GarageBand iOS Explained®
Chapter 1 : Playing & Recording Touch Instruments
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3:45 Overview
Get a Bird’s eye view of the GarageBand interface and workflow, and learn how to set the GarageBand settings in the iPad settings window.
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3:38 The User Interface
Find your way around the Touch Instrument and Tracks views, see where all the important controls are located and how the interface is laid out on the iPad screen.
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7:28 The Keyboard Instrument
Learn how to play the keyboard touch instrument, change the playable range displayed, use the sustain function, change the keyboard layout, use the pitch bend and mod wheels, edit the velocity response, use portamento and glissando effects, scroll the keyboard, edit the sound parameters, have notes conform to a specific scale, use the built in arpeggiator, and save a customized sound.
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4:08 Recording a Touch Instrument
Learn how to set up to record a touch instrument, including setting a count in, selecting a metronome sound, setting the time signature, key signature, tempo, and positioning the playhead. After that, see how to save and rename a song.
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4:03 Quantizing
Discover how to correct the timing of recorded notes by using GarageBand's quantization feature, which rounds off the placement of recorded notes to the nearest beat or beat subdivisions.
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4:39 Drums
See how to choose a drum kit sound, play the drums using one and two finger gestures, set crash cymbal, velocity, and merging preferences, and record a drum part.
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5:58 Audio Recorder
See how this is used to record live audio and place it in your arrangement. Learn how to set the input level, reduce background noise, add effects to the recorded material, and blend it in with the other tracks in your song.
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6:18 Sampler
See how the Sampler is used to capture live audio and spread the recording out across the keyboard so that it can be played and recorded as pitched notes.
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7:05 Editing Notes in Regions
Learn how to copy, paste, add, delete, lengthen, move, transpose, and edit the dynamics of notes in regions.
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5:33 Smart Guitar
See how the smart guitar instrument is used to strum and play notes and chords, and how the auto play feature is used to generate patterns based on chords associated with the key of your song.
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5:13 Guitar Amp
Learn how to use GarageBand to record your live electric guitar. See how to adjust the input settings, choose a sound, customize the amp settings, and work with stomp box effects.
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6:30 Smart Keyboards
See how this touch instrument is used to play chords with or without bass notes, as well as automatically generated comping patterns, using a variety of keyboard sounds.
Chapter 2 : Building an Arrangement
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4:45 Working with Multiple Songs
Discover how to create, duplicate, rename, sort, share, and delete songs, and how to manage them within folders.
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4:57 Smart Drums
See how the Smart Drums instrument is used to build up drum patterns one kit piece at a time on a four way grid with simple intuitive controls for complexity and dynamics, and how it can randomly generate an entire groove by tapping the dice button.
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4:52 Smart Bass
Discover the Smart Bass touch instrument and see how it is used to generate parts for either electric, acoustic, or synth bass using auto play and multi finger gestures.
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3:47 Adding Custom Chords
Learn how to edit and save the chords used in Smart Instruments auto play mode. Changes made apply to the chords used in all Smart Instruments.
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6:50 Smart Strings
Discover how to choose different string section styles, play one or several string instruments at once, play notes, chords, and rhythmic patterns, and use either legato, bowed, or pizzicato articulations.
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5:01 Apple Loops
Learn how to search, audition, and add Apple Loops to your songs. They are short prerecorded audio phrases or beats containing meta data that allows them to play back at the tempo and key of your song.
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6:41 Editing in Tracks View
Learn how to select, move, trim, loop, split, and join regions in Tracks View.
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4:38 Thickening the Arrangement
See how the copy and paste functions are used to double and thicken existing parts, and how echo and panning are used to enhance the movement of the song by creating rhythmic repeats.
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6:23 Working with Song Sections
Explore ways of expanding your song by creating additional sections that contain either completely new material or variations of existing material, how to vary the length and order of the sections, and how to edit regions across multiple sections.
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6:00 Finalizing & Sharing Your Music
See how to merge tracks together in order to overcome the maximum track count limitations, alter the master echo and reverb effects, add a fadeout, and share your music via iTunes, email, the Media Browser, Facebook, Youtube, and even as a ringtone!
Product Overview
Apple's GarageBand for iOS is far and away the most popular music creation app on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch, and Apple DAW expert Eli Krantzberg shows you how to get the most out of it! Eli will teach you How to Record, Mix, and Share your own songs using nothing but your iOS device.
