IntroductionWelcome| 00:04 | Hi! I'm Garrick Chow and welcome to another
title in our series on iPad music production.
| | 00:08 | In this course we're looking at Apple GarageBand,
an app that turns your iPad into a fully featured
| | 00:13 | portable digital audio workstation that lets
you play, record, and mix both virtual and
| | 00:18 | real instruments.
| | 00:20 | We'll start by examining
the GarageBand interface.
| | 00:23 | From there I'll show how to play and use all
of GarageBand's built-in instruments like
| | 00:26 | the keyboard where you can select from 80
different keyboard styles and customize them
| | 00:30 | to suit your own recordings.
| | 00:31 | (music playing)
| | 00:32 | Or the drums where you can play a variety of
kits modeled after both acoustic drum kits
| | 00:36 | and classic drum machines.
| | 00:38 | You will also see how to play GarageBand's Smart
Instruments and work with Apple Loops which
| | 00:42 | make it easy for anyone at any level of musical
experience to add professional sounding guitar,
| | 00:47 | keyboard, or even string
arrangements to a song.
| | 00:49 | I will show you to how to connect a real guitar
to your iPad and play through one of GarageBand's
| | 00:53 | multitude of build-in amps and stomp boxes.
| | 00:56 | (music playing)
| | 00:59 | And then we will put everything
together by creating a song from scratch.
| | 01:02 | (music playing)
| | 01:14 | So if you're brand new to GarageBand or even
if you've just played around with a little bit,
| | 01:18 | you will be amazed at how powerful it really
is and how easy it can be it to create great
| | 01:22 | sounding, polished music in very little time.
| | 01:24 | Let's get started.
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| What you need to know before watching this course| 00:00 | Before we jump into GarageBand, there are a
couple of important points I want to get across.
| | 00:04 | First of all, GarageBand doesn't come preinstalled
on your iPad or any other iOS device for that matter.
| | 00:09 | You need to purchase it either through iTunes
on your computer or you can get it directly
| | 00:13 | on your iPad by going to the App
Store app and searching for GarageBand.
| | 00:16 | Currently it costs $4.99.
| | 00:18 | Secondly, don't confuse this version of
GarageBand with GarageBand for the Mac.
| | 00:22 | Even though they share the same name and have
some similarities, they are two completely
| | 00:26 | different programs.
| | 00:27 | Now you can take content that you create on
GarageBand on the iPad and continue working
| | 00:31 | on it on the Mac,
| | 00:32 | and I will show you how to do
that later in this course.
| | 00:35 | But if you're looking for instruction on
GarageBand for the Mac, be sure to look for GarageBand
| | 00:39 | 11 Essential Training on
the online training library.
| | 00:42 | And lastly, even though GarageBand does work
with the iPhone and the iPod touch, I'm going
| | 00:46 | to be focusing entirely on
the iPad in this course.
| | 00:49 | The iPad's larger screen really just makes
it the best iOS device for taking advantage
| | 00:53 | of everything GarageBand has to offer.
| | 00:55 | If you are using an iPod touch or an iPhone,
you can still follow along, just be aware
| | 00:59 | that many of the interface elements I'll be
showing you on the iPad, will be moved around
| | 01:02 | on the devices with the smaller screens.
| | 01:04 | So with those points in mind, let's move on.
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| Using the exercise files| 00:00 | If you are a premium subscriber to lynda.com,
you have access to the exercise files for
| | 00:04 | this course, but for the majority of these
movies, you won't need any exercise files.
| | 00:08 | You'll be able to just watch
and play along with your iPad.
| | 00:11 | I'll be providing the project file for the song
we mix at the end of the chapter on recording,
| | 00:15 | editing and mixing though, so if you want to
play around with the song I create in that
| | 00:18 | chapter, download the exercise file from this
course's page at lynda.com, then save it somewhere
| | 00:23 | on your computer such as the Desktop.
| | 00:25 | Next, connect your iPad to
your computer and open iTunes.
| | 00:30 | Select your iPad and then click Apps.
| | 00:32 | Next, scroll down and select GarageBand
under File Sharing, and then click Add.
| | 00:40 | And then navigate to the
song file to select it.
| | 00:45 | Once the file has been copied over, you can
disconnect your iPad from your computer if you like.
| | 00:49 | On your iPad, open
GarageBand and tap My Songs.
| | 00:54 | Tab the plus button and
choose Copy from iTunes.
| | 00:59 | You should see the song file listed here.
| | 01:00 | Tap it to import it.
| | 01:04 | Once the project shows up, tap it to
open it and you will be ready to mix.
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1. Getting StartedGetting to know the GarageBand for iPad interface| 00:00 | All right, let's start by taking a
look at the GarageBand interface.
| | 00:04 | When you first open GarageBand, you are
presented with the Instruments Selector, and you can
| | 00:07 | just swipe left or right to select the
instrument you want to play or record for your song.
| | 00:12 | Now because you will be swiping a lot in this
application, I do recommend having your iPad
| | 00:16 | on some kind of stand or mount just to keep it
stable, especially if you have a slick desktop
| | 00:20 | like we have here.
| | 00:21 | So I just have this sitting on top
of a laptop stand in this case.
| | 00:25 | Now you can select any instrument you want
to start. I'll just select the Keyboard.
| | 00:28 | Once you select an instrument, it
pretty much takes up your entire screen.
| | 00:32 | Essentially, your iPad
becomes that instrument.
| | 00:35 | So right now I have a Grand Piano
instrument that I can just start playing.
| | 00:38 | (music playing)
| | 00:43 | Each instrument has its own set of controls.
| | 00:45 | For example, I have a Grand Piano button here.
| | 00:47 | So I can select a different type of
keyboard, maybe the classic rock organ.
| | 00:51 | You can see it changed its look and
now I have a totally different sound.
| | 00:57 | So each instrument does have its own sounds
and controls and we'll be covering each one
| | 01:01 | of these instruments in their own
movies throughout this course.
| | 01:04 | For now let's continue
looking at the interface.
| | 01:05 | I am going to start with My Songs in the upper
left-hand corner here, and this is the area
| | 01:10 | you go to to open any previously created
songs or projects you are working on, or you
| | 01:14 | can create brand new songs from here as well.
| | 01:16 | Right now I have this Curtain Call - Demo
song which is installed with GarageBand and
| | 01:21 | this is a demo song you can
open up and play along with.
| | 01:23 | When I select it it opens up in Track View,
and this is just a view where we see each
| | 01:27 | individual track of this particular project.
| | 01:30 | I have a movie coming up dedicated to walking
you through the Track View, so we'll get to
| | 01:33 | that a little bit later.
| | 01:34 | For now I am going to go back to My Songs
and I'll create a new song by tapping the
| | 01:39 | plus button and then New Song.
| | 01:42 | It takes me right back to the Instruments
Selector and again I can just swipe through
| | 01:45 | here to select an instrument.
| | 01:47 | Maybe this time I'll select the drums and
now I'm looking at a completely different
| | 01:52 | instrument, but again this is the one I
can play just by tapping on the screen.
| | 01:55 | (music playing)
| | 01:59 | So when you create a new song, you have to
select an instrument right off the bat, but
| | 02:02 | you are not locked into that instrument.
| | 02:04 | Maybe instead of starting with the
drums, I want to start with a bass.
| | 02:07 | So I'll tap Instruments, swipe
through here and I'll find the Smart Bass.
| | 02:14 | And just like that I'm looking at a
totally different instrument again.
| | 02:18 | Next, we have this pair of buttons here.
| | 02:20 | Now currently, we are working in
what's called Instrument View.
| | 02:22 | This is the view you will work in when you
need to play an instrument on the screen.
| | 02:26 | By tapping this button, it doesn't matter
which button you tap, either one we'll switch
| | 02:30 | back and forth between the Instrument View
and what we are looking at now which is the Track View.
| | 02:35 | So now I am looking at Track View, I see one
track in here so far and that's currently
| | 02:38 | my Smart Bass because that's
the instrument I selected.
| | 02:41 | So tapping this button anywhere just toggles
it back and forth between the instrument and
| | 02:44 | the Track View.
| | 02:46 | Now this button on the left will change its
appearance a little bit based on the instrument
| | 02:49 | you have selected.
| | 02:49 | I am currently working with the Smart Bass,
so you see a little Smart Bass icon in there.
| | 02:53 | Now a shortcut to get back to the Instrument
View when you're in Track View is to double-tap
| | 02:57 | the Instrument icon here
on the left-hand side.
| | 02:59 | That becomes a little bit more important when
you are working with multiple tracks and you
| | 03:03 | want to jump back to a specific instrument.
| | 03:05 | So if I had eight different tracks in here
and I wanted to go back to the Smart Bass,
| | 03:08 | I could just double-tap it,
and it takes me right back in.
| | 03:11 | Next we have our playback controls.
| | 03:13 | We have the Rewind, Play, and Record buttons.
Pretty self-explanatory, but the Rewind button
| | 03:18 | takes you back to the very beginning of the
Timeline, and by Timeline I mean this Timeline
| | 03:22 | you see across the top of the screen here.
| | 03:24 | And this is the Playhead
that I just dragged out.
| | 03:27 | That indicates where in the song you are;
wherever the Playhead is, when you tap Play,
| | 03:31 | that's where the song will start playing from.
| | 03:33 | So if I tap Play now, you could see the Playhead
just moves along, we can hear the Metronome playing.
| | 03:37 | You can actually drag that Playhead along
anywhere you want and it will keep playing
| | 03:41 | or even just tap anywhere on the Timeline
to jump to specific parts of your song.
| | 03:46 | I'll tap Stop, turns back into the Rewind
button, I'll tap that, takes the Playhead
| | 03:51 | all the way back.
| | 03:52 | Incidentally, when it's not playing, you can
still tap on the Timeline to jump to specific
| | 03:56 | locations or drag the Playhead. You can even
double-tap on the Timeline to start playing
| | 04:01 | right from where you tapped.
| | 04:04 | And again, I'll rewind that.
| | 04:05 | We'll talk more about recording when we
get to the chapter on recording and mixing.
| | 04:09 | Next we have the Master Volume slider and
this just lets you adjust the volume of your playback.
| | 04:14 | You can see as I move my finger along,
you see the overlay of volume popup there.
| | 04:19 | When you are playing your instrument or
you're listening back to something you recorded,
| | 04:22 | you'll see these lights light up in the
Master Volume slider, and the lights will go from
| | 04:27 | green to yellow to red.
| | 04:29 | You want to keep the lights out of the red
because you will be clipping or distorting
| | 04:31 | your track in that case, and that's
definitely something you don't want.
| | 04:34 | Again, we'll be talking more about
setting the levels in upcoming movies as well.
| | 04:37 | But again you just move your finger
along the slider to set the volume.
| | 04:40 | You can also use the Volume buttons on the iPad
itself to adjust the volume incrementally like this.
| | 04:46 | Next, we have the Jam Session button.
| | 04:50 | This is a really cool feature that lets you
connect two or more iPads together over Bluetooth,
| | 04:54 | and it's really useful if you want to have
multiple musicians all recording or playing
| | 04:57 | at the same time. You can actually have
everybody playing at the same time and then record all
| | 05:01 | those tracks to one iPad.
| | 05:02 | Again, that's another feature we'll look at
a little bit later, but it is a really cool feature.
| | 05:07 | Next, we have our mixer controls.
| | 05:10 | These are the controls for the particular
track you're working on or have selected.
| | 05:13 | Right now it says Liverpool at the top because
that's the instrument that I'm playing; it's
| | 05:16 | the Liverpool style bass.
| | 05:17 | You can see I can adjust things like the Track
Volume, the panning, I can solo it, and so on.
| | 05:25 | The Settings controls which looks like a
wrench is for setting the overall settings of the song.
| | 05:30 | So we set things like Tempo, the
Key or the Time Signature here.
| | 05:35 | And next to that, we have this Question Mark
or Info button, and when we tap that,
| | 05:39 | that opens up these helpful overlays
over the interface you're looking at.
| | 05:42 | So right now I am looking at my Smart Bass
so I see overlays about the Smart Bass.
| | 05:46 | It tells me here that I can choose a sound
by tapping this button here, it tells me to
| | 05:49 | tap the strings in any of these strips to
play bass notes for that particular chord.
| | 05:53 | Now you'll see some of these
overlays have little arrows next to them.
| | 05:56 | Anytime you see those arrows you can tap
them and that will open up the GarageBand Help
| | 06:00 | file, so you can see now it can read more
about in this case using the Control Bar.
| | 06:05 | I can also tap GarageBand Help, go to the
table of contents and read up on any other
| | 06:09 | section of the GarageBand Help file.
| | 06:12 | I'll tap Done and I'll just
close the overlays for now.
| | 06:17 | So all of these interface elements will appear
whether you're in the Instrument View or the Track View.
| | 06:21 | Now there are a couple other buttons that
will show up under certain circumstances.
| | 06:24 | Now for example, I am going to record a short
piece here, but again we'll get more into
| | 06:28 | recording a little bit later
but let me just tap Record.
| | 06:31 | (music playing)
| | 06:46 | So I just recorded a couple
bars of a bassline here.
| | 06:49 | Now let's take a look at Track View.
| | 06:51 | So you can see now I have a region here now
that I have recorded, but you might have also
| | 06:55 | noticed that an Undo button has appeared here.
| | 06:58 | This Undo button works just like it does in
pretty much every other application. It takes
| | 07:01 | away the last step you performed.
| | 07:03 | So if I were to tap Undo right now,
it gets rid of what I just recorded.
| | 07:07 | Now fortunately I can tap Undo again and
notice that Redo Recording now appears.
| | 07:12 | We do have a Redo function, so in case you
do make a mistake like that, you can just
| | 07:15 | tap Redo, in this case Recording,
to bring that region back.
| | 07:19 | Now another button that has appeared in the
interface and only shows up when you're in
| | 07:21 | the Track View is the Apple Loops button.
| | 07:24 | This gives you access to a huge library of
prerecorded instruments that you can use to
| | 07:28 | create a song from scratch or to just sort
of fill out a song you're already working on.
| | 07:32 | And the way this works is you can just browse
through here, currently I am looking at Drums,
| | 07:37 | but I could select an instrument here, maybe
switch to Guitars, I can just browse through
| | 07:41 | and tap on anything that sounds interesting.
| | 07:43 | (music playing)
| | 07:51 | Maybe in this case I do want to go back to
Drums and find a beat to go along with my song.
| | 07:58 | (music playing)
| | 08:06 | Now if you find something you like, all you
have to do is just drag it into your project.
| | 08:11 | You can see it appears on its own track and
now if I play, you will be able to hear it.
| | 08:15 | (music playing)
| | 08:25 | Now we'll get into more with working with
loops a little bit later, but that's basically
| | 08:28 | the gist of it, and it can really help you fill
out a song that you're working with especially
| | 08:32 | if you can't play a particular instrument or
can't find somebody to play an instrument
| | 08:35 | that you want to have in your song.
| | 08:37 | But for now, that's an overview
of the GarageBand interface.
| | 08:39 | And really I encourage you to just sort of
play around with the interface and see what
| | 08:43 | you can up with.
| | 08:43 | We are going to be taking a lot closer look
at all of these different details, but just
| | 08:47 | take some time now, open up a project, throw
in some instruments, play around with their
| | 08:51 | settings and effects and see
what you can come up with.
| | 08:53 | There is really no way you can break the interface
or do anything that you can just undo by getting
| | 08:58 | rid of your song and opening up a new project.
| | 09:00 | So take some time, play around with
GarageBand and I'll see you in the next movie.
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| Working in Tracks view| 00:00 | We already had a glimpse of the Track View in
the previous movie, but since we are going
| | 00:04 | to be spending so much time in it, I thought
it was important here to take a look at some
| | 00:07 | of its features.
| | 00:08 | So we saw that any time you create a
new song, you start off with one track.
| | 00:11 | In this case, I created a Smart Bass track
and it's sitting here in the Track View.
| | 00:15 | You can create additional
tracks by tapping the plus button.
| | 00:18 | It takes you back to the instrument selector
where you can browse through your instruments.
| | 00:21 | Maybe, I will select the Smart Strings and
when I switch back to the Track View now,
| | 00:29 | you see I have two tracks.
| | 00:30 | So I've got Smart Bass and Smart Strings now.
| | 00:33 | Depending on how you like to work, you might
want to go through and just keep tapping the
| | 00:36 | plus button and adding all your instruments
if you have your song plotted out in your
| | 00:39 | head, or you can just build your song track
by a track and just create more tracks as
| | 00:42 | you need them.
| | 00:43 | It's entirely up to you.
| | 00:45 | Now you can record in either track view or
in instrument view, but if you're working
| | 00:48 | with an instrument that has to be played on-
screen, then obviously, you have to switch over to
| | 00:52 | the instrument view.
| | 00:53 | In fact, if I wanted to record some Smart
Strings and I hit the Record button here,
| | 00:57 | it's going to switch me back to the
instrument view, so I can start playing.
| | 01:02 | (music playing)
| | 01:13 | So I just recorded a
little bit of Smart Strings.
| | 01:15 | Now if I switch back to the track view,
you can see the region I just recorded.
| | 01:20 | So any time you record, you'll see these audio
regions appear on the track you recorded and
| | 01:23 | you will see three
different colors of regions.
| | 01:25 | For virtual or MIDI instruments like I
just recorded, the regions will be green.
| | 01:29 | If you're recording real audio, for instance
if you plug a guitar into your iPad or you're
| | 01:33 | recording sounds out of the air with a
microphone, the region will be purple.
| | 01:36 | And if you're using Apple
Loops, they will be blue.
| | 01:39 | But with each region, you can select it and
then do a new number of things with that region.
| | 01:43 | Once it's selected, you will see that I can
move it around on that track, I can even move
| | 01:47 | it to other tracks, except I can't do it in
this case since I have to drag it to another
| | 01:51 | String Track.
| | 01:52 | But if I had another string section
on here, I could drag it to that.
| | 01:55 | I can grab the handles on
either end to trim the region.
| | 02:00 | Once a region is selected, I can tap it once
to bring up a menu and I can choose to Cut,
| | 02:04 | Copy, Delete, or any other number of things
and again, we will take a closer look at that
| | 02:07 | when we get into mixing and editing.
| | 02:09 | For that matter, you can also tap the selected
track to bring up a menu, and here I can choose
| | 02:14 | to delete that track or duplicate
it or merge it with another track.
| | 02:18 | Now just be careful that you don't double-
tap a track to bring up that menu, because if
| | 02:21 | I say double-tap the Smart Bass, that's
always going to bring up the instrument and take
| | 02:26 | you back into instrument view.
| | 02:27 | So the proper way to do it is to tap to select
the track once, just pause for a moment, then
| | 02:32 | tap it again and that will
bring the menu up for you.
| | 02:38 | Let's move this region back to the beginning.
| | 02:40 | I also mentioned earlier that you can bring
up the controls for each individual track
| | 02:44 | by tapping the Mixer button, and you can see
these are the controls in this case for the
| | 02:48 | Cinematic track which is the version of the
Smart Strings I am playing, and here I have
| | 02:52 | access to the Mute and Solo buttons.
| | 02:54 | I can choose to control the Track Volume,
the Track Panning, Echo, and Reverb, and so on.
| | 02:59 | And if I select the Smart Bass,
you can see now it says Liverpool.
| | 03:02 | So now these are the
controls for the Smart Bass track.
| | 03:05 | But it can get a little bit tedious to have
this window open, plus it covers up a lot
| | 03:08 | of your track area.
| | 03:10 | So instead of using that all the time, you
can also just slide your finger horizontally
| | 03:13 | across the track area to
open up the track controls.
| | 03:17 | Tapping here, you can see this gives you
access to the most commonly used buttons such as
| | 03:20 | the Mute button, Solo, and the
individual volume for that particular track.
| | 03:25 | Now the track controls do tend to take up
a good amount of space on your screen, so
| | 03:28 | if you're not using them at the time, just
drag your finger back across and collapse
| | 03:32 | it, so you have more space to work
over here on the right-hand side.
| | 03:35 | Now speaking of this area on the right, where
you see a region, sometimes you want to get
| | 03:38 | a lot closer to the region,
especially if you want to edit it.
| | 03:40 | In that case, you can just pinch out with
two fingers and just zoom right in on that region.
| | 03:45 | This is especially useful if you're trying
to grab a specific note and get rid of it
| | 03:48 | or move it when you're editing.
| | 03:50 | Then you can just pinch back in
to go back to the original size.
| | 03:54 | So that's an overview of the track controls.
| | 03:55 | It's a good idea to familiarize yourself with
these features that we just looked at before
| | 03:59 | we move onto the next movie.
