Selecting And Playing Styles; Selecting A Style - Yamaha Portatone EZ-250i Owner's Manual

Selecting and Playing Styles

The EZ-250i provides dynamic rhythm/accompaniment patterns (styles) — as well as voice set-
tings appropriate for each style — for various popular musical categories.
A total of 100 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 auto accompaniment features that are built into the rhythms add the excitement of instrumental backing to
your performance, letting you control the accompaniment by the chords you play. Auto accompaniment effec-
tively 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 EZ-250i also features the convenient Dictionary function (page 42). Dictionary provides you with a built-in
"chord encyclopedia" that teaches you how to play any chord you specify by showing you the appropriate notes
in the display.

Selecting a Style

1
Press the [STYLE] button.
001
2
Select the desired style number.
The categories of each styles and their numbers are shown
on the panel. A complete style list of the available styles is
given on page 75.
Style number and name
001
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