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Find That Groove

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Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.

A few of the words

BACKBEAT
The backbeat, a hard accent on beats two and four, is the engine of soul and R&B, giving the music its forward-leaning urgency.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
POCKET
Musicians say a rhythm section is 'in the pocket' when the bass and drums lock so tightly that the groove feels almost suspended in time.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
SYNCOPATE
Syncopation, accenting the offbeat rather than the downbeat, is one of the defining features of African American musical traditions that shaped soul, jazz, and funk.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
VAMP
A vamp is a short repeating figure, often just two or four chords, that a band holds while a singer works the crowd or a soloist finds their moment.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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About Find That Groove

Long before a song had a name, it had a feeling, a locked-in rhythmic pocket where the bass and drums moved as one, and everything else just rode. Motown's session musicians, famously known as the Funk Brothers, built that pocket night after night in a basement studio on West Grand Boulevard in Detroit, laying down backbeats so irresistible that dancers couldn't stay still. That conversation between rhythm and feel, the snap of a snare, the lick of a guitar, the steady vamp of a chord, is the invisible architecture behind every great soul record.

How to play

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    Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last. The trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
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    Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
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    It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
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