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| Setting up your song| 00:00 | Whenever you're working in
GarageBand, you're working in a song.
| | 00:04 | A song is simply the project
that you're currently in.
| | 00:06 | Right now, the song I am in is the project
that I created in a previous movie, but I
| | 00:10 | am going to go to My Songs and here I see the
song that I'm just working on is currently
| | 00:15 | titled My Song, and I still see the Curtain Call
Demo song that was created when I installed GarageBand.
| | 00:21 | But if I want to create a new song, I
simply tap the plus button and tap New Song.
| | 00:27 | Again I am given the instrument
picker here, I can select a keyboard.
| | 00:31 | Now an important thing to remember here is
that your song is not actually saved until
| | 00:34 | you do something, basically you have to
record something in your song before it's saved.
| | 00:38 | If I go back to My Songs, notice I still only
have those original two songs here, My Song
| | 00:43 | and Curtain Call.
| | 00:45 | The one I just created is nowhere to be seen
because I actually haven't done anything in it yet.
| | 00:49 | So now I have to tap the plus button again,
choose New Song, select the Keyboard and this
| | 00:55 | time I'll just record a couple of bars.
| | 00:58 | (music playing)
| | 01:10 | So now that I have recorded some content,
if I go back to My Songs you can see now I
| | 01:16 | have a third project in here currently titled
My Song 2, which doesn't really tell me what
| | 01:20 | the song is, so if you want to rename your
song simply tap the name, you can delete that
| | 01:25 | out of there, I'll just call
this Keyboard Tune and tap Done.
| | 01:32 | And now I can go back into the song.
| | 01:35 | So any time you want to make sure you save
what you just recorded, it might be a good
| | 01:38 | idea to tap My Songs that will automatically
save your song, then you can tap the project
| | 01:42 | to open it up again and continue recording.
| | 01:45 | Now it's entirely possible you might just
be using GarageBand for live performances.
| | 01:48 | Maybe you have your iPad hooked up to a PA and
you just want to play the keyboard through
| | 01:52 | it or one of the other instruments.
| | 01:53 | But even if that's the case I would still suggest
creating a project and maybe calling it live
| | 01:58 | and just selecting that project
when you want to perform live.
| | 02:01 | That way you run into less chance of
accidentally recording over a project that you wanted to
| | 02:04 | save, maybe one of your other
songs that you've been recording.
| | 02:07 | But if you're going to be recording a song,
it is important to know how to properly set
| | 02:10 | up that song, and you'll find most of settings
you want to be concerned with under the Settings button.
| | 02:15 | The first item here is Metronome and that's
the clicking sound you hear as you're playing.
| | 02:18 | It helps you keep all your tracks in time
with each other, and you probably heard that
| | 02:22 | when I was recording.
| | 02:23 | (music playing)
| | 02:24 | Just drag this track volume down.
| | 02:30 | So currently we're listening to the
Woodblock sound of the Metronome.
| | 02:34 | We can actually select from three other
sounds, there is Click, Hihat and Rimshot.
| | 02:49 | For the most part, you'll want to pick the sound
that will come through the clearest based
| | 02:52 | on whatever else you're playing in the song,
because you can't actually adjust the volume
| | 02:56 | of the Metronome. What you
hear is basically what you get.
| | 02:59 | In my opinion the Rimshot is probably
the loudest followed by the Woodblock.
| | 03:02 | I've trouble hearing the click in the
Hihat myself, so I usually don't select this.
| | 03:06 | I'll even add the default Woodblock.
| | 03:07 | But be sure to go through and try all different
sounds on your own to see what comes through
| | 03:11 | the best with your recordings.
| | 03:13 | Next we have the Count-In feature and this
gives you four counts before it starts recording.
| | 03:17 | So anytime I press Record with Count-In on
GarageBand will give me four beats, 1, 2,
| | 03:22 | 3, 4 and then it will start recording.
| | 03:25 | This is especially useful if you're working
by yourself and don't have somebody there
| | 03:28 | to press the buttons for you.
| | 03:29 | What you can do is just move the playhead
where you want to start recording and with
| | 03:34 | Count-In on when I tap the Record button,
you'll see the playhead jump back a measure
| | 03:38 | and then you'll see it start
recording at measure six in this case.
| | 03:42 | (music playing)
| | 03:44 | And there it starts recording.
| | 03:47 | Without Count-In turned on, GarageBand will
start recording immediately as soon as you
| | 03:50 | tap the Record button, which might not give
you enough time to get your hands off the
| | 03:53 | iPad and on to your instrument.
| | 03:55 | So I generally recommend leaving that on.
| | 03:58 | The next setting is the Tempo.
| | 04:00 | Now if you already have your song flushed
out you may know the exact tempo you want,
| | 04:03 | in which case you can either just tap the
arrows to get to the tempo you want, or just
| | 04:08 | move your finger up and down
to set the tempo more quickly.
| | 04:13 | Now if you don't know what tempo you want,
maybe you're just in the demo phase and you're
| | 04:16 | still trying to flush out what your song is
all about, you can also use the Tap to is
| | 04:19 | set Tempo button, and simply by tapping here
GarageBand will automatically calculate the tempo.
| | 04:25 | Maybe you're recording a friend playing guitar
and while they're strumming you can tap out the beat.
| | 04:30 | If you don't have somebody else there may be
you can just hum your tune and while you're
| | 04:33 | humming just figure out the beat that way.
| | 04:36 | After a couple of taps
GarageBand should have what you need.
| | 04:41 | Next we can set the Key of our song.
| | 04:44 | Now this is especially important if you're going to
be working with Apple Loops or smart instruments.
| | 04:47 | Both Loops and smart instruments will
conform to the key that you select.
| | 04:51 | So it's a good idea to have the
key set before you start recording.
| | 04:55 | So if I know this is going to be for instance an
A minor, I might choose minor and then A.
| | 05:01 | Now if I'd already recorded some music with
the smart instruments or Apple Loops, because
| | 05:05 | I have Follow Song Key selected here and it's
turned on, the instruments I record will automatically
| | 05:10 | conform to the new key.
| | 05:12 | But if I were to turn that off, the instruments
that I've recorded would stay in their original key.
| | 05:17 | Generally though, you probably want to keep
that on, although there might be some cases
| | 05:20 | where maybe you record in C major and then
you decided to change the song to an A minor,
| | 05:25 | but you want to hear what the part in
C major sounds like over that key.
| | 05:28 | So you can play around with
keeping Follow Song Key on or off.
| | 05:33 | Next we can set our Time Signature.
| | 05:36 | You can select from 4/4, 3/4 or 6/8 and this
is another setting that's important to set
| | 05:40 | before you start recording your song.
| | 05:42 | Because if you put down some music and then
change the time signature, none of that music
| | 05:46 | will conform to the new settings, so make
sure you set that before you start recording.
| | 05:51 | Next we have a Fade Out option.
| | 05:53 | This simply adds a 10 second fade out to your
song, no matter how long your song happens to be.
| | 05:58 | This is a good idea to turn on if maybe you
just can't come up with an ending for your song.
| | 06:01 | But even if your song is only 30 seconds long,
the last 10 seconds will be a fade out,
| | 06:05 | and that fade out will move
based on the length of your song.
| | 06:08 | So if I then expand that song to two and a
half minutes, the last 10 seconds will still
| | 06:12 | be that fade out.
| | 06:15 | This final setting currently labeled AirPlay
Bluetooth, doesn't really have to do with
| | 06:18 | the settings of your song, but it's here
to give you some options for playback.
| | 06:22 | By default, you can monitor what you've been
playing through your iPad either through its
| | 06:25 | internal speaker or
through the headphone jack.
| | 06:28 | But maybe you have a better quality speaker
hooked up to your home stereo system or maybe
| | 06:32 | you have Bluetooth speakers, by turning this
option on you can connect your iPad wirelessly
| | 06:36 | to these devices and listen through what
are arguably better quality speakers.
| | 06:39 | Now notice when I turn AirPlay on, I get this
message telling me that Audio input is disabled,
| | 06:44 | and you may notice a delay
when playing Touch instruments.
| | 06:47 | What's this basically telling me is that
this feature is only for playback. It can't be
| | 06:51 | used for recording because the wireless
features produce too much latency or delay between
| | 06:55 | the time you play and what you actually hear.
| | 06:58 | But this is still a good way to monitor what
you've played through better quality speakers.
| | 07:02 | Incidentally if you have your iPad hooked
up to an HDMI cable that might be plugged
| | 07:06 | into say an HD TV, you'll see this
labeled AirPlay Bluetooth HDMI as well.
| | 07:11 | I'll just leave that off for now.
| | 07:13 | So those are the song settings
that's important to be familiar with.
| | 07:15 | Now we will be building a song from scratch
later on, but before we get into that I want
| | 07:19 | to spend some time looking at each of the
specific instruments that you can play in GarageBand.
| | 07:24 |
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2. Playing Touch InstrumentsPlaying keyboards| 00:00 | Over the next couple of chapters, I'll be
showing you how to play the various instruments
| | 00:04 | that are available in GarageBand, and I've
divided them into three categories; there are
| | 00:08 | Touch instruments, Smart
instruments, and Real instruments.
| | 00:12 | Touch instruments are played by tapping the
screen of your iPad, and they do require you
| | 00:16 | to have a little bit of musical knowledge,
and a sense of rhythm, at least in the case
| | 00:19 | of playing the drums.
| | 00:21 | Smart instruments conform through the tempo
and the key of your songs, so they take a
| | 00:24 | little bit less skill to play, you still
need to have a little bit of musical knowledge
| | 00:28 | and rhythm to play them as well.
| | 00:30 | And real instruments are things like guitars or
sounds out of the air that you might capture
| | 00:34 | with a microphone, and we can record those
with the guitar amps and the microphone recorder
| | 00:38 | that's built into GarageBand.
| | 00:40 | In this chapter, we're going to focus on the
Touch instruments, namely the Keyboard, the
| | 00:44 | Drums, and the Sampler.
| | 00:47 | Let's start off by taking
a look at the Keyboard.
| | 00:52 | The Keyboard is actually 80 different keyboards,
and you can access them by tapping the name
| | 00:57 | of the Keyboard you're currently on.
| | 00:58 | In this case the default is Grand Piano, and
you can see that this is divided into several
| | 01:02 | different categories.
| | 01:03 | We have Keyboards, Classics,
Bass, Leads, Pads, and FX.
| | 01:12 | Some of these categories actually
have multiple screens within them.
| | 01:14 | If you go into a category like Leads for instance,
you'll see these two dots at the bottom and
| | 01:18 | you can actually swipe horizontally to open
up another eight different keyboards you can play with.
| | 01:23 | So among the keyboards here, you'll find some of
the most popular and signature sounds throughout
| | 01:26 | pop and rock history.
| | 01:27 | And each of these keyboards has a different
look, for instance if I select the synthesizer,
| | 01:32 | you'll see an interface like this.
| | 01:34 | If I go back to Keyboards and
select the Organ, you'll see this.
| | 01:40 | But these different looks aren't just for
show; each of these keyboards has its own
| | 01:43 | set of controls and sounds.
| | 01:45 | Let's start by taking a look at some of the
settings that are common to almost all of the keyboards.
| | 01:48 | I am going to go back to the Grand Piano.
| | 01:51 | Now we've already seen
the Grand Piano in action.
| | 01:53 | Again you can just start
playing keys to play some music.
| | 01:56 | But let's take a look at some of the
controls that appear above the keyboard.
| | 02:00 | First, we have our octave controls.
| | 02:02 | Notice that the keys are labeled; we have C2,
C3, and C4 in this case; C3 being middle C.
| | 02:09 | But what if I want to play a little bit lower
than what's currently available on the screen?
| | 02:13 | In that case, we just use the
octave buttons, so I can go down 1.
| | 02:17 | Now it says -1 here, notice that C2 is shifted
to the center and now I have a low C at the
| | 02:22 | very far end here.
| | 02:24 | You can actually keep going all
the way in this case down to -4.
| | 02:28 | Now you are going to get into some sounds
that actually don't exist on real pianos like that.
| | 02:33 | (music playing)
| | 02:35 | So you probably will stay away from notes
like that when playing the piano sound, but
| | 02:38 | you might use them for say synthesizers.
| | 02:41 | The same thing goes if you go all
the way back up to the top, to +4.
| | 02:44 | I have these ridiculously high piano sounds,
which again might not sound too natural when
| | 02:49 | you have a piano selected, but might sound
okay when you're working with a synthesizer.
| | 02:53 | To get back to the default location, just
tap the middle between the two arrows and
| | 02:57 | it takes it back to 0, putting
middle C back in the center.
| | 02:59 | But again, just keep in mind you can always
just tap an arrow to go up or down while you are playing.
| | 03:03 | The next what you have is the Sustain switch
and this mimics the sustain pedal found on
| | 03:08 | regular pianos.
| | 03:09 | Currently, it's in the default or
off position, the lock position.
| | 03:13 | So when I play, I just hear the
regular sound of the Grand Piano.
| | 03:17 | If I switch this to the On or Unlock position,
I'll hear the sound of the sustained piano.
| | 03:23 | (music playing)
| | 03:26 | Now with it in that position, it's going to
continue to hold down that sustain pedal sound
| | 03:30 | just as if I continue to hold
down the pedal on a real piano.
| | 03:33 | Another way you can work this is to press the
Sustain button, notice it changes slightly
| | 03:38 | in color to turn off the Sustain temporarily,
that's kind of like pressing up and down on
| | 03:43 | the pedal on a piano.
| | 03:43 | (music playing)
| | 03:44 | So I have the regular sound there, when
I release, then I have the sustained.
| | 03:49 | This actually works the other way too which
might seem more natural if you're a piano player.
| | 03:52 | Its default position is off, but as you're
playing, you can work it with your left-hand
| | 03:57 | maybe as a pedal.
| | 03:58 | (music playing)
| | 04:00 | And hold it down when you want Sustain.
| | 04:02 | So the Sustain pedal works either as a switch
to at least sustain on or off or you can press
| | 04:07 | down or release to mimic the
action of a pedal on a piano.
| | 04:10 | In the center of the controls, we have this
button currently labeled Glissando and that
| | 04:14 | just tells me the default behavior of what
happens when I slide my finger horizontally
| | 04:18 | across the keyboard.
| | 04:19 | So currently, I am playing glissandos.
| | 04:23 | If I tap that, it switches to Scroll.
| | 04:26 | So now when I slide horizontally,
it actually moves the keyboard.
| | 04:30 | And how you have this set
depends on how you like to play.
| | 04:33 | If you want to be able to play Glissandos,
you want to lock it into position by keeping it there.
| | 04:38 | If you want to be able to scroll, for instance
if I were maybe playing a scale, I can slide
| | 04:45 | over and get my last note.
| | 04:48 | Now on some keyboards, you'll
see an additional setting.
| | 04:50 | If I switch to for example a Lead Synth, just
choose the Simple Lead, notice it has three
| | 04:57 | positions on it and this one
is currently set to Pitch.
| | 05:00 | This allows me to slide my finger
across the keys and play with the pitch.
| | 05:06 | So horizontally, I'm playing with the pitch.
| | 05:08 | If I move vertically, I
start playing with the tremolo.
| | 05:13 | But I can also tap that center button again
to get Glissando, or switch it to Scroll.
| | 05:21 | Of course, if you are working with the
default pianos or organs, you're not going to have
| | 05:25 | the Pitch control. That will only
show up for certain synthesizers.
| | 05:28 | Next, we have the Scale button.
| | 05:30 | This modifies the keyboard to only play
notes within a scale that you select.
| | 05:34 | This can be useful if you're not an
experienced keyboard player and you want to make sure
| | 05:37 | the notes you play fit
into the scale of the song.
| | 05:39 | For example, if I start by selecting Major,
I'll only hear the major notes, in this case
| | 05:44 | C major, or I could switch
to say the Major Blue scale.
| | 05:55 | This could also be really useful for just
soloing, because all the notes you play fit
| | 05:59 | into that scale, you can just sort of move
your finger around, and pick some notes and
| | 06:02 | they'll probably fit in with
the song that you are playing.
| | 06:05 | In this case though, I'll just switch that
off so I have all the keys available to me again.
| | 06:09 | Now as a reminder, GarageBand is working in
the key that I set for the overall song, and
| | 06:13 | again, that's found under the Settings here
under Key, and I currently have the default
| | 06:17 | C major key selected.
| | 06:19 | So be sure you have your keys selected before
you start playing around with the different scales.
| | 06:23 | Next, we have the Arpeggiator, and as its name
might suggest, it plays automatic arpeggios for you.
| | 06:29 | Basically, an arpeggio is instead of playing
all the notes in a chord at once, you just
| | 06:35 | play them one at a time in succession.
| | 06:37 | (music playing)
| | 06:41 | So that's a basic arpeggio.
| | 06:43 | What the Arpeggiator does is play those
sorts of things for you automatically.
| | 06:46 | If I turn that to on, I can choose things
like the Note Order, the Note Rate, and the
| | 06:50 | Octave Range.
| | 06:51 | So if I play a middle C right now--
| | 06:53 | (music playing)
| | 06:54 | What I'm hearing are octaves.
| | 06:57 | Now the Octave Range sets how many octaves I
hear. Currently I am hearing two octaves.
| | 07:01 | (music playing)
| | 07:02 | So that's the same as if I had the
Arpeggiator off and I just did this.
| | 07:05 | (music playing)
| | 07:07 | But it's basically playing it in
much better rhythm than I can.
| | 07:09 | Let me turn that back on.
| | 07:11 | We can set that up to as
far as four Octave Ranges.
| | 07:14 | (music playing)
| | 07:17 | And you can also choose the Note Order.
| | 07:20 | We can choose to go from low to high.
| | 07:23 | (music playing)
| | 07:26 | High to low.
| | 07:27 | (music playing)
| | 07:28 | We can go up and down.
| | 07:30 | (music playing)
| | 07:32 | We can have it done randomly.
| | 07:34 | (music playing)
| | 07:36 | And the As Played setting is useful if
you're holding down more than one key at a time,
| | 07:39 | it will play the notes in the
order that you press them.
| | 07:41 | (music playing)
| | 07:46 | So that's the Arpeggiator.
| | 07:47 | It's really good for keeping a solid rhythm
going maybe with just one hand that might
| | 07:51 | be more difficult to play
especially on the iPad screen like this.
| | 07:54 | Now we also have the Note Rate.
| | 07:56 | By default, it's playing 16th note, so if I
wanted something a little less frenetic,
| | 07:59 | I might change it to 8th notes.
| | 08:01 | (music playing)
| | 08:05 | And you can choose all the
different types of Note Rates here.
| | 08:08 | (music playing)
| | 08:11 | And so on.
| | 08:14 | Let's leave that off again for now.
| | 08:16 | And the final button here on the right are
the Keyboard Settings, and there are a couple
| | 08:19 | of different things you can set in here.
| | 08:21 | First of all, I can see I have
the single row of keys selected.
| | 08:24 | I can change it to having two rows of keys
if I want to have more keys available to me.
| | 08:29 | So you can see, I have middle C here, and I
have higher keys up here on the second row of keys.
| | 08:33 | Personally, I find it kind of difficult to
play like this anyway, so I usually prefer
| | 08:37 | just having one row of keys.
| | 08:41 | Now if you're playing a relatively simple
melody and you're having trouble hitting the
| | 08:44 | keys, you can make the keys fatter, so
they're easy to hit, but that also gives you fewer
| | 08:49 | keys to play.
| | 08:51 | We can also make the keys really thin, so
we have more keys to play, but again I find
| | 08:56 | it very difficult to be
accurate with the keys this narrow.
| | 09:00 | So let's switch it back to the default.
| | 09:02 | Also found here under the Keyboard
Settings are the Velocity controls.
| | 09:05 | Velocity is the term for how
hard you're hitting the keys.
| | 09:07 | Now because the iPad is just basically a
flat slab, there is no actual keys to press.
| | 09:12 | So unlike a traditional keyboard or even a
MIDI keyboard, there is nothing into the sense
| | 09:16 | how hard you're hitting a physical key.
| | 09:18 | Instead, the iPad uses its internal velocity
sensor and it can tell just by how much it
| | 09:22 | shakes how hard you're hitting the keys.
| | 09:24 | So I can play lightly or I can
tap harder for a louder note.
| | 09:29 | Now if you want a little bit more control
over the Velocity, you can turn the Velocity
| | 09:32 | controls on, that puts this slider
bar here on the left-hand side.
| | 09:37 | So this slider allows you to control the minimum
and maximum velocity sensitivity of the iPad.
| | 09:41 | Right now, it's at its default state, but if
I wanted the highest velocity, I can just
| | 09:46 | move this slider all the way to the top,
so both of them are right here at the top.
| | 09:49 | That's going to give me the loudest sound,
regardless of how lightly I am tapping on
| | 09:54 | the keyboard, or I can drag them both down,
and it's going to give me the quietest sound
| | 10:01 | no matter how hard I tap on the keyboard.
| | 10:03 | But of course, if I want it somewhere in the
middle, I can just use two fingers and spread
| | 10:06 | both of those out, so it's
got the widest dynamic range.
| | 10:10 | So you can choose to have that Velocity
slider On or Off using these Keyboard Controls.
| | 10:15 | If you adjust the Velocity a lot,
you'll probably want it On.
| | 10:18 | Now the last setting in here is Key Controls. This
basically determines whether this button in
| | 10:22 | the middle appears here.
| | 10:23 | So if I were to turn that Off,
you can see it disappears.
| | 10:27 | So if for instance, you always want a
horizontal sliding motion to produce a glissando rather
| | 10:31 | than sliding the keyboard around, you can
just set it to Glissando, turn it Off, and
| | 10:37 | that way you don't have to worry about it
anymore. You won't accidentally bump that button.
| | 10:40 | It will always be Glissando when I
drag my finger across the keys.
| | 10:44 | But of course you can always come back in here,
and turn it back On if you want to switch
| | 10:47 | it to the other behaviors.
| | 10:49 | All right, so those are controls you'll find in
common for pretty much all of the keyboards.
| | 10:54 | Now again, some of those keyboards will have
control specific to the type of sound they create.
| | 10:58 | For example, if I switch to the Rock Organ
again, you'll find things like the drawbars
| | 11:03 | that you'll find on traditional organs to
control the sound of the chorus, you've got
| | 11:06 | the switches for Percussion,
Chorus and Distortion.
| | 11:09 | There is even a Rotation bar here to adjust
the speed of the little virtually rotating
| | 11:15 | speaker inside here.
| | 11:17 | So if I played a chord, I could
speed that up, or slow it down.
| | 11:24 | But you can see we also have the same controls
that we saw on the Grand Piano, Octave Controls,
| | 11:29 | Glissando, Scale, and so on.
| | 11:30 | We don't have a sustain pedal
because organs don't have sustain pedals.
| | 11:34 | If I switch to a Synthesizer, we'll find a
lot of standard controls that you'll find
| | 11:40 | on regular synthesizers.
| | 11:41 | They'll always usually have a Pitch and
Modulation wheel to adjust pitch, and the modulation.
| | 11:48 | This particular one has the Velocity slider,
again, but you can turn that On and Off if
| | 11:52 | you want to over here.
| | 11:56 | And most of the synths will also have dials
for things like cut off, resonance, and attack,
| | 11:59 | and release.
| | 12:00 | Now the circular dials are controlled just by
putting your finger on them and just dragging
| | 12:04 | up and down.
| | 12:05 | You can also do a rotating motion around them
if you prefer, but I find it easier to just
| | 12:09 | go up and down on these circular dials.
| | 12:12 | And just in case these circular knobs aren't
behaving the way you expect them to, you can
| | 12:15 | go into your GarageBand settings, you'll have
to go into System Settings, find GarageBand,
| | 12:24 | and here you can choose Knob Gestures.
| | 12:26 | And currently, they're set to Automatic, but if
I tap that, I can choose Linear or Circular.
| | 12:30 | With Automatic set, they'll work both ways.
| | 12:32 | If I tap on a button, start dragging up and
down, it will go up and down, if I tap on
| | 12:35 | a button, start moving it around in a
circular fashion, it will work that way as well.
| | 12:38 | But you can lock it into one
or the other if you prefer.
| | 12:43 | Now really the key here, especially if you
don't have a lot of experience playing with
| | 12:46 | synths or organs, is to just open some
up and play around with their settings.
| | 12:50 | Spin some of those dials. Play around with
the different voices and things like that.
| | 12:53 | There is really no way you can ruin
the settings that are on an instrument.
| | 12:57 | If you mess up all the settings to something
that just sounds horrible, just pick a different
| | 13:01 | instrument, and then go back to the one you're
working with and it will go back to its default settings.
| | 13:07 | Now on the other hand, if you did create a
sound that you really like and you want to
| | 13:10 | make sure you can get it again without having
to manually set it each time, tap the name
| | 13:14 | of the instrument, and then tap Save.
| | 13:16 | Here, you can create a name for the sound you
just created, most awesome, name it whatever
| | 13:24 | you like, tap Done, and you'll see this has
created a new custom category here among the
| | 13:30 | keyboard categories.
| | 13:31 | So anytime I need to get back to that, I can
just go to Custom, select it, and it will
| | 13:36 | bring up the sounds that I've programmed in.
| | 13:39 | If you change your mind and it's not the great
sound you think it was, you can always come
| | 13:42 | back in, tap Edit, and delete it out of there,
and now I can just pick one of these standard
| | 13:49 | keyboards again.
| | 13:50 | So those are the settings and options
available to you when working with the Touch keyboard
| | 13:53 | in GarageBand.
| | 13:53 | Now if you are going to spend a lot of time
playing keys in GarageBand, I highly suggest
| | 13:58 | you pick up a physical keyboard like a MIDI
controller that you can connect to the iPad.
| | 14:02 | That way, you can play actual physical keys
rather than having to tap on the screen for
| | 14:06 | an extended period of time.
| | 14:07 | You're going to be much more
accurate playing real keys.
| | 14:10 | This particular keyboard connects to my iPad
using a USB cable that goes through the Apple
| | 14:14 | Camera Connection Kit, and that just plugs
right into the dock connector of the iPad.
| | 14:18 | Just about any MIDI keyboard will work though.
