Adjusting The Accompaniment Volume; Concert Chord - Optimus Concertmate 980 Owner's Manual

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Notes:
• You can use the keyboard's rhythm
controls ( FILL-IN
with both types of auto accompani-
ment.
• After you press the auto accompani-
ment keys, the keyboard plays the
same chord until you press other
keys to play a different chord or
press
START/STOP
Adjusting the Accompaniment
Volume
The Concertmate 980 lets you adjust the
volume of your accompaniment sepa-
rately from the overall volume of the key-
board.
1. Press
ACCOMP VOLUME
rent accompaniment volume setting
appears on the display next to
Acomp Vol .
2. Within 5 seconds, enter a number
from 0 (no sound) to 9 (loudest) on
the keypad. The number appears on
the display as you press the key.
Or, press or
– +
lowest or highest accompaniment
volume setting.
To reset the accompaniment volume to
its default value of 7, press
same time.
Note: You can adjust the accompani-
ment volume separately for your key-
board play and
playback.
and SYNCHRO )
.
. The cur-
to select the next
and + at the
–
prerecorded tune

Concert Chord

The concert chord method lets begin-
ning keyboard players easily select and
play a chord.
The number of accompaniment keys
you press determines the type of chord
that plays. This chart shows the chord
type that plays when you press one,
two, three, or four accompaniment keys
at the same time.
Number of Keys
Pressed
C D E F G A B C D E F
C D E F G A B C D E F
C D E F G A B C D E F
C D E F G A B C D E F
The lowest note you play determines the
key of the chord. For example, if the low-
est note is C, the keyboard plays a C
chord.
Note: You can press any labeled note(s)
to the right of the lowest note in the
chord to produce a minor, a dominant
seventh, or minor seventh chord.
Chord Type
Major
Minor (m)
Dominant
Seventh (7)
Minor
Seventh
(m7)
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