Minus-One Practice - Yamaha DRX-730BL Owner's Manual

Minus-one Practice

You can turn-off (mute) any of the parts of a song while it is playing, then practice
playing that part yourself along with the other tracks of the song. This is called Minus-
one playback.
Choose any one of the demo or sample disk songs, press one of the TRACK buttons
1-16 below the display, muting the part you want to play, and then try playing yourself.
1
Selecting the Song for Minus-one Playback
To select the song, see (page 76).
2
Select the track for Minus-one playback
Press one of the TRACK buttons below the display, and its number
disappear from the display. The track you selected will go OFF and the part will be
muted.
1 2 3
213 213 337
RHYTHM RHYTHM BASS
1 2
ACCOMPANIMENT TRACK
1 2 3
3
Select the R1 Voice
When you are going to play in place of the muted part, set the voice for the part you
muted (listed under the TRACK Number
To select the R1 voice, see page (page 17).
4
START/STOP Minus-one Playback
Just like starting regular song playback, press the [START/STOP] button to start
and stop Minus-one playback. You can play the muted part yourself.
Pressing one of the TRACK buttons corresponding to the muted parts during song
playback turns on that track/part again.
4 5 6 7 8 9
391 259 434 468 442 471 219
CHORD CHORD PAD PHRASE PHRASE MELODY MELODY
1 2 1 2 1
4 5 6 7 8 9
–
1
START / STOP
1
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
252 213 213 213 213 213
MELODY MELODY ACMP VOICE VOICE VOICE
2 3 4 L
R2 R1
SPLIT DUAL
SONG TRACK R2 R1
L
10 11 12 13 14 15
) as the R1 voice.
16
Song Playback
– will
16
16 16
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