Yamaha DGX-650 Owner's Manual download pdf (Page 30)

Playing Styles

DGX-650 Owner’s Manual

Basic Guide

For users who are unfamiliar with chords, this chart shows the notes of common chords. Since there are

many useful chords and many different ways to use them musically, refer to commercially available

chord books for further details.

 indicates the root note.

• A wide variety of chord types can be recognized as well as the above chord types.

• Depending on the chord type, inversions can be used as well as in “root” position.

• Some chord types may not be recognized if some notes are omitted.

Chords

Major Minor Seventh Minor Seventh Major Seventh

Easy Chords

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

For a root of “C”

To play a major chord

Press the root note () of

the chord.

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).

Changing the Chord Fingering type

There are three different Chord Fingering Types. For details, refer to page 61.

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