GarageBand Jessica Moidel Intro to Music Technology Final Presentation April 21, 2009

GarageBand: designed for? A great introductory program and easy to use tool to compose music for the accomplished musician, or even for people without any musical experience. Anyone with an interest in learning to play music This program can serve as a recording studio, a place for composition, to learn how to play instruments or record your own music. A great introductory program and easy to use tool to compose music for the accomplished musician, or even for people without any musical experience. Anyone with an interest in learning to play music This program can serve as a recording studio, a place for composition, to learn how to play instruments or record your own music.

This is Magic Jam Band virtual scene where you can play along with other instruments on your own acoustic by just plugging in your instrument to your computer!

What you can do with GarageBand GarageBand makes it easy to: -Change tempos to make learning at any pace possible. -Purchase select songs from itunes on your Mac where the actual lesson is taught by the artist! -Play along with the artist, and mute different aspects of the band/voice, so that you can be the featured soloist! -Learn to play Piano, Guitar or Keyboard using GarageBand lesson tutorials -Notations include: Chord names Chord Grids, Tab, Standard

How I use GarageBand -Film Scoring, I have used GarageBand to complete some of my first film scoring projects. -Upload my own short films through iMovie, and simply dragging the movie into the GarageBand program where I can begin my composition. -Compatible with all Mac programs (iDVD, iMovie) to use in congruence with each other! -Film Scoring, I have used GarageBand to complete some of my first film scoring projects. -Upload my own short films through iMovie, and simply dragging the movie into the GarageBand program where I can begin my composition. -Compatible with all Mac programs (iDVD, iMovie) to use in congruence with each other!

How to Begin a Project Open the GarageBand Icon on your computer, and open a new File for “New Movie Score” Create a title for your project and the window will open where you can begin your masterpiece. Find a video or film clip of your choice and save it to a flash drive, where it is easy to use ‘drag and drop’ or import into GarageBand through iMovie or iDVD. From here you can build your own musical lines or even use GarageBand’s large library of loops and clips to form a composition to accompany your film.

create Creating a song is easy with GarageBand You can record your voice, or an acoustic instrument, add drums loops/beats until you find just the right sound you want. You can cycle loops, cut or add them just as you please. Creating a song is easy with GarageBand You can record your voice, or an acoustic instrument, add drums loops/beats until you find just the right sound you want. You can cycle loops, cut or add them just as you please.

Recording a guitar: simply click record and play along with the already written cycle and then automatically loops for a second take. Complete recording and listen and choose which take you prefer, or drag them out to use all the recorded material! Acoustic instruments, plug directly into your computer and press record. Can modify using different presets such as echoes. When ready to record, simply press record and begin!

Can use the musical keyboard on your normal keyboard or even connect your own keyboard to play the software instrument. You can plug in any instruments. -Use drag and drop to change start/stop/loops etc. -Easy to isolate particular parts of your song by using the mute and solo buttons. Can also use pan left and right to help balance your parts. Using a Software Instrument:

This is a great introductory program to use to make yourself familiar with synchronizing music to motion by using beat, mood, rhythms and themes to highlight action. GarageBand makes it easy to create a ‘sample’ of a score you really would like to use as a source for a future original composition.

If you are already an accomplished musician, you may find yourself setting too low of standards and using the library of clips offered by GarageBand instead of creating your own. Many compositions may end up sounding very similar in style. Although it is a great feature that all programs such as iDVD, iMovie, iTunes and Garage are completely compatible, you must have a MAC and if you don’t have the latest versions of all the programs, it creates many problems, very quickly!

Publishing your compositions: You can easily upload songs to iTunes, or even create an iPhone ringtone, Podcast or burn a cd for a demo!

If you own or buy a Mac computer, GarageBand comes with it free. The program is unfortunately only available to Mac users, but this is just more incentive to become a Mac user!

Thank you!