Yamaha QY700 Owner's Manual - Page 128

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Chapter 2. SONG MODE

2

Syncopation

SHIFT

F1

F2

F3

F4

F5

F6

SHIFT

EXIT

Location

On-bass

Original bass

Chord root and type

Measure

Meter

5. Song Recording

Step Recording: CHORD track

5.

Select the measure you want to work on, using either

of

the following methods.

•

Press

d

[D1] to move the cursor to the location

entry area. Select the measure using the data dial,

n

/

y

, or the numeric keypad.

•

With the cursor in the chord entry area, press

u

or

d

to move to the next measure.

6. Press

l

or

r

to move the cursor to the beat at

which you want to enter the chord.

7.

Enter the chord.

■

If

you are not using fingered chords, enter chords as

follows.

To select the chord root:

Press a microkeyboard key be-

tween E2 and D

#

3.

To select the chord type:

Press a key between E3 and F4.

To set an “on-bass”:

Hold down the left-side

d

[OCT

DOWN] key and press a

microkeyboard key between E2

and D

#

3.

To set an “original bass”:

Hold down the left

u

[OCT UP]

key and press a key between E2

and D

#

3, followed by a key be-

tween E3 to F4.

•

You use this method to write chord data into the CHORD

track. There are five data types: chord type, chord root, on-

bass, original bass, and syncopation.

0101

1101

Chord root:

C, C

#

, D, E

b

, E, F, F

#

, G, A

b

, A, B

b

, B

Chord type:

M, M7, 6, 7, m, m7, m6, mM7, m7 (

b

5), dim, aug, sus4,

add9, m7 (9), 6 (9), 7 (9), madd9, m7 (9), m7 (11), 7 (

b

5),

7 (

#

5), 7 (

b

9), 7 (

#

9), 7 (13), 7 (

b

13), 7sus4, 7 (

#

11), ---

(=THRU)

Syncopation:

,

,

,

1.

Starting from the SONG PLAY screen, press

e

.

▼

The QY700 displays the Recording Standby page. The RE-

CORDING indicator comes on.

2. Press

6

(STEP) to select step recording.

3. Press

u

or

d

as necessary to set

the recording track to CHORD.

4. Press

p

.

▼

The PLAY indicator comes on. The QY700 displays the

step recording page for CHORD-track recording.

F

#

E

F

G

A

B

C

D

M

add9

M7

add9

a

m

mM7

m6

c

C

#

D

#

7

(

#

5)

7

(

b

5)

7

(

#

9)

7

sus4

sus4

SECTION

A

G

b

D

b

E

b

7

(

b

9)

m7

(

b

5

)

M7

(9)

6

6

(9)

7

7

(9)

m7

(9)

m7

dim

Z

W

V

/

H

G

F

U

T

S

R

Q

P

O

#

N

C

B

A

?

M

L

K

_

!

S

%

&

E

)

D

(

_

Y

X

aug

7

(

b

13

)

7

(13)

7

(

#

11)

J

I

m7

(11)

c

G

#

A

b

A

#

B

b

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

Enter the chord type here.

Enter the chord root here.

s

SONG PLAY

6

Step Recording

e

Song Recording

TR1~TR32

PATTERN

CHORD

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