Playing auto-accompaniment chords, Easy chords, Standard chords – Yamaha PORTABLEGRAND YPG-225 User Manual

Page 24: Playing styles, Easy chords ● standard chords, How to play standard chords

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Playing Styles

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DGX-220/YPG-225 Owner’s Manual

There are two ways of playing auto-accompaniment chords:

Easy Chords
Standard Chords

The instrument will automatically recognize the different chord types. This function is called Multi Fingering.

Press the [ACMP ON/OFF] button to turn auto-accompaniment on (page 20). The keyboard to the left of
the split point (default: 54/F#2) becomes the “accompaniment range”. Play the accompaniment chords in
this area of the keyboard.

Easy Chords

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This method lets you easily play chords in the
accompaniment range of the keyboard using only
one, two, or three fingers.

Standard Chords

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This method lets you produce accompaniment by
playing chords using normal fingerings in the
accompaniment range of the keyboard.

Playing Auto-accompaniment Chords

C

D

b

E

b

F

#

G

#

B

b

D

b

E

b

F

#

D E F G A B C D E F

Split point (default: 54/F#2)

Root notes and the corresponding keys

Accompaniment

range

• To play a major chord

Press the root note of the chord.

C

C

m

C

7

C

m7

• To play a minor chord

Press the root note together with the
nearest black key to the left of it.

• To play a seventh chord

Press the root note together with the
nearest white key to the left of it.

• To play a minor seventh chord

Press the root note together with the
nearest white and black keys to the left
of it (three keys altogether).

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C

mM7

C

M7

C

6

C

sus4

C

aug

C

M7aug

C

7aug

C

7sus4

C

1+2+5

C

7

C

m

C

dim

C

dim7

C

7

C

mM7

(

9

)

C

M7

(

9

)

C

m7

(

9

)

C

7

(

b9

)

C

7

(

b13

)

C

m7

(

11

)

C

M7

(

#11

)

C

(

b5

)

C

(

9

)

(

9

)

C

6

(

9

)

C

m

(

9

)

C

7

(

#11

)

C

7

(

#9

)

C

7

(

13

)

C

7

C

m6

C

m7

C

(

b5

)

C

M7

(

b5

)

C

m7

(

b5

)

C

mM7

(

b5

)

How to play Standard Chords

[Example for “C” chords]

* Notes enclosed in parentheses (

) are optional; the chords

will be recognized without them.

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