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Playing Styles
PSR-S500 Owner’s Manual
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You learned how to select a Style rhythm on the preceding page.
Here we’ll see how to add bass and chord accompaniment to the basic rhythm to produce a full, rich accom-
paniment that you can play along with.
1
Select and press the desired Style category button in the
Style section.
Press the [EXIT] button to return to the Main display.
2
Turn automatic accompaniment on.
Press the [ACMP] button.
Pressing this button a second time will turn automatic accompaniment
off.
3
Turn Sync Start on.
Press the [SYNC START] button to turn the Sync Start function on.
When Sync Start is on, the bass and chord accompaniment included in a
Style will start playing as soon as you play a note to left of the keyboard
split point. To cancel or disable Sync Start, press the button a second
time to turn the Sync Start function off.
Playing Along with a Style
●
When automatic accompaniment is on ...
The area of the keyboard to the left of the split point (54: F
#
2) becomes the
“auto accompaniment region” and is used only for specifying the
accompaniment chords.
[ACMP] button is lit.
• The Split point can be changed
as required; refer to page 59.
NOTE
Split point (54: F
#
2)
Auto accompa-
niment region
Flashes when Sync Start is on.