The first category of videos, Playing & Recording Touch Instruments, gives an overview of what GarageBand for iOS can offer. Eli guides you around the User Interface, its Windows and Instruments, and then dives into how to Record and Quantize (correct the timing) of your tracks.
Moving on, you'll see How to Build an Arrangement, Work with Multiple Songs, Smart Instruments, and How to Add Custom Chords and Apple Loops. That leads to a examples of Editing and Thickening Your Arrangement, and How to Work with Song Sections. The series then wraps up with explaining How to Add the Finishing Touches to your Project and share it.
If you've ever wanted to go from tapping out your musical ideas on your iPhone or iPad to finishing a song and sharing it with the world, don't miss "GarageBand iOS Explained!"
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Reviews
Submitted 6 months ago
A good overview to get started
Everything was well explained with good pacing. I am using this to get started with using on iPhone and albeit some differences it serves as a good introduction. Thanks!
I am a: Hobbyist, Sound Designer, Game Designer
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Submitted 7 months ago
Very helpful
Again, a great presentation, full of useful info and tips.
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Submitted 9 months ago
Helpful indeed!
A little bit dated regarding the version, but even though I have the latest iOS update (summer 2020) it serves the purpose of getting you up to speed to a level in which further exploration and learning can be done at one's own pace with a solid base to build on.
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Submitted 1 year ago
Superb
I’ve had an iPad for years and a desktop DAW for many more, but I’m new to GarageBand and iOS DAWs in general. Eli Krantzberg is simply the best music software tutor on the planet, and he’s done it again! I feel completely educated and confident in GarageBand- a week ago I knew next to nothing about it! Groove 3 is unsurpassed in the field - the best there is!
I am a: Hobbyist, Musician, Producer, Audio Engineer
Ease of Use Quality of Videos Value of Training Access to Videos
Submitted 1 year ago
A comprehensive look at GarageBand.
GarageBand iOS Explained covers every thing you need to create a song in an easy to understand presentation. Highly recommended.
Ease of Use Quality of Videos Value of Training Access to Videos
Submitted 4 years ago
very informative
helpful guide
I am a: Beginner, Semi-Pro, Professional, Audio Engineer, Mastering Facility
Ease of Use Quality of Videos Value of Training Access to Videos
Submitted 4 years ago
Excellent tutorial.
There are a lot of iPad-specific tricks that are useful, and as a general introduction, it's enough to get you using the app more efficiently.
I am a: Professional, Musician
Ease of Use Quality of Videos Value of Training Access to Videos
Submitted 5 years ago
Excellent tutotial!!
Have been a GB user for a while but really needed to get my head around the IOS GB. This explained everything! Ready to work on IPAD now!!
I am a: Professional, Musician
Ease of Use Quality of Videos Value of Training Access to Videos
Submitted 5 years ago
Great starter guide!!!
We found this online a few days and and bought it right away. My husband and I spent the afternoon watching all the videos. What a great starter guide. We no longer feel like fish out of water. We are now diving in and recording.
I am a: Musician
Ease of Use Quality of Videos Value of Training Access to Videos
Reviews
Submitted 6 months ago
A good overview to get started
Everything was well explained with good pacing. I am using this to get started with using on iPhone and albeit some differences it serves as a good introduction. Thanks!
I am a: Hobbyist, Sound Designer, Game Designer
Submitted 7 months ago
Very helpful
Again, a great presentation, full of useful info and tips.
Submitted 9 months ago
Helpful indeed!
A little bit dated regarding the version, but even though I have the latest iOS update (summer 2020) it serves the purpose of getting you up to speed to a level in which further exploration and learning can be done at one's own pace with a solid base to build on.
Submitted 1 year ago
Superb
I’ve had an iPad for years and a desktop DAW for many more, but I’m new to GarageBand and iOS DAWs in general. Eli Krantzberg is simply the best music software tutor on the planet, and he’s done it again! I feel completely educated and confident in GarageBand- a week ago I knew next to nothing about it! Groove 3 is unsurpassed in the field - the best there is!
I am a: Hobbyist, Musician, Producer, Audio Engineer
Submitted 1 year ago
A comprehensive look at GarageBand.
GarageBand iOS Explained covers every thing you need to create a song in an easy to understand presentation. Highly recommended.
