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Playing Backing Parts with the Performance Assistant Technology

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Playing Backing Parts with the Performance Assistant Technology This feature lets you play your own backing parts on the keyboard along with Song playback, and have them sound perfectly appropriate (even though you might be playing wrong notes). 1 Select a Song containing chord data. The Performance Assistant Technology applies only to Songs containing chord data. To confirm whether the selected Song contains chord data or not, return to the Main display, then start playback. If the current Song contains chord data, the Main display shows the current chord type. After stopping playback, go to the next step. 2 Call up the operation display. [FUNCTION] → TAB [-][3] MENU1 → [H] SONG SETTING → TAB [-][3] OTHERS 3 Press the [6]/[7] button to turn the P.A.T. (Performance Assistant Technology) on. 4 Press the SONG CONTROL [PLAY/PAUSE] button to start playback. 4 5 Play the keyboard. Along with Song playback, try playing a bass line in the left hand area while playing various phrases or chords in the right hand area. Even if you do not know what notes should be played, don't worry and play any keys as desired! Only the harmonically "correct" notes matching the current chord are sounded, regardless of the notes you actually play. Current chord Song Playback - Playing and Practicing Songs - 6 Press the SONG CONTROL [STOP] button to stop playback. 7 Press the [6]/[7] button to turn the P.A.T. off. NOTE Selecting another Song may reset P.A.T. to OFF. CVP-701 Reference Manual 45

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CVP-701 Reference Manual
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Song Playback – Playing and Practicing Songs –
4
Playing Backing Parts with the Performance Assistant Technology
This feature lets you play your own backing parts on the keyboard along with Song playback, and have them
sound perfectly appropriate (even though you might be playing wrong notes).
1
Select a Song containing chord data.
The Performance Assistant Technology applies only to Songs containing chord data. To confirm whether
the selected Song contains chord data or not, return to the Main display, then start playback. If the current
Song contains chord data, the Main display shows the current chord type. After stopping playback, go to
the next step.
2
Call up the operation display.
[FUNCTION]
→
TAB [
L
][
R
] MENU1
→
[H] SONG SETTING
→
TAB [
L
][
R
] OTHERS
3
Press the [6

]/[7

] button to turn the P.A.T. (Performance Assistant Technology)
on.
4
Press the SONG CONTROL [PLAY/PAUSE] button to start playback.
5
Play the keyboard.
Along with Song playback, try playing a bass line in the left hand area while playing various phrases or
chords in the right hand area. Even if you do not know what notes should be played, don’t worry and play
any keys as desired! Only the harmonically “correct” notes matching the current chord are sounded,
regardless of the notes you actually play.
6
Press the SONG CONTROL [STOP] button to stop playback.
7
Press the [6

]/[7

] button to turn the P.A.T. off.
NOTE
Selecting another Song may reset P.A.T. to OFF.
Current chord