PE4_Garage Band

One program I do not have too much experience with is Garage Band. Garage Band is included with the iLife software suite and can come in handy for many projects, again both personal and professional. Really the only experience I have with it so far is creating Podcasts for the EMDT program in the first couple months of the program. It looks like as well get further along in the program it will be used more in depth, so for my practical exercise I chose this program.

The first thing I looked at was the different templates that are available when you first create a new session. There are many different templates you can choose from such as single instruments, voice, loops, songwriting, podcasts, and even movies. Going further into the templates you can also create sessions for iPhone ringtones, magic garageband which lets you create songs by focusing on one single instrument out of a band, and you can even learn how to play different instruments by visiting the lesson store.

Going a little bit further into lessons, there are three different categories which you can choose from. Basic guitar, basic piano, and artist let you pick up to 8 different lessons to learn the basics of these instruments. With the artist lessons, you can learn how to play actual songs from various artists and these seem to change over time. An artist lesson for example costs $4.99 to learn one song, while the basic guitar and piano lessons are free of charge. For people with little to no experience with these instruments, this would be a great way to get started. They teach you the basics of the instrument and a little bit of theory to back it up. Although for more advanced players they may not have the same appeal, it seems that the lesson store has more then enough material for everyone.

This is a screenshot of the lesson store where you can choose from guitar, piano, or artist lessons.