What is GarageBand?

Series Summary

In the past decade the art of audio recording, editing and mixing has been one that has steadily become more available to the public. Today with a computer and a program like Garage Band you can make any kind of music you want and use the program to piece it together and mix it. Garage Band is a perfect example of the ease at which anyone can be creative at music and a testament to the fact that we all have music and creativity saved up in us that is trying to be let out.

This is a great video series that addresses all the wonderful possibilities that you can do with Garage Band. Our expert, Bill MacPherson, walk you through everything step by step and shows you just how easy it is to start a new session and either use the built in loops that come with Garage Band or how to record your own instruments live. He shows you how to edit the loops and the real audio from your instrument and also how to add video to the audio you have created. Garage Band is the perfect thing for any musician whether advanced or beginner. It is easy, fun and powerful!

Video Transcript

"Hello this is Bill Macpherson for Expert Village in this series of clips we're going to be talking about garageband '08 first off when you launch garageband it will come up with this window. Right now we're going to choose to "open an existing project" we're going to choose show demo songs, and we'll open up the shuffling blues. You can see it set us up with drums, bass, guitar, harmonica you can take a listen to it (playing) in this main window it's basically what your going to be doing everything. You can see this where your tracks are this is the mixer for the tracks right here is your timeline you can see where your tracks are set up. They can be moved by dragging easily and you can also change your size and cut them. Down here is where you'll find places where you can make edits to these loops if you click this little eyeball here that will bring up all our loops in garageband. And this little plus button is how to add a new track you click this button it will come up with a message showing do you want to create a new software instrument or real instrument track, create a software instrument hit create, that's how you create a new track, I'm Bill Macpherson for Expert Village."