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Roland Styles

What is a Style?

Patterns (Divisions)
Styles are short sequences, or patterns (of four or eight measures) you can select in realtime. If you have ever worked with a drum computer or groove box, the pattern concept may sound familiar. Pattern-based accompaniments usually consist of the following elements:
• The basic groove, i.e. the rhythm that is the backbone of the song.

• Several alternatives for the basic groove that keep the accompaniment interesting and suggest some kind of “evolution” or “variation”.

• Fill-Ins to announce the beginning of new parts.

• An introduction and a closing section (ending). Programming four to eight patterns for a threeminute song is usually enough. Just use them in the right order to make them suitable for your song. The G-70 allows you to program 54 different patterns per Style, some of which can be selected via dedicated buttons (MAIN [1]~[4], etc.). Some Patterns are selected on the basis of the chords you play in the chord recognition area of the keyboard (major, minor, seventh