PE7_Garage Band

I have seen the GarageBand application on Mac’s over the past few years.  I have yet to use it due to not knowing anything about the program.  I figured this was the perfect chance to learn how to work this application.  I have a real passion for music…all kinds, and love what I have heard about GarageBand, so this is my chance to play. 

 I viewed the course from Lynda.com entitles GarageBand ’11 Essential Training.  Todd Howard the instructor, seemed very knowledgeable about the program, and broke the important pieces of the programing down into easy to listen to as well as informative clips.  Throughout the entire course, I found myself pausing the video tutorials to work with my own creation along with Howard, which I found to be helpful as to not miss anything from his instructions. 

Although I didn’t really have the instruments to create my own original soundtrack, I decided to work with what the program library offered by means of instrumental sound.  I played with the tempo’s to make them accurate and worked with the lengths of each instruments track so that I really understood the core ideals that he developed throughout the presentation as he added sounds and effects to his piece.  I also adjusted the equalizer pieces to each of the instrument sounds so that none of the instruments overpowered the other, and looped a few of the sounds so that the piece remained fluent and flowing.  I loved working on this project!