Be sure to check out one of the other course
| | 14:22 | in this series called Inputs, Mics and MIDI
where I show you a variety of ways to connect
| | 14:26 | keyboards to the iPad and GarageBand.
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| Playing drums| 00:00 | Now let's take a look at
the drums in GarageBand.
| | 00:03 | Like the keyboards, the drums are a Touch
instrument, but there aren't nearly as many
| | 00:06 | controls to keep track of.
| | 00:07 | When you select the Drums, you are presented
with the Classic Studio Kit. If I tap its
| | 00:13 | name, you can see I can
choose from five other kits.
| | 00:15 | Now three of this kits mimic these sounds of real
drums, while the other three model the sounds
| | 00:19 | of drum machines.
| | 00:20 | Let's stick with the Classic Studio Kit for now,
and the drums are pretty self-explanatory,
| | 00:25 | to play drum you just tap it.
| | 00:26 | (music playing)
| | 00:27 | The harder you tap the louder the sound.
| | 00:30 | (music playing)
| | 00:32 | Now what might not be immediately apparent
is some of the drums have different areas
| | 00:35 | you can tap for different sounds.
| | 00:37 | For example, on the ride cymbal, I get one
sound when I tap the flat surface of the ride.
| | 00:41 | (music playing)
| | 00:42 | And another sound if I tap the bell.
| | 00:44 | (music playing)
| | 00:46 | So it's subtle, but it's different.
| | 00:48 | (music playing)
| | 00:51 | In addition to the ride cymbal, the snare
drum in the hi-hat also have different regions
| | 00:54 | you can tap.
| | 00:55 | To show this a little bit better, I'm going
to tab the Help button up here and you can
| | 00:59 | see it actually shows you the
divisions of the different instruments.
| | 01:02 | So the left side of the
snare drum is a rim shot sound.
| | 01:05 | (music playing)
| | 01:07 | The larger side here is the snare drum
sound, and the rim is a side stick sound.
| | 01:12 | (music playing)
| | 01:13 | Similarly on the hi-hat, we have the pedal
hi-hat sound, so if you're just pressing on
| | 01:19 | the pedal of the hi-hat, you would get that sound.
| | 01:21 | We have the open hi-hat--
| | 01:22 | (music playing)
| | 01:24 | and the closed hi-hat.
| | 01:25 | (music playing)
| | 01:28 | So you just kind of have to remember
where these different regions are.
| | 01:32 | Now with the crash, the two rack toms, the
floor tom and the kick drum, it doesn't really
| | 01:36 | matter where you tap them.
| | 01:38 | (music playing)
| | 01:39 | You'll get the same sound even if I tap on
the rims of the rack toms, I still get the
| | 01:43 | rack tom sound.
| | 01:44 | You might have also noticed
that when I tap the crash cymbal--
| | 01:47 | (music playing)
| | 01:49 | the kick drum itself also plays
| | 01:50 | (music playing)
| | 01:52 | Which is generally what you
want when you hit a crash cymbal.
| | 01:54 | Now if you don't want the kick drum to play,
just use two fingers to tap the crash cymbal.
| | 01:57 | (music playing)
| | 02:01 | Here's another cool but kind of hidden
technique, if you tap anyone of these drums,
| | 02:04 | except for the crash cymbal with two fingers,
you'll get an automatically repeating note
| | 02:08 | that's in time with the
tempo that you've set.
| | 02:10 | So for instance, I can tap with
two fingers on the ride cymbal.
| | 02:13 | (music playing)
| | 02:14 | And I get those notes.
| | 02:15 | If I pull my fingers closer together, I get a
slow repetition, like quarter notes, and the
| | 02:20 | further I get my fingers apart,
the faster the rhythm will get.
| | 02:25 | (music playing)
| | 02:27 | This can make it much easier to play
repetitive patterns without having to constantly tap
| | 02:30 | on your screen.
| | 02:31 | For example, I can start a
pattern on the ride cymbal.
| | 02:34 | (music playing)
| | 02:36 | And then just add the kick and the snare.
| | 02:38 | (music playing)
| | 02:43 | Or something like that.
| | 02:45 | Another thing to know is when you have your
two fingers on the drum, if you push your
| | 02:49 | figures up towards the top of the screen, the hits
will get louder. You'll get a higher velocity hit.
| | 02:54 | (music playing)
| | 02:56 | If I pull down, it'll get quieter, and
that goes for pretty much all the drums.
| | 03:02 | (music playing)
| | 03:08 | Then I can spread my fingers
apart to get a faster pattern.
| | 03:10 | (music playing)
| | 03:12 | That can be really nice for snare rolls--
| | 03:15 | (music playing)
| | 03:16 | and so on. These playing techniques will work
with any of the real kits, so I can use these
| | 03:21 | with the Classic Studio Kit, the
Vintage Kit or the Live Rock Kit.
| | 03:25 | Each one has a different sound, but I
can still play them the exact same way.
| | 03:30 | (music playing)
| | 03:32 | Let's take a look now at the drum machine,
so I'll select the Classic Drum Machine.
| | 03:36 | These will pretty much play the same way, except
now we're looking at these sort of drum pads.
| | 03:40 | I can just tap them to get the same sounds,
and they play pretty much the same way; the
| | 03:45 | harder you tap, the louder they'll be.
| | 03:47 | I can use two fingers again.
| | 03:49 | (music playing)
| | 03:50 | And so on.
| | 03:51 | Now if you do want to tweak the Velocity
settings, you can go into the Mixer and choose your
| | 03:54 | Velocity Sensitivity here as well.
| | 03:56 | I'm just going to leave that the way it is.
| | 03:59 | Now with the drum machines you don't have
to worry about different tappable regions.
| | 04:02 | There is only one place to tap; any of the
cymbals or the snare, you just get the same sound.
| | 04:09 | What you do have here are different dials you can
play around with to change the sound of the drums.
| | 04:13 | Over here on the left we have Resolution and Lo-Fi
for adjusting the fidelity of the sound.
| | 04:16 | So for instance, this is what my
kick drum currently sounds like.
| | 04:19 | (music playing)
| | 04:20 | If I change our Resolution, just move that down--
| | 04:23 | (music playing)
| | 04:25 | It's drastically different.
| | 04:26 | (music playing)
| | 04:27 | Put it somewhere in the middle, with Lo-Fi
I can make it a little bit more low fidelity.
| | 04:33 | (music playing)
| | 04:36 | So you can get some pretty drastically
different sounds just by playing with these two dials.
| | 04:42 | Let's go back and bring the
resolution up a little bit more.
| | 04:45 | (music playing)
| | 04:47 | Now Low Cut and High Cut just let you cut out
certain frequencies, so for instance, if I
| | 04:50 | play kick drum and I turn up the low-cut,
you'll hear the bass coming out of that sound.
| | 04:56 | (music playing)
| | 04:58 | Where it's completely gone at
this point. It is just a click.
| | 04:59 | (music playing)
| | 05:03 | So you can just play with these dials until
you get a sound that you like. Now if you
| | 05:07 | do find a sound that you spent some time
programming and you want to keep, just like
| | 05:10 | with the keyboard settings, you can go into
the name of the drums, tap Save, and then
| | 05:16 | create a name for your kit.
| | 05:21 | I now have a Custom category here, so any time
I want to select it, say have another kit
| | 05:25 | selected by default,
| | 05:26 | if I want to switch back to the sound that
I created, I just go to Custom, select my
| | 05:31 | kit, and I'm ready to go.
| | 05:35 | Now just as before, if I want to delete
a kit I've created, I can tap its name again, tap
| | 05:40 | Edit, hit the little
Delete button and it's gone.
| | 05:43 | So I can switch back to
one of the default kits.
| | 05:46 | So it's pretty easy to
play the kits in GarageBand.
| | 05:49 | Now as I recommended with the keyboards, if
you're going to be spending a lot of time
| | 05:52 | playing drums in GarageBand, I highly recommend
getting a physical MIDI keyboard or even MIDI
| | 05:57 | drum pads, something that will allow you to
trigger the drums without having to tap your screen.
| | 06:00 | I am not really a huge fan of tapping on my
iPad screen for extended periods of time anyway.
| | 06:06 | And it's very easy to figure out which sounds are mapped
to which keys, once you have the keyboard connected.
| | 06:10 | Again, be sure to check out the other course
in this series called Inputs, Mics, and MIDI
| | 06:13 | where I show you how to connect all
types of MIDI devices to your iPad.
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| Using the sampler| 00:00 | The last Touch instrument I want to
look at in this chapter is the sampler.
| | 00:04 | In a nutshell, the sampler allows you to record
a snippet of audio and then play it back using
| | 00:08 | keyboard controls.
| | 00:09 | I'll tap to open the Sampler.
| | 00:12 | Now by default, the sampler
uses your iPad's built-in mic.
| | 00:15 | If you look at this large illustration at
the bottom here, it tells me I'm going to
| | 00:18 | record a sound using the iPad microphone.
| | 00:20 | It even helpfully tells me where
the microphone is on the iPad.
| | 00:23 | Now just so you can see how these works,
the sampler will detect other inputs.
| | 00:27 | Right here I have the Apogee Jam,
normally it's used for recording guitar.
| | 00:31 | So I could use this with the sampler if I
wanted to record maybe a snippet of guitar.
| | 00:34 | If I plug that in, you'll see the illustration
is now changed to show me that I'm going to
| | 00:41 | be recording from the USB input.
| | 00:43 | So the sampler will automatically detect if
you have a third-party input accessory attached,
| | 00:47 | but in this case I'll just use the
microphone, so I'm going to unplug that.
| | 00:50 | And the way this works is very easy.
| | 00:52 | I just tap the big honking Start button
here, and then I just start recording.
| | 00:57 | "Everything is in motion."
| | 01:00 | And when I'm done, I tap Stop.
| | 01:03 | And what you see here is a waveform representing
everything the iPad recorded as I was talking.
| | 01:07 | Now if I tap a key--
| | 01:09 | "--and then I just start recording.
| | 01:12 | "Everything is in motion and when I'm done--"
| | 01:15 | So it actually captured everything that I
was saying once I hit the Record button, as it should.
| | 01:20 | Now obviously I don't want to use all of that,
so I can use these Trim handles on either
| | 01:23 | side of the waveform to drag that in to
select just the waveform that I want to keep.
| | 01:30 | Notice if I hold down on the edge it actually
expands so I can get really tight to the beginning
| | 01:36 | of that waveform, and now when I play a key--
| | 01:38 | (audio playing)
| | 01:40 | I can hear just the part that I kept.
| | 01:43 | Now you'll notice that I'm playing middle C.
| | 01:44 | (audio playing)
| | 01:46 | If you want to hear the sample you played as
you recorded it, middle C is going to give
| | 01:49 | you the actual sample.
| | 01:50 | (audio playing)
| | 01:52 | Anything else you play will
either pitch it up or pitch it down.
| | 01:55 | (audio playing)
| | 01:59 | And there is nothing saying that you have
to hold down the key for the entire length
| | 02:02 | of your sample, I could just tap the key.
| | 02:04 | (audio playing)
| | 02:05 | To get that sort of effect.
| | 02:07 | Now when you record a sample it gets added
to the Library in the particular song you're working in.
| | 02:11 | I'm going to tap My Sample 1, which is
the name the sample I just recorded.
| | 02:14 | You can see it's listed here under this song.
It's not listed here under the Library.
| | 02:18 | A Library is a collection of sounds that are
available to all the songs that you're working on.
| | 02:23 | First of all, let me rename this.
| | 02:24 | It's currently says, My Sample 1, with it
selected I'll tap Rename and let's call this Motion.
| | 02:31 | So now I've a sample called
Motion in this particular song.
| | 02:34 | (audio playing)
| | 02:35 | Now if I wanted to, I could select
any of the other samples in here--
| | 02:39 | (audio playing)
| | 02:44 | If you need those kinds of samples
in the project you're working on.
| | 02:46 | But if you want the sample you recorded available in
other projects, you have to save it to the Library.
| | 02:51 | So I'll selected it and
then I'll tap add to library.
| | 02:54 | Now it's going to ask me to name it
again, so I'll just call it Motion again.
| | 02:58 | Tap Done.
| | 02:59 | And you can see now it's been added to my
Library, meaning it's now going to be available
| | 03:03 | for all the projects that I use the sampler in.
| | 03:06 | And you've probably noticed that I have the same
controls that were available when I was working with
| | 03:09 | the Keyboard Touch Instrument. I've got the
Octave controls, I can turn Sustain on and
| | 03:13 | off, I can adjust whether I get glissando--
| | 03:15 | (audio playing)
| | 03:18 | Or if it scrolls--
| | 03:19 | (audio playing)
| | 03:22 | Or if I want to work with pitch.
| | 03:24 | (audio playing)
| | 03:26 | Now if at any time I want to record additional
samples for this song, all I've to do is tap
| | 03:29 | New Sample, I get the Record button
again and I can record another sample.
| | 03:33 | Or I can go back to My Samples, maybe
I want to continue editing this one.
| | 03:37 | I'll tap the little arrow next to its name.
| | 03:40 | So I can still see the trim
adjustments that I made.
| | 03:42 | Notice that it does keep the entire waveform
though, so it does remember everything I recorded
| | 03:46 | in case I want to re-add some
of those sections in later.
| | 03:49 | Now in addition to trimming, we've other buttons
like Reverse, so if I want to hear it backwards.
| | 03:54 | (audio playing)
| | 03:58 | We also have a Loop button,
let me turn off Reverse.
| | 04:01 | Loop will ask you to hear the clip over and
over again as long as you hold down the key.
| | 04:04 | (audio playing)
| | 04:10 | Actually, let me turn
this back to a glissando.
| | 04:13 | I'll turn off Loop.
| | 04:15 | Now we also have the
ability to tune our samples.
| | 04:17 | Now this isn't great for a sample like this
where it's a spoken word sample, but if you
| | 04:20 | have captured somebody singing a note for
example, you might want to tune them so they
| | 04:24 | fit the pitch of your song.
| | 04:26 | So you can use the coarse tuning to do broader
adjustments or fine tune it with this slider,
| | 04:31 | and if you play a note--
| | 04:32 | (audio playing)
| | 04:35 | The sampler will actually play a tone, so
you know what note you are adjusting towards.
| | 04:39 | We also have a Shape setting, and Shape
adjusts the loudness of your sample over time.
| | 04:44 | By default, your sample is at its loudest when
it comes in, stays level and then it drops quickly off.
| | 04:49 | (audio playing)
| | 04:51 | If I wanted it to gradually fade in a little
bit more, I might move this first point over
| | 04:54 | to the right a bit, and you'll hear it
fade in a little bit more--
| | 04:57 | (audio playing)
| | 04:59 | And then drop-off.
| | 05:01 | So I can adjust any of these points, if I
wanted more of a steep drop-off I could do that.
| | 05:04 | (audio playing)
| | 05:05 | So you can play around with
the shape of your sample
| | 05:08 | (audio playing)
| | 05:11 | If at any time you wanted to start over again
from scratch, just tap the Revert button and
| | 05:15 | it will go back to the original setting here, so you
don't have to worry about manually resetting the shape.
| | 05:19 | Lastly, if you want to delete a sample either
from the song or from your Library, just select
| | 05:24 | it, then tap the Delete key, then you can
also tap other samples you might want to get
| | 05:29 | rid of. Maybe I want to get rid of this sample
entirely from both this song and from my Library,
| | 05:33 | then tap Delete.
| | 05:34 | It's going to ask me am I sure I want to
delete these two samples because this is permanent
| | 05:38 | I won't be able to undo it.
| | 05:39 | So I'll tap Delete.
| | 05:41 | So you can see I no longer have any samples
in this particular song, so I might want to
| | 05:44 | go to New Sample and record a new sample.
| | 05:47 | So that's the Sampler.
| | 05:48 | It's kind of a unique instrument
to have available in GarageBand.
| | 05:51 | You might not use it all the time, but it's
nice to know that it's there and if you need
| | 05:54 | it you can pull it up and
start recording some samples.
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3. Playing Smart InstrumentsPlaying Smart Drums| 00:00 | In the previous chapter we looked at
GarageBand's Touch Instruments; namely the Keyboard, the
| | 00:05 | Drums and the Sampler, and all those required
at least a little bit of musical knowledge
| | 00:09 | in order to play.
| | 00:10 | But if you're not a musician that
doesn't mean you can't use GarageBand.
| | 00:13 | GarageBand comes with a selection
of what it calls Smart Instruments.
| | 00:16 | Smart Instruments automatically generate
rhythms, melodies and other musical patterns.
| | 00:20 | And usually all it takes is a couple taps with
your finger and you're generating professional sounding music.
| | 00:25 | GarageBand has Smart Drums, Smart Strings,
Smart Bass, Smart Keyboards and a Smart Guitar.
| | 00:32 | You can tell which one is a Smart Instrument
is by the little gear frame that the icons appear in.
| | 00:37 | Let's go back and start with the Smart Drums.
| | 00:42 | The Smart Drum interface looks a lot different
than the Drum Kit interface we saw with the GarageBand Drums.
| | 00:47 | If I tap the Drum's name, I get access to the
same six types of drums that were available
| | 00:50 | when we were playing the
drum instrument earlier.
| | 00:53 | Now depending on the instrument you select
you'll see different drums available here
| | 00:56 | on the right. Any where between 10 and 6 will
appear depending on the machine you pick.
| | 01:04 | Let's try the House Drum Machine.
| | 01:06 | Now you can get a sample of what
these drums sound like by tapping them.
| | 01:09 | (music playing)
| | 01:11 | Although, that's not the way you
really supposed to play them here.
| | 01:13 | What you are supposed to
do is use this Grid area.
| | 01:16 | Notice it's labeled left or right; Simple
to Complex and then from top to bottom Loud to Quiet.
| | 01:21 | Basically what you do here is drag the
instruments into parts of this Grid.
| | 01:25 | So for example, if I wanted a loud and complex
hi-hat pattern, I'd drag it somewhere in the
| | 01:29 | upper right quadrant.
| | 01:31 | (music playing)
| | 01:34 | Like so.
| | 01:36 | (music playing)
| | 01:39 | If I wanted a sound that was a similar loudness,
but a little less complex, I'd drag that to
| | 01:43 | the left but keep it at the same height.
| | 01:46 | (music playing)
| | 01:48 | You can turn the machine playback on
and off with this Power button here.
| | 01:53 | And now it's just a matter of dragging
in other drums to create my patterns.
| | 01:58 | (music playing)
| | 02:05 | Now as you start to build your pattern, you
might want to start by dragging a drum in
| | 02:09 | towards the top so you can
hear what the pattern is.
| | 02:11 | Once you settle on the pattern that you like
you then drag it down to lower it in the mix.
| | 02:14 | (music playing)
| | 02:16 | For instance--
| | 02:17 | (music playing)
| | 02:20 | Maybe I like that there, let's pull down a bit.
| | 02:26 | (music playing)
| | 02:28 | Incidentally you can drag the drums on top
of each other if you want them to have the
| | 02:32 | same loudness and complexities.
| | 02:33 | So if you want the Shaker and the Bongos to
be the same I can just line them up together.
| | 02:39 | (music playing)
| | 02:41 | To start all over again from
scratch, just tap the Reset button.
| | 02:44 | Now if you're not sure of the pattern that
you want to use, you can roll the die here
| | 02:48 | to generate a random pattern.
| | 02:49 | (music playing)
| | 02:51 | Each time you tap it--
| | 02:51 | (music playing)
| | 02:52 | you will get a different pattern.
| | 02:55 | (music playing)
| | 02:58 | You can always just start with the random
pattern and then just start adding drums to
| | 03:01 | it to build on that random pattern.
| | 03:05 | (music playing)
| | 03:11 | So it's pretty easy to get a
beat going pretty quickly.
| | 03:14 | Now when it comes to recording the Smart
Drums you don't have to build the entire pattern
| | 03:17 | out together, you can actually
build it live as you are recording.
| | 03:20 | Again, we'll get more into the ins and outs
of recording a little bit later, but just
| | 03:23 | to give you a quick sample here I'll take
the Playhead back to the beginning and just
| | 03:27 | clear everything off, maybe I just want to
start with say the kick, snare, and hi-hat.
| | 03:32 | (music playing)
| | 03:35 | Something like that.
| | 03:37 | (music playing)
| | 03:38 | So when I tap Record up here, those will be
the notes that we hear first, and as we go
| | 03:41 | through these eight bars at the top
I can start dragging in more drums.
| | 03:46 | (music playing)
| | 04:10 | So after it gets to the end of the eight bars,
it stops recording and it takes the Playhead
| | 04:13 | back, and you notice it just wiped all those
drums out that I added on, since I only start
| | 04:16 | it out with those three original drums.
| | 04:18 | But if I tap Play again you'll see
the drums added as I recorded them.
| | 04:21 | (music playing)
| | 04:41 | So it's really easy to create and record drum
patterns with the Smart Drums, and just to
| | 04:44 | illustrate this little bit more, I'll tap over
to the Track View and here's the MIDI region
| | 04:50 | I just created, and you can actually see it
increasing in complexity towards the end here
| | 04:54 | as I drag in more drums.
| | 04:55 | And all these drums are in perfect timing and
I hardly needed a sense of rhythm to create
| | 04:59 | that at all.
| | 05:00 | So that's working with the
Smart Drums in GarageBand.
| | 05:02 | Again, it's incredibly easy way to create
intricate and interesting drum patterns in your projects.
