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GarageBand: A Comprehensive Guide to Making Music
Rating: 3.9 out of 5(34 ratings)
318 students
Created byMichael Feinstein
Last updated 1/2015
English

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.

Course content

5 sections • 29 lectures • 2h 53m total length

  • Downloading or Updating GarageBand1:55

    This lecture explains how to download and setup GarageBand so you can begin making music. Note that most modern Macs already have GarageBand, but you'll want to download the latest version (10, which is free) to best take advantage of this course. Link in supplementary material.

  • First Time Run & GarageBand 'Main Menu'2:14

    This lecture shows you around the main menu of GarageBand and how to start a new project.

  • GarageBand 'Preferences'9:06

    This lecture gives a full tour of GarageBands 'Preferences' Menu and shows you how to make sure you are all set to make music.

  • GarageBand 'Main Window' & 'Musical Typing'5:56

    This lecture takes you on a tour of the main components of GarageBand, as well as how to utilize 'Musical Typing', which lets you play musical notes using your computer keyboard. **NOTE: A MIDI piano keyboard will make your life much easier if you can play piano. There will be a lecture for choosing one for use with GarageBand, but it is totally optional.

  • 'Quick Help' Feature0:59

    This lecture demonstrates how to call on the 'Quick Help' feature if you become lost.

  • "What is MIDI?" & 'Piano Roll'8:00

    This lecture teaches a fundamental part of making music in GarageBand, which is MIDI, or Musical Instrument Digital Interface. MIDI is nothing more than data that tells GarageBand what sounds to play, kind of like triggers.

  • How to Buy a MIDI Keyboard0:15
  • Setting Up MIDI Recording3:35

    This lecture shows you how to add MIDI tracks and manipulate the track data.

  • Basic MIDI Recording0:36

    This is a quick lecture that show you how to record MIDI.

  • Basic MIDI Editing4:21

    This lecture shows you how to edit MIDI data to get it to trigger the sounds you want.

  • Note on 'Extra Content'2:07

    This lecture talks about the extra content available on the App Store for $4.99, which will give you access to all of GarageBand's software instruments & loops. Link in supplementary material.

  • MIDI Quiz

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.

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