Garage Band
Garage Band is a incredible tool you can use in your music studies. As an environment to create your own play-alongs is it works great. As an introduction to recording techniques GB is so easy to learn.
This course will get off on the right foot with valuable information and training in the many uses of Garage Band. The focus will be on making music, not technology.
Easy to follow and undrstand lesson will clarify the process of using Garage Band for many benefits.
Upon the successful completion of this course:
- record yourself
- produce a good sounding recording
- understand and use the techincal features of GB
- Create an mp3
- mix, import, export, and use effects
Required texts: none
Prerequisite: none
Course Instructor: Brent Rusinow
12 weeks - $1145 Register Now (not available this term)
Topical Outline
Lesson 1: Getting Started
- technical reuqirements
connections
transport buttons
record a new track
export project as mp3
Lesson 2: Working with MIDI
- recording
benefits of midi
input midi keyboard
Lesson 3: Rhythm Track
Lesson 4: Quantizing
- what is quantizing?
- different types of quantizing
- quantizing techniques
Lesson 5: Midterm Project
Lesson 6: Creating Sounds
Lesson 7: Mixing
- Value of mixing
- volume
- panning
- eq
- effects
- automation
Lesson 8: Analysis
- instructor examples
- student examples
Lesson 9: Editing
- edit window
- cut & past
- punching in
- keyboard shorcuts
Lesson 10: Editing
- moving pitches
- length and velocity
Lesson 11: Final Project
Lesson 12: Uses
- assignments
- evaluation
- play-alongs
- demo
- practicing
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