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| Playing Smart Guitar and Smart Bass| 00:00 | Let's continue our tour of the Smart Instruments by
looking at the Smart Guitar and the Smart Bass.
| | 00:05 | And the Smart Guitar especially is just
a great and fun tool to have on hand
| | 00:08 | when you are trying to flesh out parts or
come up with a demo. It's very easy to learn.
| | 00:13 | You don't even necessarily need to know how
to play guitar to come up with some great
| | 00:16 | sounding guitar parts.
| | 00:17 | So let's start by taking a
look at the Smart Guitar.
| | 00:21 | So right now we are seeing a
representation of an acoustic guitar.
| | 00:25 | If you tap the Acoustic name, you see I have
access to three other guitars you can play
| | 00:28 | around with; you've got the Classic Clean,
Hard Rock, you can see these all have different
| | 00:36 | looks, and the Roots Rock.
| | 00:39 | So four distinct guitar
sounds to choose from here.
| | 00:42 | Let's go back and start with the acoustic.
| | 00:45 | Now there are couple of ways you can play
the Smart Guitar. At its default state here
| | 00:49 | you can tap the top of these chord strips,
you can see that each have a chord name at
| | 00:53 | the top and simply by
tapping one, you play that chord.
| | 00:56 | (music playing)
| | 01:00 | Another way to play it is just to simply
tapping the notes on the chord strips.
| | 01:06 | (music playing)
| | 01:11 | Or you can also strum it like a real guitar.
| | 01:14 | (music playing)
| | 01:16 | You can even do a combination
of tapping notes and strumming.
| | 01:20 | (music playing)
| | 01:26 | Now you might have been noticing I have been
muting the chords simply by holding down in
| | 01:30 | one of the blank areas on the
end of the fretboard here.
| | 01:32 | You can do that on either end.
| | 01:34 | You can actually hold that down while you
play your strum--
| | 01:36 | (music playing)
| | 01:39 | to get the muted guitar sound.
| | 01:41 | Now the chords that we are seeing right
now are based on the key of the song.
| | 01:44 | If you recall we go to Settings, and you
can see the key currently is C major.
| | 01:49 | So GarageBand selects the chords that are
most common for the key you've selected.
| | 01:53 | If you want to change a key, let's go back
into Settings, and if I choose say A minor,
| | 02:00 | you can see I get a different set of
chords, and change that back to C major.
| | 02:08 | Now there may be cases where you want to keep
the current key of the song, but you want
| | 02:11 | to use a different chord, maybe
one that doesn't appear here.
| | 02:14 | In that case all you do is go back
to Settings and tap Edit Chords.
| | 02:19 | From here select the chord
strip that you want to change.
| | 02:21 | So maybe in this case I want to start with
the B-flat and I want to change that to a
| | 02:26 | B-flat Diminished, 7th, and you even get the
choice here of changing the bass note of the chord.
| | 02:33 | So right now it's an A#, I could make that
an A, or a B, and so on. Maybe I'll just make
| | 02:41 | that an F.
| | 02:44 | So right now I have a B-flat
Diminished 7th with an F bass.
| | 02:48 | (music playing)
| | 02:51 | Sounds like that.
| | 02:51 | Once you change a chord strip, it's going
to stay that way no matter which guitar you
| | 02:55 | select, so if I switched over to say the Hard
Rock Guitar, I still have that same chord.
| | 03:00 | (music playing)
| | 03:03 | Now if you change your mind and you want to
set the chord back to the way it was, just
| | 03:07 | go back to your Settings > Edit
Chords, select it and then tap Revert.
| | 03:14 | So now we are back to the B-flat major.
| | 03:16 | So you can see there are many
ways to play the Smart Guitar.
| | 03:20 | Now these methods I have shown you so far,
still require a sense of rhythm and some knowledge
| | 03:24 | about the way notes work.
| | 03:25 | Now if you want GarageBand to do more of the
heavy-lifting for you, you can use the Autoplay feature.
| | 03:29 | You can see, we have an Autoplay
dial here it has four positions.
| | 03:32 | I can simply move that to one of the four
positions and you can see the strings have
| | 03:37 | now disappeared from the fretboard, all I
have to do now is tap a chord strip to play it.
| | 03:41 | (music playing)
| | 03:44 | Look ma, no hands!
| | 03:46 | (music playing)
| | 03:50 | You can choose one of the other positions.
You have some finger-picking going on there.
| | 03:55 | (music playing)
| | 04:04 | Now another really cool thing about this is
there are actually two more hidden patterns
| | 04:07 | within each one of these chord strips.
| | 04:09 | When you tap with one finger, you get one
chord pattern, if you tap with two you've
| | 04:16 | got a slightly different one, and if you
tap with three, you get yet another one.
| | 04:22 | (music playing)
| | 04:28 | And that's the case for each one of
these four different Autoplay positions.
| | 04:32 | (music playing)
| | 04:35 | There is the basic, and
slightly more aggressive.
| | 04:43 | (music playing)
| | 04:48 | So those are the different Autoplay
positions you can play around with.
| | 04:51 | It really adds a lot of variety to the music
you are trying to compose, and that holds the
| | 04:55 | same no matter which guitar you select.
| | 04:56 | If I go back to the Hard Rock Guitar for instance,
we have different Autoplay patterns here as well.
| | 05:01 | (music playing)
| | 05:06 | Three fingers, or go back to two.
| | 05:10 | (music playing)
| | 05:14 | Now yet another way to play the Smart
Guitar is to switch from chords to notes.
| | 05:19 | Each guitar has a switch where you can go
from chords to notes and that gives you a
| | 05:22 | fretboard for that particular guitar.
| | 05:25 | So here instead of strumming chord strips,
you'd tap out the notes you want to play.
| | 05:28 | (music playing)
| | 05:29 | You can even bend the strings.
| | 05:32 | You can play multiple notes together.
| | 05:37 | (music playing)
| | 05:41 | And as we saw with the regular Touch instruments,
you also have access to the Scale button so
| | 05:45 | you can choose what type of
scale you want to play in.
| | 05:46 | So for instance if I chose Minor Blues, all
the notes I play will be in that particular scale.
| | 05:52 | (music playing)
| | 05:57 | Now you notice that we have certain
frets that are lighter than the others.
| | 06:00 | (music playing)
| | 06:01 | Those are all the roots in a particular scale.
| | 06:05 | So this makes it very easily to
solo in the scale that you selected.
| | 06:07 | I am going to switch out back to the Off position,
so I have access to the full fretboard again.
| | 06:12 | Now you maybe noticed that the electric guitars
also have two effects pedals associated with each one.
| | 06:17 | So in this case with the Hard Rock I have
Vintage Drive and Robo Flanger, and you simply
| | 06:22 | turn them on by tapping their foot switches
there and then you can hear the effects.
| | 06:26 | (music playing)
| | 06:30 | Each guitar has its own set of two pedals,
but you can't change them when you're working
| | 06:35 | with the Smart Guitar, the only time you can
swap pedals in and out are if you're working
| | 06:38 | with the actual guitar amp instrument.
| | 06:41 | So just so you can get an idea of how these
pedals sound, I am just going to switch back
| | 06:44 | to Chords, I'll turn on Autoplay and
I'll just tap the pedals on and off.
| | 06:48 | (music playing)
| | 06:58 | Nice little echo effect
there. Try on the Classic Clean.
| | 07:03 | (music playing)
| | 07:06 | Here is the Chorus.
| | 07:08 | (music playing)
| | 07:15 | So you can get some great additional sounds by
adding the stomp boxes to your Smart Guitar.
| | 07:19 | All right, now let's take
a look at the Smart Bass.
| | 07:22 | Select Instruments, switch over to Smart Bass.
| | 07:28 | So the Smart Bass layout is
very similar to the Smart Guitar.
| | 07:31 | We have the same types of chord strips.
| | 07:33 | Only with the Smart Bass we can't tap the top
of the Chord Strips to play chords because
| | 07:37 | you generally don't play chords on a bass, but you
can tap out bass patterns by either strumming
| | 07:42 | the chords like this or just tap out a rhythm.
| | 07:44 | (music playing)
| | 07:46 | The bass also has its own Autoplay
patterns. Each one has four positions again.
| | 07:51 | (music playing)
| | 07:55 | And you have the same hidden patterns
by tapping with two or three fingers.
| | 07:59 | (music playing)
| | 08:08 | You can select from three models of electric
basses: Liverpool, Muted, and Picked, and
| | 08:13 | Upright bass as well. This is cool
if you want an upright bass sound.
| | 08:17 | (music playing)
| | 08:21 | Especially cool if you want a fretless sound,
you can switch over to Notes, again we see
| | 08:24 | the fretboard here, but you can do
slides and bends on the bass here as well.
| | 08:28 | (music playing)
| | 08:30 | And that holds true again
for whichever bass you pick.
| | 08:33 | You get the fretboard when
we have notes selected.
| | 08:36 | Incidentally, if you want to play the open
notes of any of these strings, just play behind
| | 08:41 | the nut here, that will give
you the E here for example.
| | 08:44 | (music playing)
| | 08:49 | GarageBand also includes four synth basses
in here as well, for instance Exoplanet and
| | 08:55 | they make it very easy for you to play this
instrument if you're used to playing the bass
| | 08:58 | fretboard, but it sounds very
different from a regular bass.
| | 09:01 | (music playing)
| | 09:03 | You've got controls for Cut-Off and in this
case, FM--actually let me pick a different
| | 09:09 | bass that holds out a little bit longer.
| | 09:13 | This changes to Resonance in this case,
we could start playing with sounds here.
| | 09:17 | (music playing)
| | 09:26 | Or of course you can also switch back to
Chords where you can tap Autoplay Chords--
| | 09:31 | (music playing)
| | 09:39 | or just again, tap out specific
notes on the chord strips.
| | 09:43 | So for the most part, Smart Bass and Smart
Guitar are very similar to each other and
| | 09:47 | you shouldn't have much trouble playing them
once you get a little hands-on time playing
| | 09:49 | both of those instruments.
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| Playing Smart Keyboards| 00:00 | Now let's take a look at the Smart Keyboard.
| | 00:03 | Like the other Smart instruments, it makes
it easy to play professional sounding parts
| | 00:06 | even if you're not an
experienced keyboard player.
| | 00:08 | I will start by opening up the Smart Keyboard.
| | 00:11 | If I tap Grand Piano, you see I have
eight different keyboards to choose from.
| | 00:15 | We've got the Piano, the Rock Organ, an Electric
Piano, the Smooth Clav, and we have four different
| | 00:21 | synthesizers to choose from.
| | 00:22 | I will keep the Grand Piano selected.
| | 00:24 | Now if you saw the previous movie on using
the Smart Guitar, this should look kind of
| | 00:27 | familiar to you.
| | 00:28 | Instead of piano keys we see
these eight chord strips.
| | 00:31 | Again, these chords are selected based on
the key of the song you're working in, which
| | 00:34 | again we find under Settings and
here is where we set our key.
| | 00:39 | Now each chord strip is
divided into eight sections.
| | 00:42 | The gray areas at the bottom
are your bass or lower notes.
| | 00:45 | For instance on the C chord strip, the low
note here is a low C, the top gray note is
| | 00:50 | a higher C, but they are both below middle C
and between that is the G or the fifth of that chord.
| | 00:57 | The white part at the top is
divided into five sections.
| | 01:00 | So again on the C chord strip, we will find
the C major triad here in the middle and the
| | 01:05 | sections above that you'll find
the higher and lower inversions.
| | 01:08 | So there is the C triad.
| | 01:09 | Then we have two inversions above
that and two inversions below that.
| | 01:14 | You can play the note
simply by tapping or sliding.
| | 01:19 | If you do choose to slide, the first tap
you make in the white area will play a full
| | 01:22 | chord and then as you slide,
you will hear individual notes.
| | 01:25 | (music playing)
| | 01:28 | If you slide from the bottom, you will still
get that individual bass note, but as soon
| | 01:31 | as you hit a white note, you get that
full chord and then individual notes.
| | 01:36 | And because you can play all these sections
individually, you don't necessarily have to
| | 01:40 | stay on the same strip between
the right and the left-hand.
| | 01:43 | (music playing)
| | 01:48 | Now you might have also noticed we have a
couple of the buttons that we find in the
| | 01:50 | regular keyboard instrument, like the Sustain
which we can switch to on so we hear the sustained
| | 01:56 | notes, and again, remember we can also just
use that as sort of a finger pedal by holding
| | 02:01 | down on it and releasing.
| | 02:03 | (music playing)
| | 02:07 | And we also have the Arpeggiator which I
explained in the movie on using the keyboard, but again,
| | 02:12 | we can turn that on.
| | 02:13 | We see the same controls here as we do with the
keyboard, but this allows me to do things like this.
| | 02:17 | (music playing)
| | 02:23 | So again the Arpeggiator is very useful if you
want to keep a pattern going without having
| | 02:26 | to tap all those notes out
rapidly yourself on the glass.
| | 02:29 | This could also be really useful if you have
a MIDI keyboard connected to your iPad. You
| | 02:33 | could actually hold down a note with the
Arpeggiator and then just play regular notes with the
| | 02:38 | MIDI keyboard, because when you have a MIDI
keyboard connected, it's just a regular piano.
| | 02:41 | It just plays the regular piano notes. It doesn't
try to play the chord strips or anything like that.
| | 02:46 | So that's how to manually
play the Smart Keyboard.
| | 02:48 | Now because it's a Smart instrument, you also
have the Autoplay options available to you.
| | 02:52 | Just like with the Smart Guitar and the Smart Bass,
we have four different positions of Autoplay.
| | 02:56 | Notice as soon as I select
that the sections disappear.
| | 02:59 | But I still can choose different
right-hand and left-hand parts.
| | 03:04 | (music playing)
| | 03:06 | And we add the bass in.
| | 03:08 | (music playing)
| | 03:14 | So in this case, I have an A minor bass going
on, but I still have the C going on with the
| | 03:18 | right-hand notes, choose a different pattern
and just like with the Smart Guitar again
| | 03:28 | we have access to those hidden Autoplay
patterns by tapping with two or three fingers.
| | 03:33 | (music playing)
| | 03:34 | So there is two.
| | 03:36 | (music playing)
| | 03:38 | There is three.
| | 03:39 | (music playing)
| | 03:44 | So you can do that with all four of the different
Autoplay patterns giving a total of 12 different
| | 03:48 | patterns you can choose for Autoplay.
| | 03:49 | Now again, bear in mind that just because
these eight chords are the ones that GarageBand
| | 03:53 | has picked as the most useful in this
particular key, you are not locked into those for all
| | 03:57 | of the chord strips.
| | 03:58 | Remember, you can go to your Settings, you
can keep things in the key of C, but there
| | 04:02 | are plenty of other chords that
can be played in the key of C.
| | 04:04 | If you want to change one of the other chord
strips, just tap Edit Chords and again here
| | 04:08 | you can dial in the chord you want by first
selecting the chord you want to change, changing
| | 04:12 | its Settings, and then hitting Done.
| | 04:14 | You can always go back to the
way it was by tapping Revert too.
| | 04:18 | So that's how to play and
work with the Smart Keyboard.
| | 04:20 | Again, if you're not a piano player, this is
still a great way to get some great keyboard
| | 04:23 | sounds into your songs, but even if you are
an experienced keyboard player, you can maybe
| | 04:27 | turn on Autoplay for some inspiration or just
look at the different chords and come up with
| | 04:31 | different ideas to help you
compose the songs you are working on.
| | 04:35 | So again that's the Smart Keyboard.
| | 04:36 | We've got one more Smart Instrument
to look at and we will do that next.
| | 04:40 |
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| Playing Smart Strings| 00:00 | The final Smart instrument we are going
to take a look at here is Smart Strings.
| | 00:04 | Now Smart Strings didn't originally ship with
the first release of GarageBand, it came with
| | 00:08 | an update in March 2012.
| | 00:10 | So if you have purchased GarageBand before
then and haven't yet updated, make sure you
| | 00:14 | go to App Store and update, so you will see
Smart Strings appear when you open GarageBand.
| | 00:18 | And what Smart Strings does is it gives you
an entire string section right here in your iPad.
| | 00:24 | As with the other Smart Instruments you will
see eight chord strips here in the interface
| | 00:27 | and here they're all
divided into four sections.
| | 00:30 | You can play these a number of different ways.
| | 00:33 | Tapping in the chord strip
gives you a pizzicato sound.
| | 00:36 | The four different sections of the chord strip
give you different inversions for that chord.
| | 00:40 | (music playing)
| | 00:43 | You can also slide your finger
along the chord strip like a bow.
| | 00:46 | (music playing)
| | 00:48 | The more intense you slide,
the louder the sound will get.
| | 00:52 | You can use this technique to
create swells in the music.
| | 00:54 | The more you would slide,
the more intense it will get.
| | 00:56 | If I stop, it will start to decay and
if I slide again, it will come back.
| | 01:02 | Where you start sliding also
determines the chord that's being used.
| | 01:05 | So if I started down here, we'll hear that.
| | 01:08 | (music playing)
| | 01:09 | If I start it up here, we'll hear
a different version of the chord.
| | 01:12 | (music playing)
| | 01:14 | You can also do fast slides across the
chord strips for more staccato bowing sounds.
| | 01:21 | And again where you place your finger when
you do those swipes is going to affect the sound.
| | 01:24 | (music playing)
| | 01:29 | So there you have three different ways you
can play the Smart Strings and you can combine
| | 01:31 | them all together.
| | 01:39 | So the iPad's touchscreen really gives you
a unique tool to create these string sounds.
| | 01:43 | This is something you definitely couldn't do
with a computer keyboard or a mouse.
| | 01:46 | You can't dynamically rub your mouse up and
down on your mouse pad like this, but you
| | 01:50 | can do it here on the surface of the iPad.
| | 01:53 | Now you might have noticed across the top
of the screen here we have the instruments
| | 01:56 | that are divided into Violin
sections, Violas, Cellos and Basses.
| | 02:00 | You can actually tap to disable or
reenable any of these that you like.
| | 02:04 | So for intense if I only wanted a cello part, I
could just make sure the Cello is highlighted,
| | 02:08 | and now I am only hearing the cello.
| | 02:11 | I can still tap the different regions--
| | 02:12 | (music playing)
| | 02:16 | I have the same ability
to play staccato strikes
| | 02:19 | or long-going actions.
| | 02:22 | And if I need to, I just bring in
more instruments maybe cello and viola.
| | 02:25 | (music playing)
| | 02:28 | So you can create some
really unique sounds this way.
| | 02:31 | As with the other Smart Instruments you can
switch between playing chords and individual notes.
| | 02:35 | If I tap Notes, again I see a fretboard
here and right now I am looking at the cello.
| | 02:40 | (music playing)
| | 02:43 | So I can play a cello, I can swipe through and
find maybe the violin for totally different sounds.
| | 02:48 | (music playing)
| | 02:51 | Now we can play this one of two ways;
I can play the strings like this.
| | 02:55 | (music playing)
| | 02:59 | But if I hold down over here, notice that
highlights, I can use this then to pluck the strings.
| | 03:04 | (music playing)
| | 03:09 | Or if I do want to bow while holding this
down, if I want to do a combination of plucking
| | 03:12 | and bowing, I just hold down on the string,
you will see that little vertical line appear
| | 03:16 | and then I can bow
across the strings this way.
| | 03:19 | (music playing)
| | 03:20 | So we can do a
combination of the two that way.
| | 03:27 | And again it's just a matter of choosing
which instrument you want to play this way.
| | 03:30 | Also, as with the other Smart Instruments,
you can tap the Scale button to limit the
| | 03:34 | notes just to certain scales that you select, for
instance, I'll choose the maybe Minor Pentatonic
| | 03:39 | here. This is especially useful with fretless
instruments like this if you're a little worried
| | 03:42 | about getting the note a little bit sharp or
flat, now you don't have to worry about it.
| | 03:46 | You're only going to play notes that
are within that particular scale.
| | 03:48 | (music playing)
| | 03:53 | I'll switch that back to the full fretboard
and of course since this is a Smart Instrument,
| | 03:59 | we have the Autoplay feature available.
| | 04:01 | I'll switch back to Chords, we'll find our
Autoplay dial, and again, we have four different
| | 04:06 | positions we can place it in.
| | 04:08 | (music playing)
| | 04:13 | So it's just a matter of moving the dial.
| | 04:17 | (music playing)
| | 04:30 | And as before, you can get variations on
the different Autoplay patterns by tapping
| | 04:33 | with one, two or three fingers.
| | 04:35 | (music playing)
| | 04:52 | Not only do you get those three variations
| | 04:54 | within those four Autoplay patterns, you can
also drastically change the sound of what's
| | 04:58 | being played by going up to the Cinematic button,
and here I can choose from three additional styles.
| | 05:03 | So for instance right now if I play a D minor,
I hear this for Cinematic, but if I change
| | 05:12 | it to Modern, I'll hear this.
| | 05:13 | (music playing)
| | 05:18 | Here is Pop--
| | 05:19 | (music playing)
| | 05:24 | and Romantic.
| | 05:26 | (music playing)
| | 05:30 | And again within each of these four different
styles, you can still move the Autoplay dial
| | 05:38 | and get different variations.
| | 05:40 | Now these different styles not only apply
to Autoplay, but if you have Autoplay off,
| | 05:45 | you will still get different
voicings between say Cinematic and Modern.
| | 05:52 | And so even though it's the same chord,
you still get different voicings.
| | 05:56 | And if that's not enough for you, you can also
incorporate the idea of bringing in different
| | 05:59 | instruments at different times.
| | 06:01 | So maybe I'll have Autoplay on, and
I'll start with just my 1st Violins.
| | 06:06 | (music playing)
| | 06:09 | And gradually add in the other instruments.
| | 06:12 | (music playing)
| | 06:28 | So that's Smart Strings.
| | 06:29 | It's a great tool for adding depth
and a unique tone to your music.
| | 06:32 | Even if you are primarily recording guitar
music, adding some strings underneath there,
| | 06:36 | can really take your
songs to another dimension.
| | 06:39 |
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4. Playing Real InstrumentsUsing guitar amps and stompboxes| 00:00 | Up to this point, we've been working
with GarageBand's built-in instruments.
| | 00:04 | These are the instruments you play either by
tapping the screen or through a MIDI keyboard
| | 00:08 | that you connect directly to the iPad.
| | 00:10 | But GarageBand is also capable of recording
real instruments such as guitars which you
| | 00:13 | can plug into the iPad, or even sounds out of
the air that you can capture with a microphone
| | 00:17 | also plugged into the iPad.
| | 00:18 | In this movie, we're going to talk
about connecting a guitar to the iPad.
| | 00:22 | All electric guitars and many acoustic
guitars use a standard quarter-inch guitar cable.
| | 00:27 | Now there's a world of accessories out there
for connecting a guitar cable to your iPad,
| | 00:31 | and for more information on these different
types of accessories, be sure to check out
| | 00:34 | the course in this series
called Inputs, Mics, and MIDI.
| | 00:37 | But very briefly, there are two ways to get
sounds into your iPad, either with an accessory
| | 00:42 | that connects through the headphone jack or an
accessory that connects to the dock connector.
| | 00:46 | I have an example of two of
these accessories here.
| | 00:49 | This is the iRig from IK Multimedia. Your
guitar plugs into one end and the other end
| | 00:54 | goes right into the
headphone jack of your iPad.
| | 00:58 | And this is the Jam from Apogee.
