Looking Up Chords Using The Chord Dictionary - Yamaha PortaTone PSR-A300 Owner's Manual

Playing Auto Accompaniment Chords

Looking up Chords Using the Chord Dictionary

The Dictionary function is essentially a built-in "chord dictionary" that
shows you the individual notes of chords. It is ideal when you know the
name of a certain chord and want to quickly learn how to play it.
1
Press and hold the [WAITING] button for longer than a second.
"Dict." will appear in the display.
2
As an example, we'll learn how to play a GM7 (G major seventh)
chord. Press the "G" key in the root section of the keyboard. (The note
doesn't sound.) The root note you set is shown in the display.
C# D#
Db Eb
C D E F
3
Press the "M7" (major seventh) key in the chord section of the key-
board. (The note doesn't sound.)
The notes you should play for the specified chord (root note and chord
type) are shown in the display, both as notation and in the keyboard
diagram.
mM7 m7(9)
(9) m(9) m7b5 7(9)
M M7 m6
G m m7
To call up possible inversions of the chord, press the [+]/[-] buttons.
4
Try playing a chord in the auto accompaniment section of the key-
board, checking the indications in the display.
When you've played the chord properly, a bell sound signals your suc-
cess and the chord name in the display flashes.
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Hold for longer
than a second.
Keys for chord type
dictionary
F# G# A#
Gb Ab Bb
G A B
7(b13) 7aug
dim7 7sus4
7 7(#9) 7(#11) aug
7(b9) 7(13) dim sus4
Chord name (root
and type)
Dict.
Keys for root
dictionary
Dict.
001
Notation of chord
Dict.
001
Individual notes of chord
(keyboard)
NOTE
• Major chords are usually
indicated by the root name
only. For example, the indi-
cation "C" in a score refers
to a "C Major" chord. To
look up the fingering for a
major chord press the root
key and then the M chord
type key.