Auto Accompaniment; Selecting A Style - Yamaha Portatone PSR-GX76 Owner's Manual

Auto Accompaniment

The PSR-GX76 provides dynamic rhythm/accompaniment patterns — as well as voice settings
appropriate for each pattern — for various popular music styles.
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 sections: 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 PSR-GX76 also features the convenient Dictionary function (page 45). 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.

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 81.
Style numbers can be selected in the same way as with the voices (see page
24). You can use the numeric keypad to directly enter the style number, or
use the [+]/[-] buttons to step up and down through the styles.
34
Style name and number
001
8BtPop1
Indicates Style mode
is selected