Garageband for iPad + iPhone - A Beginner's Guide

Garageband can often feel overly complicated to the novice musician creator: learning the four main screens of Garageband is an ideal way to become familiar with the creative potential of the app.

This lesson focuses on the metronome, a repetitive noise that helps you keep time.

In this lesson we explore Quantization, a function that automatically corrects your playing to fit a pre-determined sequence.

This lesson covers other keyboard controls that create patterns out of your playing, raise/ lower the octave of your sounds, and extend the reverb and decay of your sounds.

Editing tracks is a simple matter of cutting and reorganizing elements.  We cover how to do this here.

This lesson focuses on creating our song structure and extending/ repeating parts through a technique known as looping.

In this lesson I show you how to bring your own custom loops into the Garageband iOS app via iTunes.

Here we cover how to plug our electric guitars directly into Garageband iOS and make use of the virtual amplifiers within the app.  We cover tuning in Garageband, saving our own custom amps, monitoring, and the device called the iRig which is needed to plug the guitar in.

In this lesson, we cover more unusual guitar sounds from sound packs and third party apps, as well as copying and layering guitar sounds.

Here I show you how I use the Sampler keyboard to take a human voice and make it a unique instrument in our track.

IOS devices have hundreds of additional music apps available, and in this lesson, we show how to record those apps in our Garageband interface.