Roland HP 38006 - Page 15

1. Playing Your HP 3800G/2800G
The Key Transpose feature allows you to have your music play in a different key, without actually changing your fin-
geting positions.
ft conveniently allows you to transpose a song in a difficult key (having numerous sharps and flats) into a key that is
cusier to play. or to quickly shift to a key that better suits a vocalist.
Example: Playing a song in E major using the fingering for C major.
1. While holding down -— » press the keyboard key representing the tonic of the
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new key you want to play.
In other words, you will want an E (“do” for E major) to be played when you play a C (“do” for C
major), if you intend to play a song in E major using the fingering for C major. So. you would hold
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down “= and press the E key.
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The indicator on MMMM lights, and thereafter whatever is played will be transposed.
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2. To return to the original key, press _ again, and check that its indicator has
gone out. ™
* There is also another way to make settings for key transposition. See page 28.
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