Hi all, I'm brand new here, a beginner with an SX700, from Australia (as the username clearly suggests
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At the moment, after around 12 months of practising, I can basically accompany a singer when she sings musically-not-too-complicated songs. I want to improve my accompaniment skills further but don't always have a singer available to practise with. I think I could do it in one of the following ways:
1/ Play and record the melody part of a song that I'd like to practise. Then play it back and accompany it with a pre-set arrangement of style, voice, etc. Again and again and again with gradually increasing levels of accompanying sophistication.
or
2/ Downloaded from internet an mp3 song that I like into an USB. Plug that USB into the keyboard, then arrange a set of style, voice, tempo, etc. that matches the song, and then play the song and accompany it with that pre-set arrangement... as above.
I have just started this and haven't been very successful with either of those ways above.
Has anybody ever tried to do something similar before for the same reason? If "yes", would you like to share your experience please?
Or does anyone has any suggestions to help me with my accompaniment practice?
Thank you