Groove Builder thoroughly examines the art
and science of "groove" by working through a variety of arrangements designed to
illustrate the interplay between bass, drums and various rhythm and lead guitar
parts. Students work through an intensive
curriculum focused on training their “ears” and improving
their rhythm, arrangement and composition
chops to achieve and maintain the all-important groove.
TrueFire's resident educational guru, Brad Carlton authored Groove Builder as a
follow-up to his highly popular Rhythmic Grooves
curriculum;
however the material is an ideal stand-alone course for students with a
relatively solid grasp of rhythmic figures.
Starting from the bottom up, Carlton demonstrates how to establish the
foundation of a groove with bass and drum parts. These sections of the course
teach students
of guitar how to “hear” and analyze what’s going
on rhythmically. This essential skill must be
developed to create rhythm guitar parts that lock solidly into
the groove; an ability that most intermediate
players have
not yet fully mastered.
Students works through a variety of grooves including 8th note, 16th note,
shuffle, straight, swing, R&B, rock, funk, ballad, fusion and blues. With each
groove, the bass and drum parts
are analyzed and the rhythm guitar parts are discussed
and created accordingly. This is a particularly “ear opening” series of lessons
for players of all levels.
Now the fun begins. Once all of the grooves
are established, the arrangements are flushed out and orchestrated with
additional
rhythm guitar parts, bubble parts and then melody and lead parts. This
construction process reveals all of the fundamentals and finesse required for
composing or arranging tunes as well
as learning how to “play nice with others” (read avoid train wrecks!) in any
band or jam setting.
If you compose, arrange, record, play
in a band or just jam with friends, Groove
Builder is a must for your practice regimen and reference library. As with most
Carlton study programs, this one’s no breeze and students need to be prepared to
invest the time to work through all of the material at their own pace.
Groove Builder is optimized for intermediate to advanced players and is
presented across 4 video software CD-ROMs (Windows and Mac compatible), features
80 full-length video lessons, text overviews, practice tracks, standard notation
and interactive Power Tab so you can "see" and "hear" the tab and notation
played out at any tempo. TrueFire's video lesson player features zoom, frame
advance, looping and other handy controls.
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System Requirements
This course is presented in
cross-platform Flash with PDF (tab notation) and Power Tab elements.
Power Tab (included) is only available for Windows but we also
include midi tab files for Mac users. All other components work
great on Mac.
Interactive Video
ulum;
however the material is an ideal stand-alone course for students with a
relatively solid grasp of rhythmic figures.
are analyzed and the rhythm guitar parts are discussed
and created accordingly. This is a particularly “ear opening” series of lessons
for players of all levels. 
our practice regimen and reference library. As with most
Carlton study programs, this one’s no breeze and students need to be prepared to
invest the time to work through all of the material at their own pace.
