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1. Press the VOICE button.
2. On the numbers pad press 001 to select the Piano sound
3. Insert the disk into the keyboard disk drive
WAIT! until the disk loaded fully
4. Select the PAGE NUMBER of your song using the YES/+ or the NO/- buttons.
5. Press the square red START/STOP button to start and stop the accompaniment.
6. Count 8 clicks before starting to play*.
* (Except in songs in 3/4 time where you count 6!)
Note: The most common mistake is selecting
the song number by punching in its number. Please remember to
use the YES/+ or NO/- keys instead.
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While the song is playing Press the TEMPO/TAP button once.
Change the tempo by pressing the YES/+ or the NO/- buttons to increase or decrease the speed.
Note: The adjusted tempo is not stored to memory. If you switch to another song the new setting will have to be re-entered!!!
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Click one of the SONG MEMORY buttons to deactivate (MUTE) or activate any part of the accompaniment.
1 is the TEACHER TRACK
5 is the CLICK
2,3,4, and A are the BAND
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When the accompaniment is too loud relative to your playing it is no use turning the main volume knob down, because that will make your own playing also softer. To reduce the level of the accompaniment without affecting your own playing do the following:
Press the ELONGATED BUTTON TO THE RIGHT OF THE DISPLAY WINDOW 5 times.
This will bring you to Song Volume menu.
Reduce the volume to the desired level (usually in the 50-60 range)
Note: This reduced song level stays for other songs too until you change it back to its default value (100)
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1. First learn to play the song just with the teacher part 1. Remove parts 2,3,4,and A by pressing Song Memory buttons 2,3,4 and A.
2. Adjust the Tempo as described above and play along with the TEACHER track.
3. Now Press the 2,3,4, and A buttons again. This will bring back the band and the rest of the accompaniment. Play along with the BAND.
4. Finally, press all the buttons except 5. This will mute everything. Now try playing the song by yourself !!!!!!
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My Disk is Stuck:
Should a disk get stuck in the disk drive NEVER PULL ON IT! You may damage the drive. Call us at 413-637-1168 and we can either advise you what to do or ask you to bring the keyboard over and we'll pull the disk out for you.
How to prevent disks from getting stuck:
We constantly remind students not to touch the metal part of the disk. Periodically check to see if the metal part is flush with the surface of the disk. If not, discard the disk immediately and we will replace it. A damaged disk can damage you keyboard!! (We replace the first disk for free and charge $2 thereafter).
I can't find my song:
Press the grey Song button. You must be in Song mode to be able to switch to another song. If all fails, eject the disk and re-insert it again.
The keyboard is doing weired things:
Eject the disk. Power down. Wait for 10 seconds. Power up again. In 9 out of 10 cases this will get the gremlins out of your keyboard. If this doesn't do it. call us.
Important!
Any time your child completes one of our books and moves to the next level, you must install the songs for the new book into your keyboard, using the floppy disk that comes with the book and a computer.
If you do not have a computer, or don't want to do this on your own, we can do it for you. Just call Peter at 413-637-1168 to make an appointment to bring your keyboard over, so we can install the new songs.
What you will need:
What to do:
Installing the software
1. Insert the CD-ROM into the computer and install the USB driver and the Musicsoft Downloader software by following the instructions in your keyboard's Owner's Manual on pages 71-73.
2. Disconnect the keyboard from the computer.
Erasing the old songs
3. With the keyboard turned OFF, hold down the following keys at the extreme right side of the keyboard:
the last white note
the three black notes to the left of it
4. Turn the keyboard ON while holding down all these keys. This erases the old songs from memory
5. Turn the keyboard OFF
Copying the new songs to the computer
6. Insert the floppy disk that came with the new song book into the computer
7. Create a folder on the desktop (you can name it anything)
8. Copy the content of the floppy disk to the new folder
9. Eject the floppy disk
Downloading the new songs to the keyboard
10. With the keyboard turned OFF, connect one end the USB cable to the USB port at the back of your keyboard and the other end to the USB port on the computer
11. Follow the instructions for downloading the songs into the keyboard on page 68 of your keyboard Owner's Manual.
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1. Turn the keyboard on
2. Press the SONG button
3. Press the 
Minus button to
get to the first song - Bk1_P08.
4. Keep pressing the MINUS button to go to the next song and the PLUS button to go back.
5. Press the START/STOP button to start and end the song.
How to select what you hear in the song
1. Find the Song Memory buttons. These are 6 grey buttons, numbered: 1,2,3,4,5, and A.
2. Each of these numbers is also on the bottom of your screen window.
3. Press any of the buttons and that number disappears from the window. Press it again and the number re-appears.
4. Numbers: 2,3,4, and A are the "band" or the accompaniment. Take these numbers out by pressing them and they'll disappear from the window.
5. You're left with numbers: 1 and 5 in the window. 1 is the "teacher". It plays your song. 5 is the "click". It plays eight clicks before the song starts playing.
6. Press the START/STOP button to hear the the clicks followed by your song.
7. To stop the song, press the START/STOP button again.
How to slow down and speed up the song
1. Find the * button (next to the Start button).
2. Now press the START/STOP button, and right away press the Tempo/Tap button.
3. To slow down the song press the MINUS button many times. To speed up the song, press the PLUS button many times.
4. When you found a speed that you think you can play along with, stop the song, find your finger position, and push the START/STOP again. Count the 8 clicks, and start playing along with the keyboard.
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