Bontempi MUSIC METHOD System 5 B 409, Owner'S Manual

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LEVEL 3: Melody
Now you are ready to play the tune of a song. If you go wrong the orchestra will play the accompaniment with your mista-
kes. All the keys will play and the orchestra will not wait for you.
Level 3 – The tune. Off we go!
Choose a song and select System 5 - Level 3 . Press start/stop and begin playing.
If you hit the wrong note the song will be out of tune. If you do not follow the right tempo the orchestra will not wait and
you will be out of tempo. Try to follow the notes of the tune on the music score of the Music Book.
LEVEL 4: Chord
Until now we have talked about the tune, now we will try with the accompaniment. Information about the score can be
found above and below the blue strip (grey in these instructions).
To play the accompaniment, hold each chord for the time indicated by
the line next to the letter representing the chord until you come to the
next one.
How to play the chords:
It may seem difficult to play a chord or, in other words, press a combination of 3 or more keys, but the keyboard offers
you the chance to use two performance modes:
Easy Chord and Free Chord .
1. EASY CHORD
Easy Chord is the first level of chord playing.
The keyboard is automatically split into two parts and you can play the Bontempi single finger chords.
The Bontempi music method uses three types of chords:
major chord , minor chord , and seventh chord :
To form major chord , (for example C Major) by means of the control Single Finger Chord, all you need do is press
with one finger on the key which corresponds to the same letter C.
To play a
minor chord , (for example C Minor) you must press the key corresponding to the letter C together with
any key to the right of this one - e.g. (the one on it’s immediate right).
To form a seventh chord , (for example C Seventh) you should press the key which corresponds to the letter C
together with any 2 keys to its right - e.g. (the next two on the right).
To help you play the chords, little black squares are shown next to the relative symbols. These squares indicate the number
of fingers needed to play each chord.
You may need to form a chord on a flat note, which corresponds to a black key (e.g. =
D flat major). In this case, the chord is played by pressing the black key immediately to the
left of the D key.
To form a chord on a sharp note (e.g.
= D sharp major), the chord is played by pressing
the black key immediately to the right of the D key.
More complex chords, such as chords on a flat or sharp note, minor or seventh, for example
or , are formed by pressing the black key corresponding to the letter C or
D and any other two keys (white or black) to the right of the previous one.
To facilitate playing the chords, the black squares next to the symbol indicate the number of
fingers necessary for forming the chord.
The table with all the chords is at the end of the Music Book.
MAJOR
CHORD
MINOR
CHORD
SEVENTH
CHORD
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