Specifications
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- SPECIAL MESSAGE SECTION
- FCC INFORMATION (U.S.A.)
- PRECAUTIONS
- Main Features
- Contents
- Panel Controls and Terminals
- Setting Up
- Quick Guide
- Panel Display Indications
- Portable Grand
- Playing Voices
- Effects
- Selecting and Playing Styles
- Using the Music Database
- Registration Memory
- Selecting and Playing Songs
- Song Recording
- Song Lesson
- Disk Operations
- MIDI Functions
- Troubleshooting
- Data Backup & Initialization
- Voice List
- Style List
- Music Database List
- Drum Kit List
- MIDI Implementation Chart
- Effect map
- Keyboard Stand Assembly (DGX-500 only)
- Specifications
- Index

Selecting and Playing Styles
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Dictionary
The Dictionary function is essentially a built-in “chord book” that shows you the
individual notes of chords. It is ideal when you know the name of a certain chord
and want to quickly learn how to play it.
1 Press the [DICTIONARY] button.
2 Specify the root of the chord.
Press the key on the keyboard that corresponds to the desired chord root (as
printed on the panel).
3 Specify the type of the chord (major, minor, seventh, etc.).
Press the key on the keyboard that corresponds to the desired chord type (as
printed on the panel).
• Pressing the [DICTIONARY] but-
ton automatically turns on the
auto accompaniment.
Dict.
001
Dict.
001
Pressing this key selects the root G.
Individual notes of chord (keyboard)
Pressing this key selects the
major seventh chord type (M7).
Notation of chord
Chord name (root and type)
Dict.
001
• For a few specific chords, not all
notes may be shown in the nota-
tion section of the display. This is
due to space limitations in the
display.
• You can also show the inversion
of chord when using [+]/[-] button.