Selecting And Playing Styles; Selecting A Style - Yamaha PortableGrand DGX-300 Owner's Manual

Selecting and Playing Styles

The DGX-500/300 provides dynamic rhythm/accompaniment patterns (styles) — as well as
voice settings appropriate for each style — for various popular musical categories.
A total of 135 different styles are available, in several different categories. Each style is made up of separate
"sections" — Intro, Main A and B, and Ending — letting you call up different accompaniment sections as you
perform.
The style features that are built into the rhythms add the excitement of instrumental backing to your perfor-
mance, letting you control the accompaniment by the chords you play. Auto accompaniment effectively splits
the keyboard into two areas: The upper is used for playing a melody line, and the lower (set by default to keys
F#2 and lower) is for the auto accompaniment function.
The DGX-500/300 also features the convenient Dictionary function (page 50). Dictionary provides you with a
built-in "chord encyclopedia" that teaches you how to play any chord you specify by showing you the appropri-
ate notes in the display.
The DGX-500/300 can also be used with the included disk or commercially available Style File data, allowing
you to load additional styles (auto accompaniment patterns) to the instrument. Style File data is loaded individ-
ually as style number 136, and can be played just like the preset styles.

Selecting a Style

1
Press the [STYLE] button.
2
Select the desired style number.
Use the numeric keypad. The basic categories of styles and their numbers
are shown at the left of the panel. A complete list of the available styles is
given on page 98.
Style numbers can be selected in the same way as with the voices (see page
25). You can use the numeric keypad to directly enter the style number, or
use the [+]/[-] buttons to step up and down through the styles.
38
Style name and number
001
Indicates Style mode
is selected
001