Playing Auto Accompaniment Chords
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PSR-A300 Owner’s Manual
Looking up Chords Using the Chord Dictionary
The Dictionary function is essentially a built-in “chord dictionary” that
shows you the individual notes of chords. It is ideal when you know the
name of a certain chord and want to quickly learn how to play it.
1
Press and hold the [WAITING] button for longer than a second.
“Dict.” will appear in the display.
2
As an example, we’ll learn how to play a GM7 (G major seventh)
chord. Press the “G” key in the root section of the keyboard. (The note
doesn’t sound.) The root note you set is shown in the display.
3
Press the “M7” (major seventh) key in the chord section of the key-
board. (The note doesn’t sound.)
The notes you should play for the specified chord (root note and chord
type) are shown in the display, both as notation and in the keyboard
diagram.
To call up possible inversions of the chord, press the [+]/[-] buttons.
4
Try playing a chord in the auto accompaniment section of the key-
board, checking the indications in the display.
When you’ve played the chord properly, a bell sound signals your suc-
cess and the chord name in the display flashes.
Dict.
Hold for longer
than a second.
Dict.
001
C D
D
#
E
b
E F
F
#
G
b
G
G
#
A
b
A
A
#
B
b
B
C
#
D
b
Keys for root
dictionary
Keys for chord type
dictionary
• Major chords are usually
indicated by the root name
only. For example, the indi-
cation “C” in a score refers
to a “C Major” chord. To
look up the fingering for a
major chord press the root
key and then the M chord
type key.
NOTE
Dict.
001
(9)
mM7
m(9)
m7(9)
m7
b
5
7(9)
7(
b
13)
dim7
7aug
7sus4
M
G
M7
m
m6
m7
7
7(
b
9)
7(
#
9)
7(13)
7(
#
11)
dim
aug
sus4
Individual notes of chord
(keyboard)
Notation of chord
Chord name (root
and type)
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