GarageBand: A Comprehensive Guide to Making Music
What you'll learn
- By the end of the course, you will be able to make a rhythm track, melody track, backing tracks, and vocal track, among others. You will learn how to mix them together to make them sound like a cohesive end-product. You will be able to create short jingles for things such as TV ads or YouTube channel intros.
- You will be able to use a variety of software instruments to realize your dream of making music.
Requirements
- A Mac running Garageband V. 10, which is available on the Mac App Store.
- For Vocals, your Mac will need a microphone of some sort; don't worry, most modern Macs have them built in.
- A USB/MIDI Piano Keyboard will help you move faster, but it is certainly not required.
Description
The goal of this course is to give you an moderately in-depth look at the facilities GarageBand offers you to make music. Since this is a fairly straight-forward piece of software compared to its big brother, Logic Pro, I will help you squeeze maximum productivity out of GarageBand in a relatively short amount of time.
The first thing you will learn are the basic sectors of GarageBand and their functions. Following this, I will dive into the individual sectors of the software, one at a time, and then eventually help you to integrate them together to create a final product. The course, therefore, will first focus on the individual parts of the software, followed by how to combine the parts to allow you to get to the fun part: making music!
Who this course is for:
- You have always wanted to make music, but don't know an instrument.
- You have always wanted to make music on a computer, but don't know how to transition from traditional recording methods.
- You're intrigued by GarageBand and want to see if it can help you improve your workflow.
Course content
- Preview01:55
- Preview02:14
- 09:06GarageBand 'Preferences'
- 05:56GarageBand 'Main Window' & 'Musical Typing'
- 00:59'Quick Help' Feature
- 08:00"What is MIDI?" & 'Piano Roll'
- 00:15How to Buy a MIDI Keyboard
- 03:35Setting Up MIDI Recording
- 00:36Basic MIDI Recording
- Preview04:21
- 02:07Note on 'Extra Content'
- 10 questionsMIDI Quiz
Instructor
![Michael Feinstein](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.0 Instructor Rating
- 36 Reviews
- 336 Students
- 2 Courses
Michael has varied interests that have served him and others well.
He is a passionate musician and has been producing music for over ten years under the moniker of Tuned Logic. He is very experienced with both Apple's GarageBand and Logic Pro music production software. He has two studio albums released and is working on a third. While he loves making music on his own, he also has a passion for teaching and wants to give back to the community.
Michael is also very fond of automobiles and is known in his circles as the resident advisor on all things cars.
Furthermore, since the tender age of three (!), Michael has been helping others use technology more effectively in their daily routines. Whether the matter involves PCs, smartphones, tablets, home entertainment, or anything else, he can get you up to speed and pointed in the right direction.