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Play a style
Thirty new lessons open the Music tier — rock, funk, hip-hop, house, breaks and reggae, over two real electric basses — and setup now asks what you play on instead of guessing it from your USB port.
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Forty new lessons, and an app to play them in
22 playable lessons become 62: Foundations grows to five stages with Space, The Cymbals and Two Bars, Vocabulary opens on 16ths, triplets and the shuffle — and Groove Academy installs to a home screen.
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Play without a kit
Your computer keyboard and a grid of on-screen pads are now instruments the app listens to, so a lesson is playable with no hardware and on a phone for the first time — and the highway arrives from further off.
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Bring your kit
Electronic drum kits are set up as kits now, pedals and all, with your own instrument drawn beside the lesson — and the catalogue opens on four tiers instead of one long list.
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Your practice, on every device
An optional account backs up your progress and stats and brings them back on any device, a drummer's words land between lessons, and the practice heatmap fits the window it is drawn in.
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Lessons that finish, and a highway that fits
Patterns now land on the bar line instead of running out, four lessons borrow a hi-hat to keep time against, the highway comes in three sizes, and 4.5 Paradiddle Groove is written.
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Groove Academy On Air!
Groove Academy is live: lessons scroll, your hits are scored, and your practice history stays in your browser. No account, nothing to install.
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