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KR-11 – Easy fingering – Chord Intelligence
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Fill-Ins (transitions between Original and
Variation)
To Original and To Variation are two fills (or transi-
tions) you can use at the end of a musical phrase
(verse, chorus, bridge). The two buttons do two things
at a time:
Press these buttons now. Start with [TO VARIA-
TION], next press [TO ORIGINAL].
Think of a Fill as the moment in a song when the
drummer is allowed to play a roll and the bassist and
keyboard players vary their accompaniment by adding
a few notes here and there.
Fill-Ins last one bar, but you can produce shorter fills
by proceeding as follows: press [TO VARIATION] or
[TO ORIGINAL] on the first through the penultimate
beat of a bar (i.e. the 1st, 2nd or 3rd beat of a 4/4 bar,
or the 1st or 2nd beat of a 3/4 bar) to start the fill right
away. It will then last until the end of the current bar.
If you press the [TO VARIATION] or [TO ORIGI-
NAL] button on the last beat of the current bar, the fill
will start on the following downbeat and last an entire
bar.
Note: Every time you stop a Music Style in One Touch Pro-
gram ARRANGER mode, the KR-11 will select the Original
pattern again.
7.7 Easy fingering – Chord
Intelligence
As stated before, the Arranger relies on the chords you
play for choosing the key of the accompaniment. Play-
ing chords isn’t always easy, especially when you need
to concentrate on your melody. That is why the KR-11
features a function called Chord Intelligence.
It is intelligent in that it allows you to play major
chords by pressing just one key (the root note), while
minor chords can be played with two keys, and com-
plex chords with only three keys. Unlike other brands,
Roland uses a musical system for simplifying chord
fingering, so that once you understand the “intelli-
gent” versions, you will have little trouble supplying
the “missing” notes and playing full chords.
Note: Chord Intelligence is normally set to “On,” but you
can turn it off. See “Auto: changing the Arranger defaults”
on page 44.
Here is how to play chords in Chord Intelligent and
normal (without Chord Intelligence) modes. All
examples are based on a “C” chord. For other chords,
either count the distance of the indicated keys from
the root note, or refer to “Chord Intelligence” at the
end of this manual.
■ Major chords:
■ Minor chords (m):
■ Seventh chords (7):
■ Major Seventh chords (M7):
■ Minor seventh chords (m7):
■ Diminished (dim) chords:
■ Minor Major Seventh (mM7):
Note: Even in Chord Intelligence mode, you can play chords
the usual way. Sometimes, however, you may get a result
that doesn’t quite live up to your expectations. Furthermore,
the name of the chord that appears on the display may not
be the one you thought you were playing.
In Original mode In Variation mode
Plays the Original Fill.
Plays the Original Fill and
selects the Original pat-
tern.
Plays the Variation Fill
and selects the Variation
pattern.
Plays the Variation Fill.
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