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Each of the three Groovy Music programs is designed to be used by a different age group, with more complex musical ideas being explored as children progress through the series. Each program has its own 'theme', with exciting and engaging graphics to appeal to the age group for which it’s designed.

And best of all, the programs are incredibly easy to use, so you won’t waste time on setting them up and learning how they work.

Groovy Shapes
Shapes are used to represent elements of music such as rhythms, melodies and chords.

As your chosen character walks across the screen, the shapes play their sounds. A library of preset sounds is included, which children can simply drag onto the screen to build up their musical creation.

Then they can play back their piece, edit it, or even see the elements displayed as music notation.

Groovy Shapes Overview

• Teaches basic musical concepts in a fun and easy way
• Children create music using shapes to represent sounds
• Supported by easy-to-follow lesson plans

Groovy Jungle
Groovy Jungle introduces children to notes and notation, ostinato, major and minor, and simple musical terms. More complex musical textures are explored, and additional instruments allow them to experiment further with their own compositions.Groovy Jungle Overview

• Add music to a composition by recording from a keyboard or other MIDI instrument
• View compositions in a full score display
• Create and edit text
• Jungle-themed Create mode with sounds represented by animals and plants

Groovy Jungle
The third installment in the Groovy Music series of programs for primary school children, Groovy City helps children learn and create music in a futuristic cityscape.

Designed for 9- to 11-year-olds, Groovy City delves deeper into music notation and provides more complex listening tasks. Children are also introduced to question and answer phrases and the blues scale, so that they can begin to build up more sophisticated compositions.

Groovy City Overview

• Teaches more complex musical concepts, including notation and musical terminology
• Full range of 128 General MIDI instruments
• Futuristic city-themed Create mode
• Choice of sound libraries for House, hip-hop, classical, jazz and more

 

Windows

• Windows 98/2000/XP or Mac OS X 10.2 or later
• 800Mhz processor or faster (1.4GHz for Groovy Jungle and City)
• 128MB+ RAM (512MB+ for Groovy Jungle and City)
• 100MB free hard disk space
• 16-bit sound card
• CD-Rom drive required for installation