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Auto Accompaniment - The Style Mode, Selecting A Style And Playing The Accompaniment

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AUTO ACCOMPANIMENT - THE STYLE MODE The Style mode 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 (with 4 Fill-ins), 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 effectively 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 Style mode also has the powerful Chord Guide features, which include three sophisticated learning and performance tools: Dictionary, Smart, and EZ Chord. The Dictionary and Smart functions (pages 62, 64) provide powerful, easy-to-use tools for learning chords and chord relationships. EZ Chord (page 66) lets you record chord progressions for an entire song, and then step through the chords by simply pressing a single key in the auto accompaniment section of the keyboard. SELECTING A STYLE AND PLAYING THE ACCOMPANIMENT 1 Select the Style mode. Press the STYLE button. Indicates Style mode is selected Style name and number STYLE 0018BtPop1 001 116 MEASURE TEMPO The PortaTone can also be used with commercially available Style File data, allowing you to load additional styles (auto accompaniment patterns) to the instrument. Style File data is loaded individually as style number 101, and can be played just like the preset styles. 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 117. 47 45

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AUTO ACCOMPANIMENT —
THE STYLE MODE
The Style mode 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 (with 4 Fill-ins), 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 effectively 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 Style mode also has the powerful Chord Guide features, which include three sophisticated learn-
ing and performance tools: Dictionary, Smart, and EZ Chord.
The Dictionary and Smart functions
(pages 62, 64) provide powerful, easy-to-use tools for learning chords and chord relationships.
EZ
Chord (page 66) lets you record chord progressions for an entire song, and then step through the
chords by simply pressing a single key in the auto accompaniment section of the keyboard.
SELECTING A STYLE AND PLAYING THE ACCOMPANIMENT
1
Select the Style mode.
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 117.
Indicates Style
mode is selected
Style name and number
001
001 116
MEASURE
TEMPO
8BtPop1
STYLE
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The PortaTone can also be
used with commercially
available Style File data,
allowing you to load
additional styles (auto
accompaniment patterns)
to the instrument.
Style File
data is loaded individually
as style number 101, and
can be played just like the
preset styles.