Tutorial; Playing A Style (Automatic Accompaniment) - Korg microARRANGER Owner's Manual

7. TUTORIAL

This chapter is fully devoted to step‐by‐step instruc‐
tions, that we hope may be useful to learn the basics—
in the field.
PLAYING A STYLE
(Automatic Accompaniment)
A Style will be your virtual band for your best solos.
Select one of the 304 Styles we fitted in this machine...
1 OK, select your favorite musical Style.
There are plenty of Styles to choose from. We will go
with a Jazz Style—the "Jazz Brush".
1. Select the second row of Styles. Press the leftmost
STYLE button to switch the lower LED on.
2. Now, you are free to press button number 4, called
"JAZZ 1".
The Style Select window appears.
The selected Style
3. Press one of the A VOLUME/VALUE buttons to
select "Jazz Brush".
Playing a Style (Automatic Accompaniment)
2 Call an Intro.
You can engage an Intro to be played before the Style.
Press INTRO1 or INTRO2. The former plays more
freely, without letting you decide the chords. The latter
lets you play a chord progression while it's playing.
3 Start the Style!
Play a chord, and press the START/STOP button.
Then begin playing. Usually (when the SPLIT LED is
on) chords are recognized under the split point, i.e. on
the Lower part of the keyboard. With the UPPER or
FULL Chord Scanning mode, you must play three or
more notes to have a chord recognized.
4 Play your chords and your melody.
Go on playing. As you may notice, the microAR‐
RANGER features a very sophisticate chord recogni‐
tion engine. Recognized chords are shown in the
display.
5 Make a break—or should we say "a fill"?
During your playing, you are free to call a one‐bar
break. Try it:
PRESS BREAK
Do you see? Music stopped for one bar. Then, it is back
again. After a while, let's go for something different...
PRESS FILL1 OR FILL2
No silence, this time. microARRANGER plays a com‐
plex passage to let you take a breath. FILL1 is the sim‐
pler one, where FILL2 is more sophisticated. Usually,
you will use FILL1 when playing with Variations 1 and
2 (the most easy), FILL2 when working with Variations
3 and 4 (more complex ones).
6 Select other Variations.
There are four VARIATION buttons. These are four dif‐
ferent versions of the same Style. Try them all!
You can go to a Variation after a Fill. Just press a FILL
button, then, immediately after press a VARIATION
button.
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