Having had several PSR keyboards over the last 25 years, the PSR330
my last, I have always just used the simplest single finger mode to
play the accompianments. The PSR2000 is a much more powerful
instrument than I have ever played before. I've had mine 4 weeks now
and still have basically used the single finger mode. That is until 3
days ago when I downloaded Gary Diamond's gig disk #1 from the PSR
Tutorial site. This disk is a great collection of favorite songs in
style format that loaded perfectly into my PSR2000. The first thing I
noticed when starting to play the first song is that Gary had his
preferences setup in the registrations. Full Finger mode was the
default on all his songs. As luck would have it I just started
playing full chords and went thru a few of the styles before
realizing that while a chord progression was playing you could play a
left hand selected voice OVER the chord playing! You can really add
some embellishments to the style playing this way.......I mean it
really blowed me away on how much better the styles could be by
adding extra left hand notes to an already playing style. I tried the
same thing by going back to single finger mode and could not
accomplish the same thing. For me this is really a pioneering
newfound discovery and I spent the next several hours playing some
older styles I was familier with in full fingered mode adding extra
left hand with very surprizing results. It didn't take that long to
get comfortable playing full chords either. I thought I read the
manual thoroughly but never heard of this before. Maybe all you full
fingered players already discovered this?
So LISTEN all you single finger players...........You are really
missing a lot by not at least trying full finger mode. Does anyone
use any of the "intelligent" fingering modes? I haven't quite
figured them out yet..................I'm really looking forward to
using all those chords and progressions I have been studying!!
Happy Playing -- charley