What Is Garage Band?

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, Matt Nichols, 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!

"Hey everybody, my name is Matt and I am speaking to you on behalf of Expert Village. Today I am going to be teaching about garage band. What a garage band is a digital audio workstation which basically means it is a piece of software that lets you record and then you can mix together and loop audio tracks and you can create some pretty cool music with it. This is what garage band looks like. Over here on the left, you see I've got my different tracks. I've got some controls down here and those are all the tracks that I have mixed together. Garage band is exclusively for the Mac and one of the great things about it is it becomes pre-installed on a Mac. Garage band isn't quite as robust and complicated as some of the other digital audio workstations such as cubase or cakewalk but it is free and like I said you can create some really cool music with it. You can also do things like you can create broadcasts and even score movies to it so we will get into that a little bit later. So let's go ahead and get started with garage band."