Casio CTK-900 User Manual

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E-31Auto Accompaniment• It makes no difference whether you press black or white keysto the right of a major chord key when playing minor andseventh chords.FINGERED provides you with a total of 15 different chordtypes. The following describes the FINGERED“accompaniment keyboard” and “melody keyboard”, andtells you how to play a C-root chord using FINGERED.J FINGERED Accompaniment Keyboard and MelodyKeyboard• The accompaniment keyboard can be used for playingchords only. No sound will be produced if you try playingsingle melody notes on the accompaniment keyboard.See the “Fingered Chord Chart” on page A-11 for details onplaying chords with other roots.*1 Inverted fingerings cannot be used. The lowest note is theroot.*2 The same chord can be played without pressing the 5th G.• Except for the chords specified in note*1above, invertedfingerings (i.e. playing E-G-C or G-C-E instead of C-E-G) willproduce the same chords as the standard fingering.• Except for the exception specified in note*2 above, all of thekeys that make up a chord must be pressed. Failure to presseven a single key will not play the desired FINGERED chord.This accompaniment method provides a total of 38 differentchord types: the 15 chord types available with FINGEREDplus 23 additional types. The keyboard interprets any input ofthree or more keys that matches a FULL RANGE CHORDpattern to be a chord. Any other input (that is not a FULLRANGE CHORD pattern) is interpreted as melody play.Because of this, there is no need for a separateaccompaniment keyboard, so the entire keyboard, from endto end, functions as a melody keyboard that can be used forboth melody and chords.J FULL RANGE CHORD Accompaniment Keyboardand Melody KeyboardChords Recognized by This KeyboardThe following table identifies patterns that are recognizedas chords by FULL RANGE CHORD.FINGEREDFULL RANGE CHORDPattern Type Number of VariationsFINGEREDThe 15 chord patterns shown underFINGERED on page E-31. See the“Fingered Chord Chart” on page A-11for details on playing chords with otherroots.StandardFingerings23 standard chord fingerings. Thefollowing are examples of the 23 chordsavailable with C as the bass note.707A-E-033A