Playing All Parts - Casio CTK-4400 User Manual

Playing All Parts

Auto Accompaniment with Chords
Playing a chord with your left hand automatically adds bass
and harmony accompaniment parts to the currently selected
rhythm. It is just like having your own personal back up group
on call.
1.
Start play of the Auto Accompaniment rhythm
part.
2.
Press bl .
This enables chord input on the accompaniment
keyboard.
Accompaniment keyboard
Lights
3.
Use the accompaniment keyboard to play
chords.
This will cause bass and harmony Auto Accompaniment
parts to be added to the rhythm part.
The illustration below shows the chord keyboard range
under WK-240 and WK-245 initial default settings.
Chords
(no melody played)
F3
Example: Pressing D-F #
-A-C on the accompaniment keyboard
Accompaniment for the D-F
4.
Play other chords with left hand as you play the
melody with your right hand.
Melody
4
#
-A-C chord (D7) sounds.
Using Auto Accompaniment
5.
Pressing bl again returns to rhythm only
accompaniment.
• For information about starting Auto Accompaniment as
soon as a chord is played, see "Using Synchro Start" on
page EN-42.
• You can use the split point to change the size of the
accompaniment keyboard range (page EN-16).
Selecting a Chord Input Mode
You can select from among the following five chord input
modes.
• FINGERED 1
• FINGERED 2
• FINGERED 3
• CASIO CHORD
• FULL RANGE CHORD
1.
bl
Hold down until the chord input mode
selection screen appears on the display.
Chord input mode
C h o r d
2.
Use the br (10-key) [–] and [+] keys to select
the chord input mode you want.
• If you do not perform any operation after the chord input
mode selection screen appears, the display will return
automatically to the screen that was displayed before
you held down bl .
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