GARAGEBAND TIPS: Put Your Garageband Music on CB Baby

CD Baby: sales and distribution for your music. CD Baby has helped
over 150,000 artists sell over $40 million in physical CDs, digital
downloads, and live sales since 1998.

For a simple $35 setup, CD Baby can get your music selling worldwide
on cdbaby.com, Apple iTunes, Yahoo Music, Best Buy, Rhapsody,
Napster, MSN Music and more.

CD Baby keeps only a 9% cut, paying 91% of all income directly to the
artist. (For physical CDs, we keep $4 per CD sold.)

Your CD will be available to over 2400 traditional retail CD stores
in the USA. You get paid full retail price for these sales.

CD Baby pays everyone every Monday night. Over $250,000 every week,
paid directly to our musician clients.

I am planning to get my CD up on CB Baby in December! - svend /

www.svend007.com

New Instrumental Song By Svend using Apples Garageband 3.0

I just finished a new instrumental called "Evictions and Edictions"
using Apple's great new version of Garageband 3.0 (yes, I meant to
spell Addictions wrong :) - hope you like the new song. I used many
of the new cool features in Garageband 3.0 like visual EQ, and 4
effects at a time and the new Apple compressor effect. -

www.svend007.com

GARAGEBAND TIPS: Musicians Need Search Engine Optimization for their Web Sites!

It occurred to me that musicians checking out this blog might be
interested in learning more about SEO (search engine optimization)
and how it can help them market their music better! Besides my love
of composing music and using garageband, my "day job" is web design,
logo design, and SEO including a very unique service called SEO WEB
HOSTING. SEO is all about results! And those results are to get your
web site to the TOP of the search engines! As proof of how I do this,
think abot how you found this site :) - you went to google let's say,
and put in "garageband tips" and my site comes up on the first page
of google! I can do this for YOUR web site for the terms you want to
be found for! go to www.svend.com to find out more! - svend -

www.svend007.com

GARAGEBAND TIPS: The Beauty of Apple's Garagebands Effects

One of my favorite techniques in Garageband is to adjust the effects like eq when the song is playing. Use this to experiment with how you might automate the effects over time as the song is playing, giving you real time feedback! www.svend007.com

GARAGEBAND TIPS: Using Multi Takes in Apple's Garageaband

A great new feature in Apple's Garageband is the multi take feature.
When you record a track, and the song is set to repeat after so many
measures, garageband will record multiple takes as you play. What I
like to do is duplicate the track, copy the file to the new track,
and then I can listen to take 1 in track 1 and listen to take two in
the copied track. Give it a try! Svend - www.svend007.com

GARAGEBAND TIPS: The Apple Loop Library and the Garageband Instrument Track you have selected

An interesting feature/quirk of Garagebands Apple Loop library is that when you are browsing through Garagebands Apple Loops the loops take on the sound characteristics of the instrument track you have selected above. For example, if your currently selected track above is piano, and you have that piano track set with a really long lush reverb, then the loops you listen too will be played through the same reverb effects, EQ, chorus, etc... that you have set. Use this to your advantage to make sure you are listening to the loops with the sound treatment you would use with that loop. Using the example above, the lush reverbed piano track, if I were to be listening to apple drum loops, this lush reverb would not be appropriate, and would sound like mud... but, if I were listening to apple string loops, this lush reverb sound treatment would be great! Experiment :)
- svend - www.svenddesign.com & www.svend007.com

GARAGEBAND TIPS: Setting Up A Garageband Master Page

To speed up the song writing process, I set up a "template" file that
has all my favorite instruments pre assigned along with my preferred
key, and tempo, along with a simple drum beat to get me going. When
ever the song writing urge hits me, I can quickly pull this pre
defined file up, write my music, and then "save as" to save the song
(make sure to do this so you don't mess up your "master template" ).
- svend - www.svend007.com

GARAGEBAND TIPS: Using Visual EQ in the new Garageband

Make sure to turn on the analyzer function to pin point what
frequencies you want to adjust while the song is playing! It's
brilliant and so intuitive!

Layering a section in Garargeband

One of my favorite techniques in Garageband is to record a short (or
long) musical passage, let's say using the piano. You start your song
out with this piano piece. Make a duplicate of this musical passage,
and put in on another track, so by say measure 4 you are now hearing
the two passages. Make the duplicate track, say strings... so you
start out with piano, then you have piano and strings... then add a
third copy, etc... for a really lush sound! - svend, svend007.com

Using The New Garageband Visual EQ and Automation

There are two cool new features in Garageband that I love. Effects
Automation and Visual realtime EQ. What I like to do is take a
partially completed song, and pull up the visual EQ for an
instrument. While the song is playing, I adjust the visual EQ so that
I can get a feel for what adjustments sound "cool"... I then use the
new effects automation to adjust the same visual EQ parameters so
that what I was doing by hand, gets added to the song as a permanent
feature. Start experimenting with this cool feature! - svend
(www.svend007.com)