Submitted 4 years ago
very informative
helpful guide
I am a: Beginner, Semi-Pro, Professional, Audio Engineer, Mastering Facility
Submitted 4 years ago
Excellent tutorial.
There are a lot of iPad-specific tricks that are useful, and as a general introduction, it's enough to get you using the app more efficiently.
I am a: Professional, Musician
Submitted 5 years ago
Excellent tutotial!!
Have been a GB user for a while but really needed to get my head around the IOS GB. This explained everything! Ready to work on IPAD now!!
I am a: Professional, Musician
Submitted 5 years ago
Great starter guide!!!
We found this online a few days and and bought it right away. My husband and I spent the afternoon watching all the videos. What a great starter guide. We no longer feel like fish out of water. We are now diving in and recording.
I am a: Musician
1. When did you start dabbling in music?
I started playing drums in high school at age fourteen. Like most kids my age around then, I was into progressive rock. Genesis, Emerson Lake and Palmer, and Yes. They rocked my world. A few short years later though, my musical life changed. While studying music in college I discovered Charlie Parker, Milt Jackson, Sonny Stitt, and John Coltrane. Milt Jackson spoke to me in such a profound way that it left me no choice but to take up vibraphone.
These great players, along with drummers like Philly Joe Jones, Max Roach, Art Blakey, and Elvin Jones changed not only the way I thought about drumming, but also music - and by extension, life - as a whole. I realized life was meant to be a creative endeavor. The idea of improvising based on a loose set of guidelines and rules permeated into my psyche even when I wasn't holding a pair of drumsticks or mallets. But if I am going to be perfectly truthful, I have to hold Henry Miller and Woody Allen equally responsible for shaping the way I view and experience the world around me.
2. What training have you had?
I am currently an Apple certified Logic Pro. Young and cocky, and armed with only a partial University degree, I dropped out of school and began playing steady commercial hotel engagements and jazz gigs when I could. This went on for many years until I decided it was time to complete my degree - which I ultimately did with a major in Political Science and a minor in music.
It was at this point that I formed my current band Nightshift. We are going in to our twenty third year now - playing commercial one nighters like weddings, corporate events, etc. Don't turn your nose up at it though - it has allowed me a wonderful quality of life. It gave me the freedom to go back to school and complete a post graduate degree in Communications Studies - all the while supporting myself by playing weddings.
3. When did you get into recording?
It was in this graduate program - in the early nineties - that I found myself drawn to the fledgling emerging universe of hard disc recording and midi sequencing. Based on nothing more than the recommendation of one of my band mates who had an old Atari, I jumped in head first and bought a Mac LC ll, along with a version 1.1 of what was then Notator Logic. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. But, in hindsight, it was a decision of epic importance in my life - shaping my future as much as the music of Milt Jackson and Charlie Parker did fifteen years prior.
I opened up my own commercial home studio in 1998 and began doing a variety of projects, working on radio jingles, artist CD projects, and whatever came my way. A couple of years later a colleague called me up - desperate. He was working at a post production house and one of the editors had just quit. They were doing audio post for a weekly TV series and needed a Pro Tools editor - and fast! And so, once again, I jumped in head first into what would ultimately open up my world even more - the world of Pro Tools.
4. People you have worked with/for?
Focusing on Logic, I built up a small but loyal client base and my phone kept ringing for Logic tech support and instruction. Film composers and studio owners all over the city were calling me. Even the music stores were giving out my phone number at this point! This kind of stuff becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. The more of it you do, the more calls you get to keep doing it. At least that's the way it should be!
As my Logic chops kept growing, I was hired by an old buddy of mine, Len Sasso, who was then an associate editor at Electronic Musician magazine, and began writing some columns for them. I had a blast doing them - and really learned to focus and express my thoughts in a concise and clear manner. This lead to a collaboration with LA based composer Terry Michael Huud on the 2006 film called Civic Duty - which was certainly one of the highlights of my professional life as a composer.
5. Why are you so good at training people?
I wake up every day excited to boot up, and create. Whether it's instructional videos, creating music, working with a studio client, performing with my band, or teaching at the schools - my days are filled with what I love doing. Enriched by the stimulation and creative freedom this modern music making software brings to my life. I bring that excitement and passion to each and every training product I create. My years of experience both using and teaching these programs has taught me the best way to make the user comfortable with these complex programs.
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