| | 01:00 | The guitar plugs into one end of the Apogee
and the other end plugs into the dock connector
| | 01:04 | of your iPad.
| | 01:04 | For this movie, I'm going
to use the Apogee Jam.
| | 01:07 | I tend to prefer the accessories I plug into
the dock connector of the iPad because that
| | 01:10 | converts your audio to digital right away,
and you tend to get a much better sound with
| | 01:14 | digital connections than you will
through the headphone jack of your iPad.
| | 01:18 | So we just take the included cable for the
Jam, plug one end into the Jam, and the other
| | 01:25 | end goes into the dock connector of the iPad.
| | 01:28 | You can see we've a guitar jack end right
there, so we'll just take one end of the guitar
| | 01:33 | cable, plug that in.
| | 01:35 | Now to help me out with this movie, I am
going to have our producer Todd come up to play
| | 01:39 | some guitar, so I can
continue working the iPad.
| | 01:45 | Here is your guitar cable.
| | 01:48 |
| | 01:54 | Okay, so now we have a connection from the
guitar into the Apogee Jam that goes right
| | 01:59 | into our iPad's dock connector.
| | 02:01 | So once it's all connected, we fire up GarageBand
and I'm going to open up the Guitar Amp instrument.
| | 02:07 | The Guitar Amp instrument contains nine
different classic guitar model sounds that mimic some
| | 02:11 | of the most iconic sounds
throughout rock music history.
| | 02:14 | You simply swipe through to select
different types of guitar amps.
| | 02:18 | Now before we can try out any of these amps,
we have to make sure we can hear our guitar.
| | 02:22 | So I'm going to go to the Input Settings
button here in the upper left-hand corner and I'm
| | 02:25 | going to make sure that Monitor is turned on.
| | 02:28 | With the Monitor on, you are going to hear
guitar either through the iPad's built-in
| | 02:31 | speaker, or if you have headphones plugged in,
you will hear it through the headphones.
| | 02:34 | In this case, we just have a line out running
through here, so you can hear what's going
| | 02:37 | on in this movie.
| | 02:38 | Also, if you're playing your guitar through
an accessory that's connected through the
| | 02:41 | headphone jack, you'll see an additional
setting here under Input Settings for adjusting the
| | 02:45 | Input Level, and you will want to move that
slider back and forth as you are playing your
| | 02:48 | guitar in order to adjust the levels.
| | 02:50 | But because I'm using an accessory that's
plugged into the dock connector, it has its
| | 02:55 | own Gain control.
| | 02:56 | You can see the Gain dial right here.
| | 02:57 | So I'm going to have Todd play his guitar
a little bit and the important thing here
| | 03:00 | is to play your guitar in the style you intend on
recording, so you can set the levels properly.
| | 03:04 | You'll see the light on the Jam
start flickering towards the red.
| | 03:07 | I want to make sure it's not too red or else
I'm going to be clipping or distorting my signal.
| | 03:12 | So as he plays, I'm going to adjust the Gain.
| | 03:13 | (music playing)
| | 03:25 | So right about there is probably good.
| | 03:30 | Now the other setting you'll
find here is the Noise Gate.
| | 03:32 | This is especially useful if you're using
an accessory that plugs into the headphone
| | 03:35 | jack which can tend to produce a
little bit more background hiss or static.
| | 03:39 | If you're hearing those sorts of noises, drag
the Noise Gate to the right until you don't
| | 03:43 | hear those noises anymore, but you should
still be able to hear your guitar when you strum it.
| | 03:48 | Once you can hear your guitar, you are
probably going to want to make sure it's in tune, so
| | 03:50 | you can open up the chromatic tuner in GarageBand
with that button and this works like any other guitar tuner.
| | 03:56 | You play one string at a time, you'll see
the note that you're trying to tune to appear
| | 03:59 | here on the middle and GarageBand will
tell you whether you're flat or sharp.
| | 04:02 | (music playing)
| | 04:02 | And you can make your adjustments accordingly.
| | 04:07 | (music playing)
| | 04:10 | Okay. It's pretty good.
| | 04:12 | We'll turn off the tuner.
| | 04:14 | So we can hear our guitar, it's in tune, now
we can start playing around some different sounds.
| | 04:19 | So if Todd will play a little bit of guitar, you
will hear drastically different sounds as
| | 04:22 | we pick different amps.
| | 04:23 | (music playing)
| | 04:40 | Again, there are nine different
amps that you can choose from.
| | 04:43 | Now the sound of your guitar tone is not
determined just by the amp itself and its settings, but
| | 04:47 | also through the stompbox effects that
are connected to that amp in the audio chain.
| | 04:51 | You can see your stompboxes by tapping this
button here in the upper right-hand corner.
| | 04:55 | That reveals these stompboxes or effects pedals
and they work very much like their real-world counterparts.
| | 05:00 | To turn them on and off,
you simply tap the button.
| | 05:03 | You don't want to step on your iPad with your
foot, just use your finger to tap the buttons
| | 05:06 | on and off.
| | 05:07 | So in this case, I have the
Squash Compressor and the Blue Echo.
| | 05:11 | So the Compressor is currently on, but if
Todd will play a little bit, I'll turn the
| | 05:14 | Echo on and off.
| | 05:15 | (music playing)
| | 05:17 | Play with some other settings here.
| | 05:18 | (music playing)
| | 05:26 | You can hear what it sounds
like with it on and with it off.
| | 05:29 | (music playing)
| | 05:30 | You can have up to four
stompboxes attached at one time.
| | 05:33 | If you want to add an additional stompbox,
just tap in one of the blank spaces that will
| | 05:37 | give you this menu where you can select from
any of the 10 stompboxes that are available,
| | 05:40 | and maybe you want to add a Phaser.
| | 05:44 | (music playing)
| | 05:57 | So you can see you can really drastically
alter your sound just by adding a couple of
| | 06:00 | stompboxes to your effects chain.
| | 06:03 | Now if you want to get rid of one of these,
whether it's the one you added yourself or
| | 06:05 | one of the default stompboxes, just simply
tap on it again, and then tap the No or Delete
| | 06:10 | symbol here on the right.
| | 06:11 | Let's go back to our Amp Settings.
| | 06:14 | Now if you are relatively new to creating
guitar sounds by adjusting amp settings or
| | 06:18 | playing around with stompboxes, you may have
a particular sound in mind that you want,
| | 06:22 | but not be quite sure how to get there.
| | 06:23 | What you can do is tap the name of the
current sound and this opens up a window where you
| | 06:27 | can see four different categories.
| | 06:29 | Each of these categories has eight different
pre-created effect sounds that you can select from.
| | 06:34 | So maybe I'm looking for something a little
bit heavier so I might go to Distorted, and
| | 06:38 | pick maybe the Punk Rock Amp.
| | 06:41 | (music playing)
| | 06:48 | Now you may be happy with that sound right
out of the box, but you can also use this
| | 06:51 | as sort of a jumping off point and just start
playing around with settings from there.
| | 06:54 | (music playing)
| | 07:03 | You might go into the stompbox
to see what's being used here.
| | 07:06 | I can see it's just a single Fuzz Machine
pedal in this case, which is pretty much driving
| | 07:11 | the whole effect I think in this case. With it
turned off, we don't have that fuzz anymore.
| | 07:14 | I can turn that back on.
| | 07:16 | (music playing)
| | 07:21 | And even once you set the amp settings and
the effects pedal settings, you can still
| | 07:25 | play around with the different amps.
| | 07:26 | It's going to stay in the Punk Rock category,
but if I switch to different amps, you will
| | 07:30 | hear drastically different sounds.
| | 07:31 | (music playing)
| | 07:45 | Now if you spend a lot of time crafting the
sound that you want, you'll most likely want
| | 07:48 | to save it, because each time you open a
project in GarageBand, the guitar amps will default
| | 07:52 | back to their original settings.
| | 07:54 | So to save a sound, tap the name of the
current sound and then here, tap Save.
| | 08:00 | This will give you an opportunity to name
your sound, I'll call this Custom Punk and you
| | 08:07 | can see this has now
created a Custom category here.
| | 08:10 | So at anytime now, no matter what project I
am in, if I have just another guitar selected
| | 08:14 | here that sounds like this.
| | 08:17 | (music playing)
| | 08:18 | If I decide I want to go back to my custom
setting, I just go back to Custom, pick it,
| | 08:24 | and here I'm back to the
sound that I programmed in.
| | 08:25 | (music playing)
| | 08:29 | So if you are a guitar player or even a bass
player, you have a world of classic and modern
| | 08:32 | sounding amps and effects to play with.
| | 08:34 | And in a lot of ways, this is better than
having real amps because you don't have to
| | 08:38 | worry about having the space to store them or
even the budget to own them, because everything
| | 08:41 | lives right here in your iPad.
| | 08:44 |
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| Recording with microphones| 00:00 | So far we have seen how to play GarageBand's
Touch instruments as well as how to connect
| | 00:04 | real guitars to your iPad to
play through GarageBand's amps.
| | 00:08 | Now if you're playing an instrument that
doesn't have its own connection port to connect to
| | 00:11 | an amp, maybe you are recording an acoustic
guitar, or a trumpet, or a violin, you can put
| | 00:16 | a mic on that instrument and then
connect that mic directly to your iPad.
| | 00:19 | Now as I touched on earlier, there is a
world of accessories out there for connecting
| | 00:22 | all types of devices to your iPad.
| | 00:24 | Again, check out the course in this series
called Inputs, Mics and MIDI for more information
| | 00:28 | about connecting devices to your iPad.
| | 00:30 | In terms of microphones, you'll find microphones
that have been designed specifically to connect
| | 00:35 | directly to the iPad. You can use standard
microphones that use the standard XLR cable.
| | 00:39 | In this case, I have a USB computer
microphone connected to my iPad via the Apple Camera
| | 00:44 | Connection Kit.
| | 00:45 | Now once the microphone is connected to the
iPad, there is no rule saying I couldn't open
| | 00:48 | say the Guitar Amp and start recording my
voice through one of the guitar amps to create
| | 00:52 | a super over-processed voice.
| | 00:55 | But if I'm looking to create a completely
dry unprocessed voice, I am going to want
| | 00:58 | to use the Audio Recorder.
| | 01:01 | The iPad automatically detects the input
you're going to be using for your recording.
| | 01:06 | Notice it says here Tap the Record button
above to start recording using an external
| | 01:10 | USB audio interface.
| | 01:11 | So it knows I have a microphone
connected to the dock connector right now.
| | 01:15 | Now if I unplug that for just a minute, it
immediately switches over to using the iPad's
| | 01:19 | internal microphone.
| | 01:21 | So you could record with the built-in mic on
the iPad though I really wouldn't recommend
| | 01:24 | it because it's not that great for
capturing things like vocals or music.
| | 01:27 | So I am going to go back
and plug this back in.
| | 01:32 | Like working with the guitar amp, you can go
to Input Settings here and choose to turn
| | 01:35 | the Monitor on if you want to listen to what
you are doing, but I only recommend doing
| | 01:39 | that if you have headphones plugged in.
Otherwise you're going to be monitoring your sounds
| | 01:42 | through the iPad's built-in speaker which
might go right back into your microphone and
| | 01:45 | cause some feedback.
| | 01:47 | So I recommend leaving that off if
you don't have headphones plugged in.
| | 01:50 | Of course if you're going to be recording
vocals over music you already recorded,
| | 01:53 | then you are definitely going to want to have
the Monitor turned on and headphones plugged in.
| | 01:57 | Depending on the device you're using, you
may see a Channel selector here, so you can
| | 02:00 | choose to record either the Left
Channel, the Right Channel or in Stereo.
| | 02:03 | I am going to leave my Left Channel selected.
| | 02:06 | Also depending on the device you're using,
you may see this Input Level slider here.
| | 02:10 | You will want to use this to set the level
of the audio that's going into your iPad.
| | 02:14 | So for instance, if I were going to be speaking,
maybe I am going to be doing a podcast recording,
| | 02:18 | I want to hold the mic about where I am going
to be speaking at and then I want to continue
| | 02:22 | to talk as I move this slider to
increase or decrease the amount of input.
| | 02:26 | I want to try to keep it away from
hitting the red like you're seeing there.
| | 02:29 | So I'm going to keep it right here with my
speaking voice and I'm just going to adjust
| | 02:33 | that a little bit.
| | 02:34 | Now we do have the option of using the Automatic
setting to have it automatically set the level
| | 02:38 | for us, but I don't usually trust that
as much as setting the level myself.
| | 02:41 | So it looks about right.
| | 02:44 | Now you can also just monitor the VU meter
here, this enormous meter here on my screen,
| | 02:49 | and again, I will just pick the mic here,
you just want to make sure that you're not
| | 02:52 | quite hitting the red as you're talking.
| | 02:54 | So you either want to adjust your distance
from the mic, or your input level, or possibly both.
| | 02:59 | And that's pretty much all the setup you need.
| | 03:01 | Now if you are recording straight vocals and
not singing to a beat, you might want to come
| | 03:05 | into Settings and make sure Metronome is
turned off, so you don't hear that constant beat
| | 03:09 | as you're speaking.
| | 03:09 | So I'm going to keep that off.
| | 03:12 | And now I can just tap
Record to start my recording.
| | 03:16 | (male speaking)
| | 03:27 | And when you are done, just tap Stop and now
you can see that I've recorded a region, let
| | 03:31 | me switch over to the Track View, and
there is the recording I just made.
| | 03:35 | Let's go back to the Recorder.
| | 03:37 | You'll also notice when I stop recording, I
now see these different effects here that
| | 03:41 | I can apply to my recording.
| | 03:43 | Now in order to listen to this I am going to
have to unplug my microphone because this
| | 03:46 | particular microphone has a headphone jack in
the back, and you have to monitor your output
| | 03:50 | through that microphone.
| | 03:51 | So I'm just going to unplug that, since we
have a jack plugged into our headphone jack here already.
| | 03:55 | So let's give this a lesson.
| | 03:57 | (audio playing)
| | 04:03 | So that's the dry setting, meaning this is
completely unprocessed, there are no effects
| | 04:07 | on this particular recording.
| | 04:08 | But notice we have these
different effects we can choose from.
| | 04:10 | Now some of these are kind of cartoony, we
have the Chipmunk, the Robot and the Monster,
| | 04:15 | just roll this back and you
can hear what those sound like.
| | 04:17 | (audio playing)
| | 04:26 | Now depending on the project you're working on,
you may never use effects like that, but
| | 04:30 | you might find effects like Small Room and
Large Room useful to create a different sense
| | 04:33 | of size in your recording.
| | 04:35 | For instance I'll choose
Small Room, roll that back.
| | 04:39 | (audio playing)
| | 04:41 | Try Large Room.
| | 04:43 | (audio playing)
| | 04:47 | So both of those add a little bit more reverb to
your sound to give it a sort of larger quality.
| | 04:51 | You might have also noticed that each of these
effects have their own sliders to adjust their settings.
| | 04:56 | For Chipmunk, we have the Compressor and Pitch,
for Robot, Phaser and Chorus, Small Room,
| | 05:02 | Compressor and Original Volume, and so on.
| | 05:05 | So you can really play around with these
effects a lot until you are recording sounds exactly
| | 05:08 | the way you want it to sound.
| | 05:10 | Now once you've made one recording, you can
continue recording on this track or even re-record
| | 05:14 | on it with the effects already applied.
| | 05:16 | So if I wanted to make a recording with the
Chipmunk voice going live into my iPad, I
| | 05:20 | could to do that, but I generally recommend
against doing that because some of these effects
| | 05:24 | are pretty processor-intensive, especially
Chipmunk and Robot and Monster, and they may
| | 05:28 | cause a little bit of latency.
| | 05:30 | So my recommendation is to record everything
without any effects applied, then apply the
| | 05:34 | effects afterwards.
| | 05:36 | You might have also noticed that these
effects are nondestructive, meaning when I apply an
| | 05:39 | effect, it doesn't permanently
alter or damage my recording.
| | 05:42 | I can always go back to the dry
version of it and start from there again.
| | 05:46 | So now that you know how to record with a
microphone, that pretty much completes the picture.
| | 05:49 | We can now record pretty much anything
whether we're recording something out of the air,
| | 05:53 | a real guitar or using
GarageBand's Virtual Instruments.
| | 05:55 | And again, do be sure to check out the course
in this series called Inputs, Mics, and MIDI
| | 05:59 | for a lot more information on how to
connect all types of devices to your iPad.
| | 06:04 |
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5. Recording, Editing, and MixingCreating and building a song| 00:00 | Now that we've learned how to play the various
instruments available in GarageBand, in this
| | 00:04 | chapter we're going to take a look
at the recording and mixing process.
| | 00:07 | So we're going to build a song from scratch,
add a bunch of tracks to it and mix it all in GarageBand.
| | 00:12 | Let's start by creating a new project by
tapping My Songs, here I'll tap the plus button and
| | 00:17 | choose New Song.
| | 00:19 | I'll just select the Keyboard here.
| | 00:20 | It doesn't really matter which instrument
you pick right off the bat, we just need to
| | 00:23 | select an instrument to get into the song,
so we can get to the song settings.
| | 00:27 | And as I previously mentioned, you want to
make sure you set your tempo, your key and
| | 00:31 | your time signature right off the bat here.
| | 00:33 | So my Tempo is currently 110.
| | 00:35 | Now this is a case again where you might want
to tap the Play button just to listen to the
| | 00:39 | Metronome to see if it matches the
beat of the song you have in mind.
| | 00:43 | You might also want to sort of hum along or
play a couple of notes to see if it matches
| | 00:46 | the Tempo you have in your head.
| | 00:49 | If it doesn't, go back to Song Settings, tap
the Tempo and here again you can either tap
| | 00:54 | the Tempo up or down, you can also slide up
and down to make larger adjustments and of
| | 01:00 | course, you can also just
tap along to set the tempo.
| | 01:03 | I think mine will be at 115,
so I'll leave it there.
| | 01:08 | Let's go back to Settings.
| | 01:09 | Next, we want to make sure to set the Key
and again, this is especially important if
| | 01:13 | you're going to be working with Apple Loops
or Smart Instruments, especially with Apple
| | 01:16 | Loops because they conform to the key that
you select and if you select the wrong key,
| | 01:20 | your Apple Loops are going
to sound way out of tune.
| | 01:23 | So in this case, this song will be in G major.
| | 01:26 | Lastly, we have the Time Signature
and this song will be standard 4/4.
| | 01:33 | Now another thing to consider right at the
start is the structure of your song, by which
| | 01:36 | I mean trying to figure out which parts of
your song are the verses, the chorus, the
| | 01:40 | middle eight, or whether your song even follows
a structure like that, because again if you
| | 01:43 | look at the top of the GarageBand interface,
we only have eight bars to work with here by default.
| | 01:48 | If I move my playhead right to bar 8, tap
Play, when it reaches the end, you can see
| | 01:54 | it goes right back to the
beginning of the song.
| | 01:56 | So it loops back.
| | 01:57 | But the idea here is to make it easier for
you to work with one section of your song
| | 02:01 | at a time.
| | 02:01 | So you add more sections by tapping the plus
button here which displays all the sections
| | 02:05 | of your song.
| | 02:05 | I only have Section A right now
and it shows it's having 8 bars.
| | 02:09 | So you don't need to know the entire structure
or the order of everything right off the bat,
| | 02:13 | but it does make it easier to work with your
song later if you can define as much of it as possible.
| | 02:17 | So for example I'm going to start my song
with a one major intro before leading into
| | 02:20 | the first verse.
| | 02:21 | So I'm going to change
Section A to just 1 bar.
| | 02:26 | Then I'll tap Add to create the next section,
Section B, and I'll leave it at 8 bars.
| | 02:31 | And while I am at it, I'll tap Add one more
time to create Section C which will be my
| | 02:35 | chorus and it will also be 8 bars.
| | 02:37 | So you might have noticed as I was adding
sections, my timeline was getting longer and
| | 02:41 | I have 17 measures here in the timeline.
| | 02:43 | Now it's kind of difficult to see
so I'm going to tap All Sections.
| | 02:47 | You should see that each one of
these sections is now labeled.
| | 02:50 | I am going to move my
playhead out of the way here.
| | 02:53 | You should see measure 1 has an A, measure
2 has a B, and at measure 10 we have C.
| | 02:58 | So right now, I'm looking at
all of the sections of my song.
| | 03:01 | If you want to only work with one section at
a time, you can go back to the song sections
| | 03:04 | and maybe I just want to work with the Chorus
Section C, I'll select that and you can see
| | 03:09 | now my timeline expands just to show
the measures in that particular section.
| | 03:13 | Now if you prefer to work with a little less
structure, you don't have to work with these
| | 03:16 | sections at all, you can just go back to the
Add Sections button and here I'll tap the
| | 03:20 | blue arrow for Section C for example and
I'm going to change this to Automatic.
| | 03:26 | So at this point, the playhead will not loop
back to the beginning of the section anytime
| | 03:29 | and I can just continue to record.
| | 03:31 | This might be particularly useful if you're
recording a live performance where you don't
| | 03:34 | know what the structure is going to be, you
can just let it continue to record until the
| | 03:38 | end of the song.
| | 03:38 | But again, I do want to have only 8 measures
in this particular section, so I am going
| | 03:42 | to go back and change
Section C back to 8 measures.
| | 03:51 | So the whole idea behind structuring your
song is it makes it easier to rearrange it later.
| | 03:55 | If I go back into song sections and choose
Edit, you can find I can do things like move
| | 04:00 | sections around.
| | 04:00 | So if I decide maybe I want the chorus to
come before the verse later on, I can just
| | 04:04 | move Section C up.
| | 04:05 | If I change my mind, I can move it back.
| | 04:08 | And anything, that's recorded in those sections,
will move along with those sections when I move them.
| | 04:11 | You will notice we also
have a Duplicate button.
| | 04:14 | So if for example I've already recorded the
verse and I just want to put a copy of it
| | 04:17 | after the first chorus, I can come in here,
select Section B which is my verse in this
| | 04:22 | case, tap Duplicate and you
can see now I have a Section D.
| | 04:26 | So anything that was in Section B will be copied
into Section D and I've now got a duplicate verse.
| | 04:31 | So if for example you are in a hurry to get
a demo out, you might just record one verse
| | 04:35 | and one chorus and then just copy and paste
them into place to make the entire song.
| | 04:38 | We'll talk more about doing that sort of
thing a little bit later, but for now that's how
| | 04:42 | you set up a song in GarageBand.
| | 04:43 | Next, we are going to take a
look at adding tracks to our song.
