Playing Styles; Playing A Style - Yamaha PF-1000 Owner's Manual

Playing Styles

Playing Styles
The PF-1000 has a huge variety of musical "styles" that you can call upon to back up your own
performance. They give you anything from a simple, yet effective piano backing or percussion
accompaniment to a full band or orchestra.
Style related buttons

Playing a style

1
Select a style group and a style.
If the MAIN screen is not displayed, press the [DIRECT ACCESS] button followed by the [EXIT] button.
POP & ROCK POP BALLADS DANCE SWING & JAZZ
For this example, DANCE is
selected.
2
Turn ACMP on.
The specified left-hand section of the keyboard becomes the "Auto Accompaniment" section, and chords
played in this section are automatically detected and used as a basis for fully automatic accompaniment with
the selected style.
ACMP
3
Turn SYNC.START on.
SYNC.START
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Quick Guide
R & B COUNTRY LATIN
STYLE
For this example,
EuroTrance is selected.
Split Point
Auto Accompaniment
section
A
B
C
D
E
Reference
on page 59
Press the [BACK]/[NEXT] button to
select the memory location of the
style. For this example, PRESET is
selected.
• The point on the key-
board that separates the
auto accompaniment sec-
tion and the right-hand
section of the keyboard is
called the "split point."
Refer to page 127 for
instructions on setting the
split point.