Roland TR-606 - Playing Rhythm Patterns

BASIC COURSE
(Cont'd)
Playing
Rhythm
Patterns
We have
just ptoyiamniBci
ten
Rhylhrn Patlorns.
We
will now play ihese Rhythm Patterns and
show some new functions.
PROCEDURE
1 .
Set
the rhythm to stop
position
by pressing
RUN/STOP
@
.
Kl.M
QuAJURY
nuN/STOP
2. Set the MODE
selector
(§)
to
PATTERN
PLAY.
3. Select Pattern Group
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(N)
PAT
T EHH GROUP
4. Select a
Rhythm Pattern
by pressing the
SELECTOR switch
(g)
(press
#1 in this
case).
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5. Press the RUN/STOP button
(H) to
start
the
rhythm
running.
6. Press
another SELECTOR switch
(K),
(press
H2
in this
case).
'
Ai the end of
the first
Rhyttim
Pat-
tern, the #2 Rhythm will begin to play
and
will
repeat.
7.
Press the SELECTOR switches
(g)
#2
and
#4
simultaneously.
•
The
LED indicators(L)
tt2,
#3,
and
#4
will light up, and the rhythms will play in
sequence
from
#2 to
tt3
to
tf4
and then
back to #2 again.
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This
is
called CHAINING THE RHYTHM
PA
TTERNS.
Rhythms
can be chained
up to four
rhythms
in
a
block.
The
TR-606 has
four
blocks, #1-4,
5-8.
9-12,
and
13-16.
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BLOCK
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NOTE:
The TR-606
can only
chain rhythms
within
the blocks
illustrated above,
it
cannot
for
example, chain from #3 to
ti6.
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15
BLOCK
Hi
BLOCK
IV
8. Press
the
SELECTOR switch
(g)
#1
again.
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The rhythm returns
to #1
rhythm
at
the
end of the
#4 rhythm and
repeats
rhythm
#/.
9. Press the
RUN/STOP
button
®
to stop the
rhythm.
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