Radio Shack MD-1160 - Using the Chord Book

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Operation
• When you play an aug, 7
–
5
, or dim7
chord, the lowest note you play
determines the root of the chord. Be
sure that your fingering correctly
defines the root you want.
Note
: See “Standard Fin
g
erin
g
Chord
Charts” on Pa
g
e 27 for a list of all the
chords
y
ou can pla
y
on
y
our ke
y
board
usin
g
standard fin
g
erin
g
accompani-
ment.
Follow these steps to start standard fin-
g
erin
g
auto accompaniment.
1. Set
POWER/MODE
to
FINGERED
.
2. Select and enter an auto-rh
y
thm.
3. To start the auto-rh
y
thm before
y
our
auto accompaniment, press
START/
STOP
.
Or, to s
y
nchronize the start of the
selected auto-rh
y
thm with
y
our
accompaniment, press
SYNCHRO/
FILL-IN
.
4. Be
g
in the accompaniment at the
desired interval b
y
pressin
g
at least
three accompaniment ke
y
s to pla
y
the desired chord.
To pla
y
a melod
y
alon
g
with the
accompaniment, press an
y
ke
y(
s
)
to
the ri
g
ht of the accompaniment
ke
y
s.
5. Ad
j
ust the tempo,
MAIN VOLUME
,
and
ACCOMP VOLUME
to the de-
sired levels.
6. To chan
g
e chords without interrupt-
in
g
the rh
y
thm, simpl
y
press the
auto accompaniment ke
y
s re
q
uired
to form the new chord.
7. To stop auto accompaniment and
the auto-rh
y
thm, press
START/STOP
.
USING THE CHORD BOOK
You can use
y
our ke
y
board’s chord
book displa
y
feature to see which ke
y
s
to press and which fin
g
ers to use to form
a chord. You can also displa
y
the name
of a chord
y
ou pla
y
.
Follow these steps to use the chord
book feature.
1. Press
CHORD BOOK
.
Chord Bk
appears.
2. Press
CLEAR
(
0
)
to clear an
y
previ-
ous chord entr
y
.
3. If
y
ou want to see information about
a ma
j
or chord while
y
ou pla
y
it, skip
to Step 4. Otherwise
(
if the desired
chord name is a minor chord
)
, enter
the chord’s name usin
g
that chord’s
ke
y
s on the numeric ke
y
pad.
For example, to enter a minor 7
–
5
chord, press
m
(
8
)
7
(
9
)
–5
(
2
)
as
shown below. Or, to enter 7sus4,
press
7
(
9
)
and
sus4
(
1
)
.
4. Press the root ke
y
on the accompa-
niment ke
y
board to pla
y
the chord.
As the chord pla
y
s, the displa
y
shows the chord
y
ou entered, the
ke
y
s to press to form the chord
(
on
the bottom “ke
y
board”
)
, the fin
g
ers
y
ou need to use to pla
y
the chord
(
on the center “hands”
)
, and the
notes that make up the chord
(
on
the staff displa
y)
.
5. Use
–
or
+
to scroll throu
g
h the
chords associated with the root