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| Working with Apple loops| 00:00 | Now that we've set up our song,
let's start adding some tracks to it.
| | 00:04 | My personal preference is to start
with the drums or percussion in a song.
| | 00:07 | Now as we know, there are number of
different ways we can approach this.
| | 00:09 | I could open up the Drums instrument and
start playing out a pattern, I could open up the
| | 00:13 | Smart Drums and start programming a pattern,
but in this case I want to introduce some Apple Loops.
| | 00:17 | Now to get to the Apple Loops I am
going to have to switch to the Track View.
| | 00:20 | And as you can see that pops up the Apple
Loops button here in the interface, I'll tap that.
| | 00:26 | Apple Loops are great to use if you're in a
hurry or you just can't find the sound or
| | 00:30 | instrument you're looking for. You can browse
through the available loops, find a pattern
| | 00:33 | you like, drag it into your song and just
have it loop over and over or as long as you
| | 00:37 | like to fill out your song.
| | 00:38 | So you can see here I can browse through 270
different loops, but that might not be the
| | 00:43 | best way to find the loop you're looking for.
| | 00:46 | So we can narrow them down
using these keywords here.
| | 00:48 | I can start by may be narrowing it down to
an instrument, for example if I wanted to
| | 00:52 | search for a guitar part, I could tap Guitars,
now I am looking at 46 different items.
| | 00:57 | I can browse through here.
| | 00:58 | If I find a title that looks intriguing,
I can tap it to give it a listen.
| | 01:02 | (music playing)
| | 01:06 | Continue browsing through.
| | 01:07 | (music playing)
| | 01:09 | You can see an indication of
how many bars each loop is.
| | 01:15 | (music playing)
| | 01:18 | Just tap a loop to stop listening to it.
| | 01:19 | If I am looking for some other type of instrument
I can tap instruments again. Maybe I just
| | 01:23 | want to find some variation on the tambourine.
Here I can listen to several Tambourine samples.
| | 01:28 | (music playing)
| | 01:36 | You can also use the Genre or the
Descriptors keywords to narrow down your search.
| | 01:40 | So again, maybe I'll just go back to say the
Bass and I want to find a bass that fits the
| | 01:45 | description of Jazz.
| | 01:47 | That narrows it down to
three that I can sample from.
| | 01:49 | (music playing)
| | 01:59 | If I want to clear that keyword I can simply
come back and uncheck that, so I have full
| | 02:02 | access to all the samples again. I can also
go to Descriptors, maybe I am looking for
| | 02:07 | something Grooving.
| | 02:07 | Now that still only gives me 13 out of
the 14 loops that are available for bass.
| | 02:13 | I can further narrow it down by adding another
Descriptor, maybe I want Grooving and Intense.
| | 02:18 | That narrows it down to three.
| | 02:20 | (music playing)
| | 02:30 | So you can see we have a wide variety
of different loops available here.
| | 02:33 | Now to get back to everything I just tap Reset Keywords
and I can see I am back to my 270 different loops.
| | 02:39 | So let's find some drums to
start the song out with.
| | 02:41 | And go back to Instrument, I'll select All
Drums, and again we can just sort of browse
| | 02:46 | through and if we see anything that looks
interesting to us we can just tap to sample.
| | 02:51 | (music playing)
| | 03:01 | I kind of like that Funked Out Drumset 02.
| | 03:03 | Now I want to use that
for the verse of my song.
| | 03:06 | Now because I set up my song previously with
several sections, I'm currently looking at
| | 03:10 | the C Section of my song, Section C.
| | 03:14 | I want to make sure I drag this into my verse.
| | 03:15 | I am just going to make sure I am looking
at all sections, so again we have A, B, and
| | 03:19 | C as well as D set up here.
| | 03:22 | So I'll go back to Loops now that I
am looking at the entire timeline.
| | 03:24 | I'll find that loop I was looking at,
which I believe was Funked Out Drumset 02.
| | 03:29 | (music playing)
| | 03:31 | And again, I want to use that for my verse
which starts at measure 2 in this song, so
| | 03:35 | I am going to grab that, drag it in my song.
| | 03:37 | You can see that GarageBand automatically
creates a new track for me. I am just going
| | 03:40 | to line that up to measure 2.
| | 03:42 | Now even though this is only a two bar loop
you can see that GarageBand has repeated it
| | 03:46 | or looped it all the way until the end of
my song because I'm looking at the entire song.
| | 03:50 | But in this case I only want the drums to last
for the verse, or at least this particular loop.
| | 03:55 | So I am going to select the region, you can
see that puts a highlight around it and now
| | 03:59 | I can drag the right side in to the end of
measure 9, which is the end of the verse and
| | 04:05 | that's all I want do with this
loop for this particular example.
| | 04:07 | I'll just take the playhead back so
you can hear what this sounds like.
| | 04:11 | You hear the metronome, then
it comes it on measure 2.
| | 04:16 | (music playing)
| | 04:17 | So there is one loop and that comes back to
the beginning. Here is the next one, and one more.
| | 04:31 | And it just ends there.
| | 04:32 | So I am pretty satisfied with that loop for
the verse part of my song. Although I do think
| | 04:37 | it starts a little bit abruptly.
| | 04:38 | I think what I would like is to have some
sort of drum fill or intro into that part,
| | 04:42 | which is why I have that first
measure of the song set aside.
| | 04:45 | So let's go back and listen to Loops again.
| | 04:49 | And once you know there's something here
called a Funked Out Fill let's listen to that.
| | 04:53 | (music playing)
| | 04:55 | That's only 1 bar.
| | 05:00 | So I kind of like those two snare hits right
at the end of that loop, that rapid one two.
| | 05:06 | (music playing)
| | 05:09 | So let's start by grabbing that loop,
dragging it into measure 1 on the same track,
| | 05:15 | and let me just expand that by pinching
out a bit, and I'll just take my playhead
| | 05:21 | back to the beginning, let's listen once.
| | 05:23 | (music playing)
| | 05:27 | So you can see the waveform of those
two hits that I want to keep there.
| | 05:29 | So I want to get rid of everything else.
| | 05:31 | So to trim that out of there I am going to
select the region, then I am going to hold
| | 05:34 | down on the left-handle and you can see that
it expands out the loop to fill out my entire
| | 05:41 | screen, now I can just drag that trim handle
to the left, so I only see those last two
| | 05:45 | hits, right about there.
| | 05:51 | And now I have this.
| | 05:52 | (music playing)
| | 05:57 | So if you find a loop where you only like
maybe the beginning or the end of that loop,
| | 06:01 | you can always trim out the parts you don't
want by first dragging the region into your
| | 06:04 | project and then just
trimming out those parts.
| | 06:05 | All right, so I've got this nice little intro,
I've got the verse, now I just need to find
| | 06:10 | a drum part for the chorus.
| | 06:11 | Let's go back to Loops. So I am going to try
to keep this in the same Funked Out family,
| | 06:18 | just keep listening to a couple more of these.
| | 06:20 | (music playing)
| | 06:24 | Okay, so Drumset 08 has a louder, more open
sound. I think I am going to use that for the chorus.
| | 06:29 | So again I just select it and I'll just drag
that into the same track right here at measure
| | 06:35 | 10, there it is and let's
just listen to that transition.
| | 06:39 | (music playing)
| | 06:45 | Okay, so I think that will be
pretty good for my chorus.
| | 06:48 | Now I want to fill this out may be just a
little but more, so maybe I'll add some tambourine
| | 06:51 | in this case.
| | 06:52 | I'm going to switch my instrument, select
Tambourine and we'll listen to a few these.
| | 06:59 | (music playing)
| | 07:02 | Actually Tambourine 1 sounds pretty good to
me, so I'm going to drag this onto its own
| | 07:06 | track just by dragging it out, right there
so it's going to start the same time as the
| | 07:12 | chorus, let's listen.
| | 07:14 | (music playing)
| | 07:20 | It's actually pretty good but you know maybe
I want to sort of use the tambourine to
| | 07:23 | lead into the chorus, so I am just going to
select that region, maybe I'll have it start at
| | 07:28 | measure 9 to lead-in from the tail
end of the verse into the chorus.
| | 07:34 | (music playing)
| | 07:39 | Okay, I am pretty happy with that.
| | 07:41 | Now because I drag that region, if I go to
the tail end of the song now, you can see
| | 07:44 | I've lost the measure here at the end of the
tambourine, but I can easily just drag that
| | 07:48 | out and loop out one more measure.
| | 07:50 | So if I pinch in, you can see now I have two
full tracks of loops and now I've a really
| | 07:54 | good foundation for the start of my song.
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| Recording and editing MIDI tracks| 00:00 | Now that we have some drums and
percussion in our song, let's add some keyboard.
| | 00:04 | I already have the keyboard track that I previously
created so I'll just double tap to bring that up.
| | 00:09 | And the beauty of playing the GarageBand keyboard
versus a real acoustic piano with the microphone
| | 00:13 | on it is you are not locked into your performance
with the GarageBand keyboard as you would be
| | 00:17 | with a real piano.
| | 00:18 | I can just play my part and then later if
I decide I want a different instrument to
| | 00:21 | play those parts, I can do that.
| | 00:23 | I can fix bad timing issues,
I can change complete notes.
| | 00:26 | Let's take a look at how this works.
| | 00:27 | I am going to roll back to the beginning and
with the Grand Piano I am just going to play
| | 00:32 | the verse of the song.
| | 00:34 | So I'll tap Record.
| | 00:39 | (music playing)
| | 00:58 | All right, so that's one
pass through the performance.
| | 01:00 | Now obviously I could go back and do a little
bit better than that, but just to show you
| | 01:04 | the amount of power you have over what you've
played let's leave it that way, we are going
| | 01:07 | to go back in the Track View.
| | 01:11 | So here you can see the
MIDI region I just created.
| | 01:13 | Now there were a couple of flubs in there.
| | 01:14 | I think the first thing I want to do is I
want to change the sound of this keyboard.
| | 01:18 | The Grand Piano is okay, but let's
try a different instrument for this.
| | 01:21 | Let's go with the Electric Piano
and let's listen to that once.
| | 01:29 | (music playing)
| | 01:33 | So the exact same performance, but now
played through a different instrument.
| | 01:39 | (music playing)
| | 01:46 | So obviously not the cleanest ending there,
but let's see what we can do about that.
| | 01:49 | Let's go back to Track View.
| | 01:52 | So now we want to edit this region.
| | 01:54 | So I am going to select it, tap it
to bring up the menu and tap Edit.
| | 02:01 | So what I am seeing now are the MIDI
regions that I have just written.
| | 02:04 | These are all the notes that I have played
and they correspond to the notes that you
| | 02:06 | see over here on the left.
| | 02:07 | I can actually to play that keyboard so I
can hear what the notes are, but each one
| | 02:11 | of these dashes that you see on the screen
represent the notes that I have played, you
| | 02:14 | can look at the notes, you can tap them,
listen to them, you can see the corresponding key
| | 02:20 | lights up there on the left-hand side.
| | 02:22 | You can look at their horizontal position
to see if I was ahead of the beat or behind the beat.
| | 02:26 | You can see the second selection of notes
here are syncopated, so they appear just a
| | 02:30 | little bit before measure three starts and
that's pretty good here on measure four, everything
| | 02:33 | lined up pretty well.
| | 02:34 | Just move that back into place.
| | 02:36 | Let's play this again and now look at
the notes as the playhead goes by them.
| | 02:41 | (music playing)
| | 02:57 | Okay, so I immediately see two problems here.
| | 03:00 | This note here where I played a G, should
have been an F, that's very easy to fix, I
| | 03:05 | just select it, drag it down to half
step for whole step and now it's an F.
| | 03:10 | I can hear what that sounds like.
| | 03:12 | (music playing)
| | 03:19 | So it's that easy to fix a flubbed note.
| | 03:21 | Now again, I have some
problems here at the very end.
| | 03:26 | This is how it should have sounded.
| | 03:29 | (music playing)
| | 03:33 | Now the problem here at the end is this note
which is currently an F, should have been
| | 03:37 | an E and I just have this little
dangling note here that I accidentally tapped.
| | 03:42 | So notice when you tap the note, you can just
delete it, so I am just going to get rid of that.
| | 03:46 | In fact I want to get rid of both those notes.
| | 03:48 | Now I could just do them at a time, but I am
just going to hold down and now I can drag
| | 03:52 | a marquee around the notes I want to select.
| | 03:55 | Now I can tap one of them, tap
Delete and get rid of them both.
| | 03:59 | So now I am actually missing a note here.
| | 04:01 | The great thing here is I can write
in the notes that I didn't play.
| | 04:04 | I am going to tap the pencil icon here in
the upper left-hand corner and drag it right.
| | 04:09 | Now when I tap in the screen,
I'll actually be drawing notes.
| | 04:11 | (music playing)
| | 04:13 | So I have just placed a
note down, it's on the E.
| | 04:16 | Now I can position it where I want, drag it
over inline there and I'll extend the end
| | 04:21 | out to line up with the other
notes there. Let's hear how that sounds.
| | 04:26 | I am going to turn the pencil off.
| | 04:29 | (music playing)
| | 04:32 | That's pretty much
exactly what it wanted to do.
| | 04:36 | Now you might have seen some other
things pop up when I tap these notes.
| | 04:40 | In addition to cut and copy, we also have
Velocity, maybe you struck a note but you didn't
| | 04:44 | strike it as hard as you wanted and as
not as prominent in the mix as you want.
| | 04:48 | If you tap Velocity, you get a little slider
bar here, so you can increase or decrease
| | 04:52 | the velocity of the note.
| | 04:54 | So if I wanted this to be a particularly
prominent note, I could increase the Velocity all the
| | 04:58 | way to the right.
| | 05:00 | So if we listen to that--
| | 05:01 | (music playing)
| | 05:05 | Make that note just a little bit louder.
| | 05:07 | So I have shown you a couple ways here to
repair a flubbed performance, but you can also
| | 05:12 | use the editor for creative choices.
| | 05:14 | For example, maybe this A here at the top,
maybe I want to move that down an octave,
| | 05:18 | so I can simply grab it, drag it
down to the low A, right there.
| | 05:25 | And of course I can go
back and listen to that.
| | 05:29 | (music playing)
| | 05:32 | So maybe for the second repetition of that I
just like having that A a little bit lower.
| | 05:37 | Now the one other problem I hear with
this is my timing is not really that great.
| | 05:41 | Sometimes I am a little ahead of the beat
for my taste, sometimes I am a little behind.
| | 05:44 | What we can do is quantize the performance
and that means to time shift our performance
| | 05:49 | so it matches up more to the beat.
| | 05:50 | I am going to tap Done to close out the
editor and here with the Keyboard track selected,
| | 05:55 | I am going to go to the Mixer and you see
we have a Quantization selection here.
| | 06:01 | Here I can choose whether I want to line up
the notes to quarter notes, eighth notes,
| | 06:04 | 16th notes, and so on.
| | 06:06 | Now it is in point to know which
one of these to line them up to.
| | 06:09 | Because I am playing kind of a syncopated
rhythm here, I probably don't want to choose
| | 06:12 | the quarter note.
| | 06:14 | Let's listen once and
see what that sounds like.
| | 06:17 | (music playing)
| | 06:21 | It's very straight now.
| | 06:24 | (music playing)
| | 06:30 | So everything is following exactly on the
quarter note beat. That's kind of losing the
| | 06:32 | groove that I was going for,
| | 06:34 | so instead, let me just undo that.
| | 06:35 | You can actually see the notes shift there.
| | 06:38 | Let me go back and this time
I'll quantize to the eighth note.
| | 06:44 | And let's listen to that.
| | 06:47 | (music playing)
| | 07:05 | So that's the groove that I was going for.
| | 07:07 | What I have done here is I have taken a
pretty mediocre performance and made this sound a
| | 07:10 | lot better, and I only had to
actually perform it once.
| | 07:13 | So I am pretty happy with
the verse the way it is now.
| | 07:15 | So rather than having to play that again and
having to reedit a whole another performance,
| | 07:20 | I am just going to select it, choose to copy
it, now I am going to move my playhead to
| | 07:26 | the beginning of section D
which is the next verse.
| | 07:29 | So now just double tap, choose Paste,
and now I have a copy of that region.
| | 07:34 | Now actually I just noticed that my playhead
was not quite on measure 18 there. Not a big
| | 07:39 | deal, I'll just select the region, drag it
into play and all I have to do is fill in
| | 07:44 | the chorus, but you can hear
what this sounds like now.
| | 07:47 | (music playing)
| | 07:49 | So I get through the chorus part and
my verse part comes right back in.
| | 07:54 | And actually, I just noticed that I want the
first drum part to be there as well, so let's
| | 08:00 | move that back.
| | 08:01 | We'll end the chorus there, we'll copy that
drum performance, make sure I get my playhead
| | 08:09 | right on measure 18 there, which I didn't
quite take that back for enough, let's go there.
| | 08:14 | I'll paste it in.
| | 08:16 | So it's not quite at the end here because
that part was a little bit shorter, so let's
| | 08:19 | just drag that all the way to the end.
| | 08:20 | In fact we'll do the same thing for the pasted
in keyboard parts to make sure we have that all.
| | 08:26 | And here we go.
| | 08:27 | (music playing)
| | 08:47 | So now I have built out a significant portion
of my song using only one keyboard performance.
| | 08:51 | I just played it once, and not very well at
that, but then I fixed it in the editor, then
| | 08:55 | I copied it, pasted it and now
I have two complete verses.
| | 08:58 | So that's really the beauty of
working with the keyboard in GarageBand.
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| Recording real instruments| 00:00 | At this point, we have added some drums, some
percussion and a keyboard part to our song.
| | 00:04 | I actually added a chorus part to the keyboard
to complete it before starting to record this movie.
| | 00:09 | I have asked to Todd to join me again, so
he can play some guitar for the next track
| | 00:12 | while I continue to operate the iPad.
| | 00:15 | So we are going to create a guitar
track by tapping the plus button.
| | 00:19 | We'll select the Guitar Amp and I am going
to go to the Input Setting here, make sure
| | 00:24 | the Monitor is On so we
can hear what's going on.
| | 00:28 | Now we are running the guitar through the
Apogee JAM that we saw in an earlier movie
| | 00:31 | that's going right into the
doc connector of the iPad.
| | 00:33 | I think we are already tuned up, we have prepared by
tuning before we started recording this movie.
| | 00:38 | And we have actually already come up with a
guitar sound that I have saved here under
| | 00:41 | Custom, properly called Todd 1.
| | 00:45 | Again if you need a review on how I did all
these different things go back and watch the
| | 00:48 | movie on playing a guitar through the iPad,
but there is our guitar if you want to strum
| | 00:51 | a little bit.
| | 00:52 | Make sure we have it.
| | 00:53 | (music playing)
| | 00:55 | Volume's up.
| | 00:57 | (music playing)
| | 00:59 | Okay, let's go back and look at the Track
View just to make sure where we need to be here.
| | 01:04 | So you can see we now have a new guitar track here,
the playhead is at the beginning of the song.
| | 01:08 | We are pretty much ready to go.
| | 01:09 | Now for this particular exercise, I am going
to have Todd play the verse and the chorus
| | 01:13 | as two separate parts, so we can first make
sure we are happy with the verse and then
| | 01:17 | move onto the chorus.
| | 01:18 | Now in order to play the guitar so that we
can hear, I am going to switch back to the
| | 01:21 | Instrument View, I am going to check under my
Settings here, make sure that the Metronome
| | 01:26 | is on, so we can keep to the beat, make sure
Count-In is on so we have enough time to get
| | 01:30 | in and get ready to record.
| | 01:32 | Turn that off and I think we
are pretty much ready to go.
| | 01:34 | Todd Howard: Let's do it.
| | 01:35 | All right, so our playhead is at the beginning,
so when I tap Record, you will hear four beats
| | 01:38 | and then we are going to be right in.
| | 01:40 | (music playing)
| | 02:04 | Yeah that leads us into the chorus.
Let me just go ahead and stop that.
| | 02:06 | How do you feel about that one?
| | 02:07 | Todd Howard: A little so-so at the beginning.
| | 02:09 | Little so-so, okay.
| | 02:10 | Now if we want to just rerecord the whole
thing and just forget that ever happened the
| | 02:13 | easiest thing to do here is just to tap Undo.
| | 02:16 | That removes the recorded track and
we are ready to start fresh again.
| | 02:19 | Okay, you ready?
Todd Howard: Sure.
| | 02:19 | All right, here we go.
| | 02:25 | (music playing)
| | 02:47 | Thought that one was pretty good.
| | 02:48 | Todd Howard: Felt a little better.
| | 02:49 | All right, excellent! Take a look
the Track View to see how that looks.
| | 02:52 | Okay, so you can see the waveform
for the region we just created.
| | 02:56 | So we are pretty happy with the
verse so let's move onto the chorus.
| | 02:59 | Now you will notice that this region actually
does overlap into the chorus area, the chorus
| | 03:03 | starts here at measure 10--oops! I tapped that by
accident--the chorus starts here at major
| | 03:07 | 10, let me just move the playhead
over there, stop the playback.
| | 03:12 | So if I put the playhead there, you
can see we sort of overlap there.
| | 03:15 | I am going to have him start recording the
chorus right at the beginning of measure 10.
| | 03:18 | So I am going to keep the playhead right there
and again making sure that we have Count-In
| | 03:23 | turned on, that will roll the playhead back
one measure so he has time to get ready play
| | 03:27 | and then the recording will start as soon
as the playhead reaches measure 10 here and
| | 03:32 | it will cut off what he
originally put in the first region.
| | 03:35 | So are we ready to do that?
| | 03:36 | Todd Howard: Sure!
| | 03:36 | All right, let me switch back, playhead is
still at measure 10, got our guitar sound
| | 03:42 | and here we go.
| | 03:44 | (music playing)
| | 04:06 | Thought that was pretty good.
| | 04:07 | Okay, I think we are actually okay with that
performance. Let's just take a look. So you
| | 04:12 | can see here is the new region we recorded
and let me juts move that playhead out of the way.
| | 04:17 | So you can see we now have two separate regions,
one for the verse and one for the chorus and
| | 04:20 | they should blend seamlessly into each other.
| | 04:22 | This is sometimes called a punch-in, meaning
we have placed our playhead where we wanted
| | 04:26 | the recording to start over the original recording,
and as soon as it reached that point it started
| | 04:30 | re-recording over that point and
now we have two separate parts.
| | 04:33 | Let's make sure we listen to that
though to make sure the punch-in is clean.
| | 04:36 | (music playing)
| | 04:48 | Sounds pretty clean to me.
| | 04:50 | All right, so now we have
one verse and one chorus.
| | 04:53 | So now we can do what we did with the keyboard
part and instead of the re-recording another
| | 04:56 | verse on the second verse, I can just copy
the first verse into the second verse section.
| | 05:01 | Now I do need to do a little bit of clean
up here because we do have that one bar of
| | 05:04 | intro before the first verse actually starts.
| | 05:07 | So let me show you a cool
little technique here.
| | 05:09 | I am just going to drag the playhead over to
measure 2 and that's where the first verse
| | 05:14 | actually starts.
| | 05:15 | So what I am going to do here is tap on the
region, and here I am going to choose Split.
| | 05:19 | Notice that gives me this icon here with the
little scissors on it and in order to split
| | 05:23 | it here I just need to drag those scissors
down across the region and now if I tap to
| | 05:28 | deselect, I now have a separate region there.
