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Tutorial
Playing a Style (Automatic Accompaniment)
7. TUTORIAL
This chapter is fully devoted to step‐by‐step instruc‐
tions,thatwehopemaybe usefultolearnthebasics—
inthefield.
PLAYING A STYLE
(Automatic Accompaniment)
A Style will be your virtual band for your best solos.
Selectoneofthe304Styleswefittedinthismachine…
1 OK, select your favorite musical Style.
There are plenty of Styles to choose from. We will go
withaJazzStyle—the“Jazz
Brush”.
1. Selectthesecondrow ofStyles.Presstheleftmost
STYLE
buttontoswitchthelowerLEDon.
2. Now,youarefreetopress buttonnumber4,called
“JAZZ1”.
Th
eSt
yleSelectwindowappears.
3. Press one of the A VOLUME/VALUE buttons to
sel
ect“JazzBrush”.
2 Call an Intro.
Yo
ucanengageanIntrotobeplayedbeforetheStyle.
Press INTRO1 or INTRO2
. The former plays more
freely,withoutlettingyoudecidethechords.Thelatter
letsyouplayachordprogressionwhileit’splaying.
3 Start the Style!
Playachord,andpresstheSTART/STOPbutton.
Then begin playing. Usually (when the SPLIT LED is
on)chordsarerecognizedunderthespli
tpoint,i.e.on
the Lower part of the keyboard. With the UPPER or
FULL Chord Scanning mode, you must play three or
morenotestohaveachordrecognized.
4 Play your chords and your melody.
Go on playing. As yo
u may notice, the microAR‐
RANGER features a very sophisticate chord rec
ogni‐
tion engine. Recognized chords are shown in the
displa
y.
5 Make a break—or should we say “a fill”?
During your playing, you are free to call a one‐bar
break.Tr
yit:
PRESS BREAK
Doyousee?Musicstoppedforonebar.Then,itisback
again.Afterawhile,le
t’sgofor somethingdifferent…
PRESS FILL1 OR FILL2
No silence, this time. microARRANGER plays a com‐
plex
passagetoletyoutakeabreath.FILL1isthesim‐
pler
one, where FILL2 is more sophisticated. Us
ually,
youwilluseFILL1whenplayingwithVa riations1and
2(themosteasy),FILL2whenworkingwithVariations
3and4(morecomplexones).
6 Select other Variations.
TherearefourVARIATIO
Nbuttons.Thesearefour dif‐
ferentversionsofthesameStyle.Trythemall!
Youcangotoa
VariationafteraFill
.JustpressaFILL
button, then, immediately after press a VARIATION
button.
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