Practicing
Practicing with a Song
Here’s how you can practice one hand at a time, or practice along with an accompaniment.
Selecting and Playing a Song
Let’s listen to the built-in songs. The HPi-50e provides a variety of built-in songs, which are organized into various categories.
* Copyright law prohibits unauthorized use of these built-in songs for any purpose other than personal enjoyment.
1.
Press the [Song] button .
The [Song] button will light, and the “Song” screen will
appear.
Category
Use the cursor [
] [
] buttons to select a
category. The songs you can select will depend on
the category.
You can also switch to a USB flash drive.
Song title
Indicates the title of the
currently selected song.
Song list
Use the up/down cursor
[ ] [ ] buttons to select a
song. The selection will be
highlighted in blue.
Icons
These are shown for songs that contain chord,
fingering, lyric, or performance marks.
SMF music data
Audio data
Lyrics
Fingering
Chords
Performance
marks
2.
Use the cursor [
] [
] buttons to select a category .
3.
Use the cursor [
] [
] buttons to select a song from the list .
If you hold down a cursor button, the selected song will change continuously.
4.
Press the [
] (Play/Stop) button .
When the song has played to its end, playback will stop.
To pause the playback, press the [
] (Play/Stop) button once again.
The next time you press the [
] (Play/Stop) button, playback will resume
from where you paused.
5.
Press the [Song] button or the [×] button to close the song screen .
Playing WAV or MIDI files (SMF) from your computer on the HPi-50e
1.
Copy the song data from your computer to a USB flash drive .
2.
Insert the USB flash drive into the HPi-50e .
3.
In the song select screen, choose “USB Memory” as the category .
4.
From the list, select and play the song that you copied to the USB flash drive .
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Category
Explanation
USB Memory
Songs saved on a USB flash drive
Favorites
Songs saved in Favorites (internal memory)
Masterpieces
The HPi-50e’s built-in songs
Selection
Kids
Beyer
Burgmüller
Czerny100
Czerny30
Hanon
Invention
* Depending on the data, it may
not be played back correctly.
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