So if I select that, you can see it's just
| | 05:32 | a region there by itself.
| | 05:34 | I don't really need it, so I'll
select it again and tap Delete.
| | 05:38 | So now I have a clean eight bar verse right
here that I can select, copy, then I'll just
| | 05:44 | move the playhead to measure 18 where the
second verse starts and just double tap here
| | 05:49 | and tap Paste.
| | 05:51 | And you can see it just went over the
final part of the chorus there as well.
| | 05:55 | Let's give that a listen.
| | 05:56 | (music playing)
| | 06:14 | Okay, and just like that, we now have two
verses with a chorus in between, and again,
| | 06:18 | we only had to perform and record one verse
and one chorus and with a little bit of copying
| | 06:22 | and pasting, we now have a single guitar track
that sounds like one continuous performance.
| | 06:26 | So I think we are done with that track for
now. Next, we'll continue adding to our song
| | 06:29 | by adding some more tracks.
| | 06:32 |
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| Recording multiple tracks with Jam Session| 00:00 | Now I'd like to take a look at what I think
is one of the coolest features of GarageBand
| | 00:04 | and it's called Jam Session.
| | 00:05 | It allows you to connect up to four different
iOS devices so everybody can play in one session
| | 00:10 | and you can even record all to one song.
| | 00:12 | Now this does require either a
wi-fi or a Bluetooth connection.
| | 00:15 | Wi-fi is going to be preferable because you'll
get better speeds and communication between
| | 00:18 | the devices, but if a wi-fi network is
unavailable, you can switch to Bluetooth.
| | 00:23 | So for this particular movie, we're going to
continue working on the song we have been
| | 00:26 | working on throughout this chapter and we're
going to add two more tracks, but we are going
| | 00:30 | to do it simultaneously through Jam Session.
| | 00:32 | I'm going to be playing my iPad
and Todd will be playing his.
| | 00:36 | So to kick things off, I'm going to tap the
Jam Session button and I'm going to create a Session.
| | 00:41 | So now my iPad is broadcasting information
out over the wi-fi network saying that a Jam
| | 00:45 | Session is available and other iPads
can find that and then join the session.
| | 00:49 | So before I have Todd join the session,
let's take a look at some of these controls.
| | 00:52 | We have the Bandleader Control and you can
see that the Bandleader controls the recording
| | 00:56 | and playback for the Jam Session.
| | 00:57 | That means that as the Bandleader, I control
when the recording starts and stops, I control
| | 01:02 | the tempo and the key, and so on.
| | 01:04 | If I turn that option off, I'll let other
people in the Jam Session control playback as well.
| | 01:07 | I'd like to maintain control,
so I'm going to leave that on.
| | 01:10 | We also have Auto-Collect Recordings.
| | 01:12 | This is another really cool feature.
| | 01:13 | Once we'd start recording our session,
everybody will be recording on his or her own iPad.
| | 01:18 | When we're done, if I have Auto-Collect Recordings
on, all of the different recordings will instantly
| | 01:22 | be copied over to my iPad and
they will appear in my project.
| | 01:26 | If I leave that off, I have the option of
dragging in the performances that I want to keep.
| | 01:29 | All right, so I'll ask Todd to tap Jam Session
on his iPad and you can see he also has the
| | 01:35 | option to create a session, but he will also
see under the Join Session section my iPad.
| | 01:39 | So he can join my session by tapping and we
can do this because we're on the same wi-fi network.
| | 01:44 | All right, so Todd now has a
message saying that we're Ready to Jam.
| | 01:47 | The message also tells him that I'm in control
as the Bandleader, so I am going to be able
| | 01:50 | to control the tempo and the key, and so on.
| | 01:52 | Okay, so Todd will tap OK.
| | 01:55 | And now if I look over on my iPad, I can see
under Band Members, I have Todd's iPad listed
| | 01:59 | here as Connected, and again, we can connect up
to two more iPads for a total of four devices
| | 02:03 | connected together for a Jam Session.
| | 02:05 | All right, I'm just going to tap to close
that window and you can see that we now both
| | 02:09 | have a green icon for the Jam Session
indicating we're connected to an active Jam Session.
| | 02:14 | So Todd already has his keyboard selected, I
am going to select my instrument for this session.
| | 02:17 | So I'm going to create a new track, I am
going to play the Smart Bass and I'm going to go
| | 02:23 | with the Picked and I'm going to
play Notes instead of Chords.
| | 02:28 | Now an important thing to keep in mind here
is when you're playing in a Jam Session, each
| | 02:32 | player will only be able to hear his or
her own iPad through its internal speaker.
| | 02:36 | I'm not going to be able to hear what Todd
is playing through my iPad, just as he won't
| | 02:39 | be able to hear what I'm
playing through his iPad.
| | 02:41 | Now when you're in close quarters and
everybody is just listening to each other's internal
| | 02:45 | speakers, that's probably okay, but ideally,
you probably want to connect the iPad to some
| | 02:48 | sort of Mixer or PA system where you can
have an amplified sound, so everybody can just
| | 02:52 | hear a little bit better.
| | 02:54 | Now in the situation we are set up in here,
both of our iPads are connected to a mixer,
| | 02:58 | so you will be able to hear both of what
we're playing as we're recording our session.
| | 03:02 | But just keep that in mind when you're
working on this on your own, you want to make sure
| | 03:05 | that you have maybe a PA system, or a mixer, or
just keep in close quarters with the person
| | 03:09 | you're jamming with.
| | 03:10 | All right, so I think we're ready to record.
| | 03:12 | We've got our instruments selected, my playhead
is at the beginning. Ready to give this a shot?
| | 03:16 | (music playing)
| | 03:18 | Todd Howard: There we go.
| | 03:19 | Let's see what happens.
| | 03:21 | (music playing)
| | 04:19 | All right, so I think that was pretty decent.
| | 04:21 | Todd Howard: It was fun.
| | 04:22 | I think we both made a little--a couple of
mistakes, but nothing that we couldn't fix
| | 04:25 | using the techniques we looked
at earlier in this chapter.
| | 04:27 | Now you might have seen very briefly that
message saying that it was collecting the
| | 04:30 | recordings from Todd's iPad.
| | 04:32 | So if I go and switch over to the Track View,
you can see that sure enough, in addition
| | 04:37 | to the Picked bass that I just recorded, here's
a synthesizer called Lotus Pond which happens
| | 04:42 | to be the same instrument Todd
was just playing on his iPad.
| | 04:45 | Now over on his iPad, when he switches to
the Track View, you can see that he just has
| | 04:49 | his own recording of his instrument and sort
of a back up here, but I automatically grabbed
| | 04:52 | that as soon as we were done, and
it's now been copied to my iPad.
| | 04:56 | It's muted by default, but I can unmute that
and now I can listen to our performance by tapping Play.
| | 05:02 | (music playing)
| | 05:10 | I'll solo that so you can
hear what he was playing.
| | 05:13 | (music playing)
| | 05:15 | And there is my bass.
| | 05:17 | (music playing)
| | 05:37 | So there you can see, thanks to Jam Session,
we were able to do simultaneous multitrack
| | 05:41 | recording with two iPads.
| | 05:43 | Now we have added two more tracks to
our song in one recording session.
| | 05:47 | Now when you're done, you can tap the
Jam Session button to stop the session.
| | 05:52 | Todd has got in the message saying his Jam
Session is not available anymore and we're
| | 05:57 | now both solo artists again.
| | 06:00 |
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| Importing audio files| 00:00 | So we've now seen how to get just about any
kind of sound into your GarageBand project.
| | 00:04 | We've seen how to play Touch instruments and
Smart Instruments, how to connect guitars,
| | 00:08 | and how to setup a mic so you
can record sounds out of the air.
| | 00:11 | But what if you have a file that already exists?
Maybe you work with a collaborator who sent
| | 00:15 | you a guitar part and they'd like you to maybe
put some bass or drums on it. How do you get
| | 00:19 | that audio file onto your iPad? Or maybe you
have some sound effects sitting on your computer
| | 00:23 | that you'd like to add to your project.
| | 00:25 | So in this exercise I'm going to show you how
to get the sounds from your computer onto your iPad.
| | 00:29 | We start by connecting our iPad to the
computer via the USB connection cable.
| | 00:33 | And then on the computer we go into iTunes.
| | 00:36 | Here I'm going to select my iPad under
Devices then I'll go under Apps, and here I'm going
| | 00:42 | to scroll down and under File Sharing under
the Apps listing I'm going to find GarageBand,
| | 00:49 | and I'm going to click the Add
button here under GarageBand Documents.
| | 00:51 | This is going to allow you to browse through
your computer to find the files you want to import.
| | 00:56 | Now I actually have four versions of the same
file I just created. I created a reverse cymbal
| | 01:00 | sound that I'd like to add
to the beginning of my song.
| | 01:03 | And just to show you here, I have an AIFF
version of the file, I have an M4A, and MP3,
| | 01:09 | and WAV file.
| | 01:10 | So GarageBand can import
all sorts of audio files.
| | 01:12 | If the file you want to import is either grayed
out or doesn't show up that means GarageBand
| | 01:16 | can't use it, so you're going to have to
convert that file to one of the formats GarageBand
| | 01:19 | can use before you can import it.
| | 01:21 | In this case I'll just select the
AIFF file for the uncompressed version.
| | 01:25 | And as soon as it shows up here under
GarageBand Document it's now imported into GarageBand.
| | 01:29 | I don't have to click the Sync
button or anything like that.
| | 01:32 | So I'm in fact now done
with working with iTunes.
| | 01:35 | Here I'll go back to GarageBand and you'll
notice that next to the Apple Loops button
| | 01:39 | a number 1 has shown up here.
| | 01:41 | That indicates that I've imported a
file and GarageBand has detected it.
| | 01:45 | So if I tap the Apple Loops button, it takes
me into the Audio File area, you see this
| | 01:49 | Audio Files 1, there is my reverse
cymbal, I can tap it to listen.
| | 01:53 | (music playing)
| | 01:57 | So that's just a sound of a cymbal being hit
but I reversed it in a program on my computer.
| | 02:02 | And I'd like to start off my song here
on the iPad with that sound effect.
| | 02:05 | So we already know that to add a loop
to our project we just drag it in.
| | 02:12 | There it is.
| | 02:13 | Now it's actually a little bit too long in
this case, because I want it to peak right
| | 02:16 | here at measure 2 where
the song actually starts.
| | 02:19 | So let me just pinch out here to expand the
view, so I can see it a little bit better.
| | 02:24 | And we know that I can just simply tap it,
drag a handle and just trim it to make it shorter.
| | 02:30 | I'm just going to line that up right with
measure 2, let me extend that back out a little
| | 02:35 | bit and let's just turn that up a
little bit and here how that sounds.
| | 02:42 | (music playing)
| | 02:45 | All right, so that is the effect I was going
for now, I now have this nice build-up right
| | 02:50 | to the beginning of my song.
| | 02:51 | And that's how easy it is to
import audio files into GarageBand.
| | 02:54 | Again once it's on your computer, you connect
the iPad to the computer, use iTunes and the
| | 02:58 | file gets transferred right over.
| | 03:00 | And now you really do know how to get just
about any sound into a project in GarageBand.
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| | Importing audio with Audiobus | Working with song sections| 00:00 | So at this point I've got my song
pretty much the way I want it.
| | 00:03 | I've got a verse, a chorus and a verse. I've
got all the instruments that I want to use.
| | 00:07 | But before we get into the mixing process
I want to spend a little bit of time here
| | 00:10 | and arrange the song, because right now with
just the verse, chorus and verse it's kind
| | 00:14 | of short song even for a demo.
| | 00:15 | So what I'd like to do here is just add two
more choruses at the end to finish out this song.
| | 00:21 | And we do this by playing with the song
sections which we looked at earlier.
| | 00:24 | And on paper this would seem pretty easy to
do, but there are a couple of pitfalls that
| | 00:28 | you have to be aware of and I like to
run you through a couple of those now.
| | 00:31 | As we saw earlier, in order to create a new
section we tap the plus button here, that
| | 00:36 | take us to the Song Section menu and we currently
have Section A which is just that 1 bar intro,
| | 00:41 | Section B which is the first verse, Section
C which is the chorus and Section D which
| | 00:45 | is the second verse.
| | 00:47 | Now what I want to do is add two more choruses
to the end of this song, so that's actually
| | 00:50 | Section C, so I'll select that, you can see
it gets highlighted here on the screen, and
| | 00:56 | I want to duplicate that.
| | 00:58 | Now the first thing I run into here is it's
asking me do I want to Modify the Jam Session Song.
| | 01:02 | If you recall earlier, part of this song is
recorded using Jam Session where I was playing
| | 01:06 | the bass and Todd was playing the synthesizer.
| | 01:09 | So what's it's telling me here is if I
change the arrangement of the song I'm no longer
| | 01:12 | going to be able to connect to that same Jam
Session, I'd have to create a new one and
| | 01:16 | continue playing with that one, but
that's okay in this case, so I'll just tap OK.
| | 01:20 | So once again, I've got Section C
selected, I'll tap Duplicate,
| | 01:25 | and now I have Section E, it's 8 bars
because Sections C was also 8 bars.
| | 01:29 | But let's take a look at what happened here.
| | 01:31 | Let's make sure we're looking
at all the sections though.
| | 01:36 | Notice this gap in here that was introduced.
| | 01:39 | I wanted the chorus to go flush up against
the end of the second verse there, but now
| | 01:43 | we have this gap.
| | 01:44 | Let me tap Undo and see
what the problem is here.
| | 01:48 | Notice this synthesizer part is actually going
about one measure beyond the end of the second verse.
| | 01:53 | Let me get the playhead out of the way
here so I can tap the Song Section button.
| | 01:57 | Notice that Section D is 9 bars right now.
| | 02:01 | This extra measure is a result of the
Jam Session we recorded the synth with.
| | 02:04 | It basically gave us one extra measure to
finish playing and then hit the Stop button.
| | 02:08 | So instead of being locked into the
original 8 bars GarageBand just added 1 more bar.
| | 02:13 | So I'm going to switch that back to 8 bars
and you can see now everything is perfectly
| | 02:21 | flush with the end of
that section of the song.
| | 02:24 | Now I can go back in the Song Sections, I'll
select Section C again and I will Duplicate
| | 02:29 | it once more, and there it is. You
can see everything is now lined up.
| | 02:35 | And make we're looking at
all sections one more time.
| | 02:38 | Now on screen this looks pretty clean, but in
fact I've actually introduced yet another problem.
| | 02:42 | Let me solo up the synth once.
| | 02:47 | One of the unique characteristics of MIDI or
synth performances is that all the information
| | 02:51 | about the note being played appears at the beginning
of that region when that note is first pressed.
| | 02:55 | Let's go and look at this instrument once.
| | 02:58 | Now like the regular keyboard--you know we
can play it, but we also have the Pitch and
| | 03:04 | the Modulation wheel, which in this case the
Modulation wheel for these instrument actually
| | 03:07 | acts as sort of a Volume control.
| | 03:12 | The Pitch and Modulation information is
all included when you hit that note.
| | 03:17 | So if you listen here once, notice if I have
my playhead right here in the middle of this
| | 03:20 | first region and I'd tap play.
| | 03:24 | You don't hear the synth.
| | 03:27 | I have to take my playhead all the way back
to the beginning before that note is first
| | 03:30 | pressed and now when I tap play--
| | 03:31 | (music playing)
| | 03:34 | --is when I here it.
| | 03:35 | Now I'm going to let this play all the way
through to this first split where the chorus begins.
| | 03:39 | (music playing)
| | 03:51 | So you notice that drop in level.
| | 03:54 | So by duplicating the chorus we forced
GarageBand to split the region right where that chorus
| | 03:57 | begins and we've actually lost the
Modulation information that told GarageBand how loud
| | 04:02 | we wanted that original
instrument to be played.
| | 04:05 | So if I go back to the chorus that we tapped
on at the end, you'll hear the same problem.
| | 04:09 | And again, since I'm in the middle of a region
you won't hear anything playing until we hit
| | 04:12 | the new region.
| | 04:14 | (music playing)
| | 04:18 | So the volume is just way too low and there's
really no way in GarageBand in the iPad for
| | 04:22 | me to adjust the individual
volume of these different regions.
| | 04:25 | Now let me show you workaround for this.
| | 04:27 | First I'm going to just undo that chorus copy
one more time, so my synth line is all one
| | 04:32 | continuous region now and the volume is how I
need it to be, in fact let's just show that.
| | 04:36 | (music playing)
| | 04:37 | Okay and we don't hear the synth until
the note starts here at the chorus.
| | 04:42 | (music playing)
| | 04:43 | But you can see now the volume
actually shows up here in the volume meter.
| | 04:48 | (music playing)
| | 04:50 | So let me show you the workaround.
| | 04:51 | I am going to select this track and tap Merge.
| | 04:56 | Now normally Merge is used to merge two or
more tracks together, this is sometimes called bouncing.
| | 05:01 | GarageBand only supports 8
tracks total for any project.
| | 05:04 | So if you were in a situation where you'd
used up all of your tracks and you want to
| | 05:07 | get one more track in there, you'd have to select
two or more tracks and then merge them together.
| | 05:12 | So for example, maybe in this song I would merge
the Drum Kit and the Tambourine together just
| | 05:16 | so I have all the
percussion on the same track.
| | 05:19 | But one important thing to keep in mind about
that is you want to make sure the relative
| | 05:22 | volume levels of the tracks you're merging
together are the way you want them to be in
| | 05:25 | the final mix.
| | 05:27 | Because once you merge tracks together there is
no way to independently adjust their volumes after that.
| | 05:31 | But in this case I'm just going to keep the
Lotus Pond, the synthesizer track selected
| | 05:35 | on its own and I'm going to tap Merge.
| | 05:39 | Now GarageBand is going to duplicate this entire
project for me so just in case I accidentally
| | 05:42 | merged tracks together, I can still go back
to the original projects where they're not
| | 05:46 | merged together.
| | 05:47 | But as you can see I now have an audio
recorder track and this is actually my synthesizer
| | 05:51 | track, and yes you can see my voice talking
because the microphone is picking it up.
| | 05:55 | But notice that this is now a purple or Real
Instrument Region; it's no longer a MIDI or Synth region.
| | 06:01 | I now have waveforms for this entire track.
| | 06:03 | It still sounds exactly the same as it was
performed, but now I can have my playhead
| | 06:07 | anywhere in that region and I'll be
able to hear the synth right away.
| | 06:13 | (music playing)
| | 06:17 | Now the reason I did this is now that it's
a real waveform, all the information about
| | 06:21 | that sound is saved throughout that waveform.
| | 06:23 | I don't have to worry about pitch and modulation
information being saved at just one section
| | 06:27 | of that region and possibly being cut off.
| | 06:30 | So now finally, I can come into the Song sections
and like me you will probably always be moving
| | 06:36 | the playhead instead of tapping the Song
Section button because it's so easy to miss.
| | 06:41 | So let's drag that back and try again,
and one more time, there we go.
| | 06:45 | All right, so now again I am going to select
Section C which is my chorus and this time
| | 06:49 | everything should be fine.
| | 06:51 | We'll duplicate that, there's Section E,
it's 8 bars you can see the waveform just gets
| | 06:55 | duplicated there, it made all the splits.
| | 06:57 | And you know what I'm going to duplicate it
one more time; I'll just Duplicate Section
| | 07:00 | E since it's the same thing.
| | 07:02 | And now I have two
choruses at the end of my song.
| | 07:04 | Just make sure I am
looking at all the Sections.
| | 07:08 | So let's just listen to those points
where I made the two new sections.
| | 07:11 | (music playing)
| | 07:14 | The synth is actually too loud now.
| | 07:18 | (music playing)
| | 07:20 | So there is our first copy.
| | 07:22 | (music playing)
| | 07:24 | Let's move forward a bit here.
| | 07:28 | (music playing)
| | 07:44 | And then it ends.
| | 07:47 | So I'm pretty happy with this arrangement now.
| | 07:48 | Now it does sound like it could use a fade
out at the end because it ends so abruptly,
| | 07:52 | but I'll talk about that among other
things in the next movie on mixing our song.
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| Mixing in GarageBand| 00:00 | Once you have all the tracks recorded for
your song and all the sections arranged the
| | 00:04 | way you like, it's time to mix your song.
| | 00:06 | Now mixing song involves several different
aspects including setting the levels of each
| | 00:10 | track, setting each track's position in the
stereo field, adding effects and a lot more.
| | 00:15 | Now in all honesty you are not going to find
too much in terms of tools and options for
| | 00:18 | mixing in the iPad version of GarageBand.
