Groove Academy

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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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