full Range
1.
On the MENU screen, touch "RHYTHM".
2.
Touch "Chord Input Type".
3.
Touch the chord input method you want to
use.
This changes to the selected chord input method.
■ Fingered 1, 2, 3
With these three chord fingering modes, you play
chords on the chord keyboard using their normal
chord fingerings. Some chord forms are abbreviated,
and can be fingered with one or two keys.
For information about the types of chords you can
finger and their fingerings, see the "Fingering Guide"
(page A-1).
Auto Accompaniment keyboard
Fingered 1: Play the component notes of the chord on the
keyboard.
Fingered 2: Unlike Fingered 1, 6th input is not possible with
this mode.
Fingered 3: Unlike Fingered 1, this mode allows input of
fraction chords with the lowest keyboard note as
the bass note.
Melody keyboard
■ CASIO CHORD
With "CASIO Chord", you can use simplified
fingerings to play the four types of chords described
below.
Auto Accompaniment keyboard
Chord Type
Major Chords
Press one key, whose note
corresponds to the chord
name.
• To play C Major, press any
C key in the chord
keyboard. The octave of the
note does not matter.
Minor Chords
Press the chord keyboard key
that corresponds to the major
chord, while also pressing one
other chord keyboard key to
the right.
Seventh Chords
Press the chord keyboard key
that corresponds to the major
chord, while also pressing
two other chord keyboard
keys to the right.
Minor Seventh Chords
Press the chord keyboard key
that corresponds to the major
chord, while also pressing
three other chord keyboard
keys to the right.
When pressing more than one chord keyboard key,
makes no difference whether the additional keys are
white or black.
■ FULL RANGE CHORD
With this chord fingering mode, you can use the full
range of the keyboard to play chords and the melody.
For information about the types of chords you can
finger and their fingerings, see the "Fingering Guide"
(page A-1).
Melody keyboard
Auto Accompaniment keyboard
Using Auto Accompaniment
Melody keyboard
Example
C (C Major)
C C DE
#
E
F
F
#
GA
A
B
B
C C DE
#
E
F
b
b
b
b
Note name
Cm (C minor)
C C DE
#
E
F
F
#
GA
A
B
B
C C DE
#
E
F
b
b
b
b
C7 (C seventh)
C C DE
#
E
F
F
#
GA
A
B
B
C C DE
#
b
E
F
b
b
b
Cm7 (C minor seventh)
C C DE
#
E
F
F
#
GA
A
B
B
C C DE
#
E
F
b
b
b
b
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