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Radio Shack MD-1700 - Full-Range Chords; Using Auto Harmonize

Radio Shack MD-1700
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19
Operation
Note
: See “Fingered Chord Chart” on Page
50 for a list of all the chords you can play on
your keyboard using standard fingering ac-
companiment.
1. Repeatedly press
MODE
until the FIN-
GERED indicator lights.
2. Select and enter an auto-rhythm.
3. To start the auto-rhythm before your
auto accompaniment, press
START/
STOP
or
INTRO
. Or, to synchronize the
start of the selected auto-rhythm with
your accompaniment, press
SYNCHRO/
ENDING
.
4. Begin the accompaniment at the desired
interval by pressing at least three
accompaniment keys to play the desired
chord. To play a melody along with the
accompaniment, press any key(s) to the
right of the accompaniment keys.
5. Adjust
TEMPO
and
VOLUME
to the
desired levels.
6. To change chords without interrupting
the rhythm, simply press the auto
accompaniment keys required to form
the new chord.
7. To stop auto accompaniment and the
auto-rhythm, press
START/STOP
(or
SYNCHRO/ENDING
to end with a special
pattern).
Full-Range Chords
While the concert chord and standard finger-
ing methods limit chord formations to the ac-
companiment keys, the full-range chord
method lets you play chords of any type us-
ing any of the keyboard’s keys.
Repeatedly press
MODE
until the FULL
RANGE CHORD indicator lights, and follow
the steps under “Standard Fingering” on
Page 18. If you press three or more keys
anywhere on the keyboard that form a chord,
the keyboard plays that chord. The keyboard
responds with melody sounds if you press
fewer than three keys.
Notes:
In the full-range chord mode, the key-
board recognizes these 23 chords in
addition to the 15 chords in the standard
fingering mode (examples show C as
the base note):
When the composite notes of a chord
are more than five notes apart, the low-
est sound becomes the base note.
Using Auto Harmonize
When you use auto-accompaniment in the
fingered or concert chord modes, press
AUTO HARMONIZE
to automatically add har-
mony to your melodies.
AUTO HARMONIZE
appears, and the keyboard adds harmony
based on the chord playing on the accompa-
niment key section.
Notes:
Auto harmonize does not work when
you select full range chord auto accom-
paniment or no auto accompaniment.
You cannot use Auto Harmonize and
Layer at the same time.
The harmony melody in Auto Harmonize
mode uses Channel 2. You can change
the tone or volume setting of the har-
C6 Cm6 C69 Gm7/C A add
9/C
E/C
F/C G/C A /C C#/C D/C C#m/
C
Dm/
C
Fm/
C
Gm/C B/C B/C A7/
C
F7/C Fm7/
C
Am/C B m/C Dm7
-5
/
C

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