GUIDE TO GARAGE BAND

HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN ART FROM SOUNDS…

• First you pick the microphone to be able to record sounds.

• After clicking on the microphone you will end up on this page. Here you can record the sounds

NOW THE FUN BEGINS…• Then you click this icon to go into

the editing page. • This is what the editing page looks

like…

RECORDING MULTIPLE SOUNDS

• If you try to record a new sound, but in the same song, you will notice that the previous recording plays in the back ground, for this to stop you have to mute the previous sounds. You mute the previous sound by being in the editing page and pressing the megaphone button, you will notice that the sound went from blue to grey. You will also notice that the megaphone went from blue to grey.

You can also switch to headphones, if that is more convenient.

CHANGING THE SOUNDS• If you want a sound to have a

different voice, or type of vibration, there are certain options garage band gives you. The screen pops up as soon as you are done recording a sound.

• Then the sound will show up like this…

PUTTING SOUNDS TOGETHER• Earlier in the guide you might

have noticed that the new sound came up on its own row. This allows you to put sounds together. Say you wanted to create background noise where there wasn’t any this makes it possible.

• You can also change the volume of one sound, if you want one to pop out more than the other.

SPLITTING SOUNDS

• Sometimes there are parts of a sound we recorded that we don’t want, but it’s not worth deleting the whole thing, or maybe a certain part of the sound would be better somewhere else. It can even be that you want to copy just that certain piece so you can copy and paste it on another part. To do this you click on sound, get the options, choose split, and slice as many times as needed.

RENAMING SOUNDS• Sometimes it begins to get

confusing if you have to many sounds on the screen. You begin to loose track of which is which. It takes too much time to listen to each one over and over again, so there is an option to name them so you know what they are.

SOME TIPS…

• If you need more space because garage band didn’t give enough just add more on by clicking the plus sign at the very right and then adding more numbers to the length.

SOME TIPS…

• To start a new recording but on the same song you have to press the plus sign at the very bottom left hand side.

SOME TIPS…

• Before recording sound, decide if you want the metronome or the count-in. If you don’t want them they can be very annoying.

• The settings lets you choose if you want them, first you press on the settings tool in the upper right, and it drops the options down.

FINALE!! • Then at the end, after all the

cutting and listening and re-listening, and more cutting, you can merge all the different sounds together so you have your one song.

• Then it all turns into one song, like this one.

CONGRATULATIONS, NOW YOU KNOW HOW TO USE GARAGE BAND!