Garageband Music Since 2004!

I just looked at all my Garageband Music files and there are over 1010 pieces of music I have created since February 11 of 2004!!! Garageband is in my opinion the best music creation tool ever created for a computer... regardless of price!

Hope all you GB users are creating great music!

Svend

http://www.svend007.com

http://www.svend.com

ps. I bought the new iPad Garageband. It is awesome!!!!!!! The drum machine is the coolest thing I have ever seen for putting some drum beats together!!!!! iPad Garageband is so worth $5!!! I hope they bring that drum editor to MAC Garageband!

NEW iPad Garageband

I bought the new iPad Garageband. It is awesome!!!!!!! The drum machine is the coolest thing I have ever seen for putting some drum beats together!!!!! iPad Garageband is so worth $5!!! I hope they bring that drum editor to MAC Garageband!

Hope all you GB users are creating great music!

Svend

http://www.svend007.com

http://www.svend.com

Garageband Previews

Greetings Garageband Lovers!

I have hundreds, maybe thousands of songs I have written in Garageband. Opening them up in GB can take quite a while for each song, and sometimes I just want a quick listen, so that method can be a pain in the a-ss...lol. The cool thing to do in this case is to go into GB preferences, and make GB create a PREVIEW of the file! Then you can be in the mac finder and just click once on a file and hit the SPACE BAR and the mac will play the song!! Quick, instant, easy!!!

Hope all you GB users are creating great music!

Svend

http://www.svend007.com

http://www.svend.com

ps. I bought the new iPad Garageband. It is awesome!!!!!!! The drum machine is the coolest thing I have ever seen for putting some drum beats together!!!!! iPad Garageband is so worth $5!!! I hope they bring that drum editor to MAC Garageband!

Using GB 4.0 vs. 5.0

Happy New Years!

Just wanted to know how many people out there have the newest GB installed and GB 4.0

I personally like the older version better, and on my system is much faster!

What are your thoughts!

Svend

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Garageband Hints and Tips - Splitting Tracks

Here is a great trick... you can split tracks while the song is playing! Just hit "apple" "T" while song is playing and garageband will split a track up for you!

Give it a try!! and leave a comment to let me know what you think!

Keep making great music, and think outside the box!

Svend

http://www.svend007.com

Garageband Hints and Tips: Using Garageband tools to learn new chords :)

Garageband Hints and Tips: Using Garageband tools to learn new chords :)

I am self taught in music and song writing... and just know enough theory to be dangerous!

One feature I like is Garagebands ability to show you what chord you are playing on the piano keyboard. I then use this to string some chords together, and actually know what I am playing... or, if I read a good article in say keyboard magazine and they do a profile on a song, and give the chord sequence, I can easily figure it out!

Give it a try!! and leave a comment to let me know what you think!

Keep making great music, and think outside the box!

Svend

http://www.svend007.com

Garageband Hints And Tips: FREE Garageband Loops!!

Who doesn't love free Garageband Loops!!!

Here is a great summary list of loops (note: not all links work, but 90% do!)

http://mac.wareseeker.com/free-garageband-loops/

http://www.smartloops.com/Free/

Give it a try!! and leave a comment to let me know what you think!

Keep making great music, and think outside the box!

Svend

http://www.svend007.com

Garageband Hints and Tips: There is more than Four Four Time!

Greetings Garageband lovers.

Todays Garageband Hints and Tips has to do with the meter of your music and how it relates to Garageband.

I normally write my music in 4/4 time, but every once in a while, I remember there are other time signatures in music besides 4/4! and so I change it to 3/4 time or 6/8 time. 

But here is the cool part! When you change time signature/time meter in Garageband, Garageband automatically shows you a different set of loops in the loop browser that are made for the time signature you are in! This means you will discover some new loops you never had in 4/4 time :) and this can often inspire a new song out of you :)

Give it a try!! and leave a comment to let me know what you think!

Keep making great music, and think outside the box!

Svend

http://www.svend007.com

Garageband Hints and Tips: Composition

Garageband Hints and Tips: Composition

One of the "tricks" I use to create an interesting song in garageband is to have a drum track that I use to play a piano part let's say... for 3-4 bars. I then repeat this motif for 16+ bars. 

I then slide the drums down 3-4 bars, so the song starts with a piano and then the drums come in for a nice dynamic transition :) You get the idea... you can use this method in many ways...

Sometimes I will create a complex mix of 8+ tracks, all sounding very magestic. I will then slide all these far to the right and pull individual tracks back one at a time so the song build with one track... then two... then three... etc...

Give it a try!! and leave a comment to let me know what you think!

Keep making great music, and think outside the box!

Svend

http://www.svend007.com

Garageband Hints and Tips: Selecting multiple tracks to apply quantisization

Selecting multiple tracks to apply quantisization

Sometimes I have multiple tracks in Garageband that need to be quantized to 1/16th beat. You can select multiple tracks in the upper part of the GB window, and then select your quantisization and it will apply it to all tracks.

Give it a try!! and leave a comment to let me know what you think!

Keep making great music, and think outside the box!

Svend

http://www.svend007.com