Music Therapy using GarageBand

Music Therapy using GarageBand

Emily MorrisEmily Morris

What is Music Therapy?What is Music Therapy?

“Music Therapy is an established healthcare profession that uses music to address physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs of individuals of all ages and abilities.” -American Music Therapy Association

“Music Therapy is an established healthcare profession that uses music to address physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs of individuals of all ages and abilities.” -American Music Therapy Association

What is GarageBand?What is GarageBand?

Software designed to allow users to record, edit and mix music using audio and MIDI features

Your own personal recording studio!

Software designed to allow users to record, edit and mix music using audio and MIDI features

Your own personal recording studio!

Put them together and what do you get?

Put them together and what do you get?

Make songs for and with patients to boost morale, help their memory, let them exhibit their talents, etc.

Make songs for and with patients to boost morale, help their memory, let them exhibit their talents, etc.

Songs Of LoveSongs Of Love

Non profit organization that provides a personalized song for children and young adults with life threatening illness.

Non profit organization that provides a personalized song for children and young adults with life threatening illness.

Canopy CoveEating Disorder Treatment Clinic

Canopy CoveEating Disorder Treatment Clinic

Each patient works with a music therapist to write a song and record it through their entire treatment plan and then get to keep a copy

Lyric analysis, songwriting and expression of feelings

Each patient works with a music therapist to write a song and record it through their entire treatment plan and then get to keep a copy

Lyric analysis, songwriting and expression of feelings

How GarageBand WorksHow GarageBand Works

To wrap it all up…To wrap it all up…

Its not about making a hit It is for the wellbeing of the patients and

to help improve their quality of life GarageBand is extremely user friendly

and easy to adapt to quickly It doesn’t matter if you’re a first time

musician or a trained professional

Its not about making a hit It is for the wellbeing of the patients and

to help improve their quality of life GarageBand is extremely user friendly

and easy to adapt to quickly It doesn’t matter if you’re a first time

musician or a trained professional