Garageband for iPad + iPhone - A Beginner's Guide

Learn The Recording Studio In Your Pocket

Created byDavid Miller

Last updated 1/2019

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What you'll learn

create fully realized, studio quality tracks on their iOS device.
understand how Garageband functions.
come up with their own song structures.
understand how to mix tracks in Garageband.
use the Garageband instruments effectively even if they don't know how to play any live instruments.

Course content

7 sections • 27 lectures • 2h 4m total length

Introduction1:18
Explore the GarageBand mobile interface and learn to create retro techno and pop hip hop tracks on iPad or iPhone, even with no musical experience.

The Four Main Screens3:15
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.
Timing: The Metronome and Quantization2:10
This lesson focuses on the metronome, a repetitive noise that helps you keep time.
Timing With Quantization5:52
In this lesson we explore Quantization, a function that automatically corrects your playing to fit a pre-determined sequence.
Arpeggio, Sustain + Octave Controls5:35
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 Tracks3:02
Editing tracks is a simple matter of cutting and reorganizing elements. We cover how to do this here.
Adding New Song Sections3:46
This lesson focuses on creating our song structure and extending/ repeating parts through a technique known as looping.

Techno: Bass Arpeggio7:44
Create a techno track in GarageBand for iPad and iPhone by selecting a deep synth bass, applying arpeggio patterns, and setting tempo to 125 bpm, with stereo panning.
Techno: Beat Sequencer7:16
Techno: Session Drummer7:50
Learn to use GarageBand techno session drummer on iPad and iPhone, choosing percussion presets, adjusting complexity and sections, and layering melodies with a lead keyboard and melodic pads.
Techno: Leads + Pads7:57
Techno: Organizing Sections and Parts3:44
Techno: Merging and Filtering Sounds2:27
Dirty up GarageBand sounds by using the audio recorder or amplifier with producer effects like vintage tube and amped phaser. Merge rhythm elements into one track for a grittier texture.
Techno: Apple Loops2:38
Saving and Titling Songs1:43

Trip Hop/ Hip Hop: Build A Track From External Samples Pt. 14:37
Build a hip hop and trip hop track from external samples in GarageBand, using imported audio loops, deejay tools, and royalty-free splice sounds at 100 bpm, then merge beats.
Trip Hop/ Hip Hop: Build A Track From External Samples Pt. 15:39
Explore building a hip hop track in GarageBand using external royalty-free samples, applying effects such as crusher, delay, reverse, and slow-down playback to craft a flute hook.
Importing Your Own Sounds Into Garageband2:06
In this lesson I show you how to bring your own custom loops into the Garageband iOS app via iTunes.
Trip Hop/ Hip Hop: DJ FX6:06
Build a trip hop/ hip hop track in GarageBand by structuring sections a through d, then apply dj fx: filter, reverse, scratching, bit crusher, and repeater to create lively transitions.

Key and Chord Progressions3:22
Create ambient, classical, or new age songs by emphasizing chord progressions in a chosen key, using a smart piano and adjustable chords in GarageBand for iPad and iPhone.
Pads + Strings8:44
Layer piano with an alchemy synth and moon dome reverb, then explore cinematic strings and a two-string Chinese instrument with tremolo; learn tapping and scaled notes, looping, and world sounds.

Electric Guitar Part 17:15
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.
Electric Guitar Part 2: Textures and Third Party FX5:03
In this lesson, we cover more unusual guitar sounds from sound packs and third party apps, as well as copying and layering guitar sounds.
Working With The Sampler7:09
Here I show you how I use the Sampler keyboard to take a human voice and make it a unique instrument in our track.
Inter-App Audio4:01
IOS devices have hundreds of additional music apps available, and in this lesson, we show how to record those apps in our Garageband interface.

Requirements

Students will need an iPhone or iPad
Headphones
Garageband app

Description

Garageband iOS is Apple's incredibly powerful mobile recording studio that allows anyone to play and compose professional sounding music. It's allowed individuals to create natural sounding orchestras with little more than their phone and a pair of headphones.

In this class, we explore how Garageband works and how someone can compose their own music without any previous experience playing instruments or writing songs. We'll look at some different genres of music, and build demos of each track, including:

techno
trip hop/ hip hop
ambient/ classical/ new age

Each genre of music has their own requirements, so within each demonstration we'll work our way through:

learning the types of instruments
arpeggios and chords
using quantization to straighten out our playing
working with samples from other sources and creating our own sound samples
mixing the music both within Garageband and using alternate digital workstations
creating filters and guitar amplifiers as a way to give texture to our music
linking other music apps with Garageband

and much much more!

Who this course is for:

Musicians who want to make music on their mobile devices
Anyone interested in recording and mixing sounds on their mobile device
Anyone who wants to learn music production and songwriting but doesn't know where to begin

Garageband for iPad + iPhone - A Beginner's Guide

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Course content

Introduction1 lecture • 1min

The Garageband iOS Workspace6 lectures • 24min

Retro Techno Track8 lectures • 41min

Trip Hop / Hip Hop Track4 lectures • 18min

Ambient/ Classical/ New Age Track2 lectures • 12min

Additional Sounds4 lectures • 23min

Final Thoughts2 lectures • 4min

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