You'll get a lot more control out of professional
| | 00:23 | level audio applications or even
on the Mac version of GarageBand.
| | 00:26 | But you'll find that, especially if you've
been recording with the built-in instruments
| | 00:29 | or the Apple Loops as we have here with the
Electric Piano, the Drum Kits and even the
| | 00:34 | built-in guitar amps, that these sounds have
been professionally engineered and recorded
| | 00:38 | already, so they're going to sound
pretty good right out of the box.
| | 00:41 | So let's take a couple of moments here and
take a look at how to mix in GarageBand.
| | 00:45 | First make sure you can see
all the Track controls here.
| | 00:47 | If you see them collapsed like this, just drag
horizontally across to expand the controls.
| | 00:52 | Because even though, as I mentioned earlier,
you can go up to the Mixer controls and adjust
| | 00:55 | your track settings from here.
| | 00:56 | It's going to be a lot easier to do your
initial mix just using the sliders and buttons that
| | 01:00 | you find in the Track
controls on the left-hand side.
| | 01:03 | So we are going to begin by setting the overall
level of each track relative to the other tracks.
| | 01:07 | Now I generally like to start with the rhythm
section and I like to start by dragging all
| | 01:11 | the Volume sliders all the way down,
so we can just start from zero.
| | 01:15 | So I am going to start with my Drum Kit and
make sure that's selected and I am just going
| | 01:20 | to tap Play and I am going to
keep an eye on these meters here.
| | 01:23 | Now you're seeing that the mics are actually
picking me up here, but once I tap Play I'll
| | 01:26 | be able to adjust the level of the drums.
| | 01:29 | Okay, now I am still hearing the
metronome so let me just stop that.
| | 01:33 | Let's go back to our Settings and I am just
going to turn the Metronome off because I
| | 01:37 | don't really need that for the mix and I
am just going to find it distracting.
| | 01:39 | And now I'll tap Play and I'll start
playing with the level of the drums.
| | 01:46 | (music playing)
| | 01:58 | Now as a general rule, you want to keep an
eye on the level meter in the track itself
| | 02:01 | and the Master Volume level meter up here.
| | 02:04 | Because even though these were professionally
recorded Apple Loops and there is very little
| | 02:07 | chance I can distort them here, when I start
combining this track with the other tracks,
| | 02:11 | I might end up sending too
much volume to the output.
| | 02:13 | So I generally like to start with the Volume
controls a little above the center position.
| | 02:18 | That gives me a little bit more breathing room
in case I need to add more later or pull some back.
| | 02:26 | After getting the drums about where I like
them I usually like to work on the bass next
| | 02:29 | to get those two sitting well with each other.
| | 02:32 | (music playing)
| | 02:47 | Now there really isn't too much right and
wrong here, it's really about what sounds
| | 02:49 | good to your own ears.
| | 02:51 | So that's about what I like for the drum and
bass mix right now, so let's just continue.
| | 02:55 | Let's work on the keys.
| | 02:56 | (music playing)
| | 03:12 | I will throw in some guitar now.
| | 03:17 | (music playing)
| | 03:30 | And lastly we'll add in the keyboards.
| | 03:34 | But I want that to be pretty subtle
so I am going to keep that lower.
| | 03:43 | (music playing)
| | 03:54 | Okay, GarageBand automatically
loops to the beginning for me.
| | 03:58 | So far I still need to add the tambourine
and that little sample at the beginning, so
| | 04:01 | I am just going to let it continue to roll.
| | 04:02 | (music playing)
| | 04:03 | Move it ahead just a little bit
so I can hear the tambourine.
| | 04:07 | (music playing)
| | 04:25 | And the last track is just that sample of
the reverse symbol I put at the beginning
| | 04:28 | of the song.
| | 04:29 | Now to see that a little bit better I am
just going to expand it out a little bit.
| | 04:32 | That way, drag it over, go back to the
beginning and let's just see where that will go.
| | 04:37 | I am going to bring that up
pretty high, and let's listen.
| | 04:43 | (music playing)
| | 04:45 | Might even want a little bit more than that.
| | 04:50 | (music playing)
| | 04:56 | All right, so I think I am
pretty happy with that initial mix.
| | 04:58 | Now again, another aspect of mixing
your song is panning in the stereo field.
| | 05:03 | Right now, by default, all the instruments are
sitting right in the center of both the left
| | 05:06 | and the right channel and it can start to
sound a little bit muddy or crowded in there.
| | 05:10 | You can expand the sound of your mix by
moving some of the instruments either all the way
| | 05:13 | left or right, or just
subtly to one side or the other.
| | 05:16 | For example, we have the Tambourine track,
which like all the other tracks currently
| | 05:19 | sits in the middle of the stereo field.
| | 05:21 | And I think it could benefit from being hard-panned,
meaning put all the way either to the left
| | 05:25 | or to the right.
| | 05:26 | And I think that will open up the mix a little
bit more, it will be a little bit easier to
| | 05:29 | hear that tambourine.
| | 05:30 | I can't do the Pan controls from the Track
controls here on the left, I have to go up
| | 05:33 | to the Mixer controls and
here we'll find Track Pan.
| | 05:37 | Let me actually get the song playing, just
zoom back out here, get my playhead somewhere
| | 05:43 | where the tambourine exists, and I'll
tap Play and play with the panning.
| | 05:47 | (music playing)
| | 05:53 | There it is all the way to the right,
moving over to the left.
| | 05:58 | (music playing)
| | 06:01 | You can see in the Level Meter
it is indeed only on the left.
| | 06:04 | (music playing)
| | 06:06 | So I think that opens up the
tambourine into the mix a little bit more.
| | 06:09 | Now you don't have to always do a hardpan
left or right, you can do a much more subtle
| | 06:12 | panning, for example, maybe
with the Synthesizer track.
| | 06:15 | Maybe I just want that subtly
more to the right-hand side.
| | 06:19 | So again I'll just start the track playing.
| | 06:21 | (music playing)
| | 06:22 | And I'll adjust this pan.
| | 06:27 | (music playing)
| | 06:33 | So that was more of a subtle pan, but again I
think that adds a little more depth to our
| | 06:36 | mix than what we had with the
keyboards just in the center of the mix.
| | 06:40 | Now another thing to keep in mind is once
you've panned a track, especially if it's
| | 06:44 | panned hard left or hard right, that's
essentially cutting down the volume of that particular
| | 06:48 | track, so you might find that you have to
adjust the volume a little bit more once you've
| | 06:51 | done a little bit of panning.
| | 06:52 | But especially important is to just
not neglect panning in your mix.
| | 06:56 | It definitely adds another dimension to your
overall sound so be sure that after you've
| | 07:00 | set your levels you start playing
around with the panning a little bit.
| | 07:02 | Now some other mixing options you'll find
under the Mixer controls are Echo and Reverb Level.
| | 07:08 | For example, if I wanted to select the Guitar
track here and I wanted to add maybe a little
| | 07:12 | bit of a reverb to that track to make a
little more lush, I could do so, let me just get
| | 07:16 | my playhead back here again.
| | 07:17 | And I am going to solo this track just so
you can hear the effects a little bit better.
| | 07:21 | (music playing)
| | 07:27 | Let's get extreme here so you really
hear it, although I don't want it that much.
| | 07:31 | (music playing)
| | 07:32 | And maybe a little bit of echo;
again I'll show you the extreme.
| | 07:40 | (music playing)
| | 07:42 | Add just a little bit of echo on that one.
| | 07:47 | (music playing)
| | 07:49 | So if you want a real instrument track to
sound a little more full or lush, add a little
| | 07:52 | bit of reverb or echo to it, and do keep in
mind that a little does go a long way in terms
| | 07:56 | of these effects.
| | 07:57 | I am just going to un-solo the guitar now.
| | 07:59 | Now this is definitely been a very quick and
dirty mix, you'll want to spend a lot more
| | 08:03 | time polishing up your own songs.
| | 08:05 | But these are just some of the things you
need to keep in mind when you're mixing the
| | 08:07 | individual tracks.
| | 08:09 | Now before we finish up here there are still
some things I can show that you can do to
| | 08:12 | your song as a whole.
| | 08:13 | Let me just get the playhead back to the
beginning here and I am just going to zoom back out
| | 08:17 | so we can see the whole song.
| | 08:19 | If we look under the Mixer settings again,
we'll find an area called Master Effects.
| | 08:23 | We will find that instead of having a slider
here you'll find different names for these
| | 08:27 | effects, we have Ambient Delay, Half
Note Echo, Rock n Roll, Triplet Echo.
| | 08:32 | There is really no way to see what
these do unless you just try them out.
| | 08:36 | For instance, I'll just select
Triplet Echo; I'll play a bit of my song.
| | 08:40 | And probably you even just notice but
when I actually stop playing the song.
| | 08:45 | (music playing)
| | 08:48 | So you can probably hear that delay effect
right when I tap stop it sort of echoed off
| | 08:53 | into the distance.
| | 08:57 | So definitely play around with some of those
Echo Levels, let me turn that Off just for
| | 09:00 | a moment here, and we'll go back to Reverb
and again, Reverb has the same thing, we have
| | 09:05 | names of reverb rather than a
slider anyway to adjust the reverb.
| | 09:09 | So if I wanted to sound like this has being
performed in a Large Hall I could select that.
| | 09:16 | And it sounds like this.
| | 09:19 | (music playing)
| | 09:32 | So I actually like that a lot better than
the Echo effect, it really took the song and
| | 09:35 | made it feel like it was in a much larger
space. It made it much more full and again lush.
| | 09:40 | Now the last thing I want to do here is because
of the way we assembled the song we just went
| | 09:43 | verse, chorus, verse, chorus, chorus, just
by copying sections, we have sort of a very
| | 09:48 | abrupt ending at the end of the
song. Let's give that a listen.
| | 09:53 | (music playing)
| | 10:02 | And just stops, and of course,
we'll loop back to the beginning.
| | 10:06 | But as I mentioned earlier we can go to our
settings and we have a simple On/Off slider
| | 10:10 | here called Fade Out.
| | 10:12 | This is again very useful if you've created a
song but you weren't quite sure how to end
| | 10:16 | it, or you just have a song like this where we
just chopped up pieces and I want to quickly
| | 10:19 | finish the song off.
| | 10:21 | Fade Out automatically applies a
10 second fade to your songs.
| | 10:23 | So it's a nice subtle fade to finish the
song rather than having that sudden drop-off.
| | 10:28 | So with that on, we just roll this back to
the end again, and we'll listen to our fade out.
| | 10:34 | (music playing)
| | 10:50 | Of course it does still
loop back to the beginning.
| | 10:54 | Now unfortunately you are stuck with a 10-second
fade out. There's no way to set that to another
| | 10:57 | length of time.
| | 10:59 | So if you want more control over the fade
out or other aspects of your mix, maybe even
| | 11:03 | to add things like automation to your mix,
those are things again that you can't do in
| | 11:06 | GarageBand for the iPad.
| | 11:07 | But you can export the project and continue
editing it in GarageBand for the Mac, and I'll
| | 11:12 | show how to do that in the next chapter.
| | 11:14 | So for now I think we have a pretty decent
mix, just close the Track controls so we can
| | 11:17 | see the song as a whole, and we're going to
spend the entire next chapter looking at all
| | 11:21 | the different ways you can get your song
out of GarageBand and out into the world.
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6. Exporting and SharingContinuing your work in GarageBand for Mac| 00:00 | If you're a Mac user and you have GarageBand
installed and perhaps you felt like you have
| | 00:04 | taken GarageBand on the iPad to its limits,
you will be happy to know you can transfer
| | 00:08 | your projects from the iPad to your Mac, and
continue working on them from there where
| | 00:12 | you will have access to much
more powerful editing tools.
| | 00:15 | Let's take a look at how this works.
| | 00:17 | So here on my iPad is my mix in progress.
I am going to go to My Songs, and before I
| | 00:23 | send this over to my Mac, I am going to get
rid of this generic name of My Song and I'll
| | 00:26 | just change this into something
more descriptive like My Masterpiece.
| | 00:32 | Okay, so I want to send
this project over to my Mac.
| | 00:35 | So I am going to tap Edit, select the song
and here I'll tap the Share button and here
| | 00:42 | I'll tap Share Song Via iTunes.
| | 00:45 | Now it's going to give me a choice, do I want
to send this to iTunes or to GarageBand. I'll
| | 00:49 | talk about the iTunes option in the next movie.
I am going to tap GarageBand because I want
| | 00:53 | to continue editing it.
| | 00:55 | So I saw that progress bar very
briefly saying it was sending it to iTunes.
| | 00:59 | I'll tap Done and now
I'll switch over to my Mac.
| | 01:03 | On the Mac, I am going to open iTunes and
select my iPad, and then I am going to go to
| | 01:06 | Apps, scroll down, and here under File Sharing,
I am going to select GarageBand, and you can
| | 01:13 | see My Masterpiece is
currently available here.
| | 01:15 | I'll select that and choose
to save that to my Desktop.
| | 01:21 | It copies it over, I can quit iTunes and you
can see here is My Masterpiece.band. That is
| | 01:28 | a GarageBand file.
| | 01:29 | So by double-clicking that,
I can launch GarageBand.
| | 01:33 | Now GarageBand is going to ask me to save
this project as another file because it's
| | 01:36 | going to create a GarageBand
for the Mac version of the file.
| | 01:39 | That way I can use that file as a backup if I
ever need to move the file back to my iPad to edit.
| | 01:44 | I'll leave the name as My Masterpiece 2 and
just save it to my Desktop, and here's the
| | 01:52 | song in GarageBand. You can see it has the
exact same tracks, I've got the Electric
| | 01:55 | Piano, the Drum kit, Tambourine, the Guitar,
Bass, the Reverse Cymbal, and the Synthesizer
| | 02:01 | file we turned into a real audio
region, and it even sounds the same.
| | 02:05 | (music playing)
| | 02:17 | So all the tracks are there, but unlike the
iPad version of GarageBand where I have almost
| | 02:21 | maxed out all of my tracks, I can continue
adding dozens of more tracks here if I want
| | 02:24 | to add more instruments, and I have access
to many more features here for editing and
| | 02:28 | adjusting my mix.
| | 02:29 | For example, if I go to the Track menu and
choose to show the Master Track here in GarageBand,
| | 02:35 | you can see this is actually an automation
curve here that put in that ten second fade
| | 02:38 | at the end of the song that we
added in the previous chapter.
| | 02:40 | You can listen to that.
| | 02:41 | Actually I am going to turn off the cycle
region, so it doesn't repeat at the end of
| | 02:44 | the song here.
| | 02:45 | (music playing)
| | 02:56 | So that's where the fade begins
and we have that ten second fade.
| | 03:00 | And if you recall in GarageBand on the iPad,
we really had no choice, we only could choose
| | 03:05 | a ten second fade or no fade at all, but here
in GarageBand for the Mac I can come in here
| | 03:10 | and move some of those points around to
reduce the amount of time the fade takes.
| | 03:15 | I can even press the Delete key to get rid
of some of these points, and just make it a
| | 03:21 | more rapid fade at the end here.
| | 03:24 | (music playing)
| | 03:35 | So that's just one example of the many ways
you can take your mixes further and add more
| | 03:38 | dimensions using GarageBand on the Mac.
| | 03:40 | If you'd like more information on GarageBand on
the Mac, check out GarageBand '11 Essential
| | 03:44 | Training on the lynda.com
online training library.
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| Exporting your song to iTunes| 00:00 | Once you're happy with your song, chances
are you'll want to share it with friends,
| | 00:04 | family, co-workers, the occasional random
stranger, and since it's not exactly convenient
| | 00:08 | to carry your iPad everywhere just in case
somebody wants to hear your song, GarageBand
| | 00:12 | offers many ways for you to share or export
your song out to your computer via email, and so on.
| | 00:17 | Let's start by taking a look
at how to export to iTunes.
| | 00:19 | On my iPad in the My Songs area, I will tap
Edit, select the song I want to share and
| | 00:25 | then tap the Share button.
| | 00:26 | Here I will choose Share Songs Via iTunes.
| | 00:30 | This is the same thing we did to export our
song to GarageBand previously, only this time
| | 00:33 | I am going to tap iTunes.
| | 00:34 | This will create a compressed version of the
song that I can then conveniently share with
| | 00:38 | other people, play through my
computer system or through my home stereo.
| | 00:43 | Next, I see a screen that allows me
to add information about this song.
| | 00:46 | This is vital if I want to be able
to find this song later in iTunes.
| | 00:49 | I can add my Artist Name, me, I can add a
Composer Name, an Album Name, and here I can
| | 00:54 | choose the quality of the
file that I want to export.
| | 00:57 | The default setting is High Quality
which should be fine for most cases.
| | 01:00 | You might also want to choose Uncompressed
if space isn't an issue and you want to make
| | 01:03 | sure you have the very best quality available.
| | 01:05 | In this case, I am just going to go with the
default High Quality, and I will tap Share.
| | 01:10 | It will take a few moments to compress
the song and prepare it for iTunes.
| | 01:15 | Once it's done, I can tap Done, and now with
my iPad connected to my computer, I can now
| | 01:19 | pull the song into iTunes.
| | 01:21 | So here in iTunes, I am going to select my
iPad, I will go to Apps, scroll down under
| | 01:28 | File Sharing here and select GarageBand.
| | 01:30 | So here you can see the files that I've
exported so far. Here is the file that I exported in
| | 01:33 | the previous movie as a GarageBand file that
I was then able to open in GarageBand on the
| | 01:38 | Mac, but here's the version of the
file as an M4A or a compressed file.
| | 01:41 | So I will select that one, click Save To,
I will just save it to my Desktop in this
| | 01:46 | case, and if I just move my window a bit out
of the way here, you can see there it is,
| | 01:51 | My Masterpiece.m4a.
| | 01:53 | Now depending on how your computer is set up,
if it's set up to open up M4As in iTunes,
| | 01:56 | I can just double-click it.
| | 01:57 | But just to be safe here, I am just
going to drag it into my iTunes Library.
| | 02:00 | So I will make sure my Music Library is selected,
I'll drag it in, and now because I added information
| | 02:09 | about the song, I can search for my name,
and there it is! So I have now successfully
| | 02:14 | added the file to iTunes where I can play it.
| | 02:17 | (music playing)
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| Sending your song over email| 00:00 | In addition to exporting your song to a computer,
you can also share your song with others directly
| | 00:05 | from the iPad itself.
| | 00:07 | One way to do this is via email.
| | 00:09 | Start in the My Songs area
of GarageBand and tap Edit.
| | 00:12 | Then select the song you want to share, then
tap the Share button here in the upper left-hand corner.
| | 00:18 | Here's where we've been sharing to iTunes
previously, this time I'm going to tap Mail.
| | 00:23 | The first thing we see is a window where you
can add some information about your song.
| | 00:26 | This can be especially useful if the person
receiving your song puts the song into his
| | 00:30 | or her copy of iTunes.
| | 00:31 | That way the information that you add here,
Artist Name, Composer Name and Album Name
| | 00:35 | will show up in iTunes.
| | 00:36 | I'm just going to leave my name
as the Artist Name and tap Email.
| | 00:41 | It takes a few moments to export the song. Now
if it's a longer song it will take a longer
| | 00:44 | time to export,
| | 00:45 | but eventually, you'll see this message window
popup right here in GarageBand. All I really
| | 00:49 | have to do here is enter a recipient in the
To field, I can change the message or the
| | 00:52 | subject line if I want to.
| | 00:54 | You can see that my file, the compressed version of
it has been added right here attached to the email.
| | 00:58 | So once I add the recipient's name, maybe
change the message a bit, I just tap Send
| | 01:02 | and off it goes to my friend,
colleague or ANR agent.
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| Sharing your song online| 00:00 | If you want to share your song with a larger
audience, emailing each person individually
| | 00:04 | from GarageBand probably is going to
be a little bit too time-consuming.
| | 00:07 | Instead, you can take advantage of GarageBand's
connection to three of the most popular social
| | 00:11 | networks for sharing content.
| | 00:14 | Again we start it the same way, here in the
My Songs area, we tap Edit, we select our
| | 00:18 | song and then we tap the Share button.
| | 00:20 | So you can see here we have the options to
share to Facebook, YouTube, and SoundCloud.
| | 00:25 | Chances are, you already have a Facebook
account or possibly a YouTube account, and you will
| | 00:29 | find a lot of musicians have been
signing up for SoundCloud accounts.
| | 00:32 | SoundCloud is kind of the YouTube of audio
files as a service dedicated just for serving
| | 00:36 | up audio streams.
| | 00:38 | So in each case, you will need an account
with each one of these services before you
| | 00:41 | can tap one of these buttons.
| | 00:42 | So for instance, if I tap YouTube, the first
thing it asked me to do is sign-in with my
| | 00:45 | Username and Password.
| | 00:47 | Once I do that, I can do things like adding a
description to the video, adding tags, deciding
| | 00:51 | whether the video or in this case the audio file,
will be open to the public or just private
| | 00:56 | on my YouTube account.
| | 00:57 | I'll just cancel that.
| | 00:59 | In the case of Facebook, it's going to
switch over to my web browser, and it's going to
| | 01:05 | ask me to sign into my account here so I can
authorize this iPad to access my Facebook account.
| | 01:09 | Let's go back to GarageBand and the experience
is very similar with the SoundCloud account.
| | 01:17 | Once again you will have to sing into your
account before you can access the services.
| | 01:22 | But once you have signed into your account,
you will be able to share your song by simply
| | 01:25 | uploading it from your iPad directly to your
Facebook, YouTube or SoundCloud account and
| | 01:29 | share it with your hundreds or thousands of Facebook
friends or even the millions of people on YouTube.
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| Syncing songs across devices with iCloud| 00:00 | If you're a subscriber to Apple's iCloud
service, you're really going to appreciate the way
| | 00:04 | it's been integrated with GarageBand.
| | 00:06 | Not only can you back up your songs to the
cloud, but you can also sync your songs to
| | 00:10 | all of your iOS devices running GarageBand.
| | 00:12 | Let's take a look at how this works.
| | 00:14 | First of all, on your iPad, go to Settings >
iCloud and just make sure your iCloud information
| | 00:20 | has been added here.
| | 00:22 | And you will want to do the same with all
the other iOS devices running GarageBand to
| | 00:26 | which you want to sync your music.
| | 00:28 | Then go back to GarageBand, and here in the
My Songs area, tap the plus button and turn
| | 00:33 | on Use iCloud.
| | 00:36 | Now when I tap Edit, I'll see
a little iCloud icon appear.
| | 00:41 | This allows me to select the song that I want
to sync or back up, and when I tap the iCloud
| | 00:45 | button, I can choose Upload Song to iCloud.
| | 00:50 | Now depending on the size of your song, it may
take a couple of minutes to several minutes
| | 00:53 | to upload the song to the cloud, but once it
does, you will see this little Cloud icon
| | 00:57 | appear next to your file.
| | 00:58 | At this point, the song has now
backed up to my iCloud account.
| | 01:01 | Now I can repeat this process
on my iPhone or my iPod touch.
| | 01:05 | Now this only does work with the iPhone 4 or
later or the fourth generation iPod touch
| | 01:09 | or later, it does work on
all iPad models though.
| | 01:12 | And once that icon appears, all the songs that
I have synced to iCloud will start appearing
| | 01:15 | on all those other devices.
| | 01:16 | This is such a great feature because, let's
just say I spent the whole morning working on
| | 01:19 | this project, I take a break, I go to the
coffee shop, they've got wi-fi there, and I've
| | 01:24 | suddenly come up with a great string part
of my head that I want to add to the song.
| | 01:27 | I can pull out my iPhone, add that string
part, and when I get home, I will find the
| | 01:30 | string section already on my
iPad waiting for me to work on it.
| | 01:35 | So again, if you have an iCloud account,
there's very little reason not to take advantage of
| | 01:38 | this service.
| | 01:39 | First of all, it backs up your songs, but
also, because it syncs across devices, you
| | 01:43 | can work on your music in so many more places.
| | 01:45 | Plus, Apple offers free iCloud accounts with
five gigabytes of storage space to anybody
| | 01:49 | who wants one.
| | 01:50 | So again, if you don't have an account, just
go to icloud.com and sign up for an account.
| | 01:55 |
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ConclusionGoodbye| 00:00 | And there you have it.
| | 00:02 | I hope you have enjoyed going on this trip
through GarageBand with me, and that you will be
| | 00:05 | able to take what you have learned here and
start creating some great songs on your own.
| | 00:09 | Now I have mentioned this a few times
throughout the course, but if you're interested in more
| | 00:12 | information on how to connect all types of
devices like guitars, keyboards, and mics
| | 00:16 | to your iPad and play them through GarageBand,
be sure to check out the course in this series
| | 00:20 | called Inputs, Mics and MIDI.
| | 00:22 | And be sure to check lynda.com regularly or
sign-up on our mailing list to be alerted
| | 00:26 | when we release new courses
in iPad music production.
| | 00:29 | So until next time, I'm Garrick Chow, and I
hope you have a lot of fun creating music
| | 00:33 | with your iPad and GarageBand.
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