I have ignored Garageband on the Mac for a long time. I rarely record my own music or my own playing and there seemed little reason to do so, much less process it.
But, times change.
A workstudy student who was doing some video editing for me needed some copyright free music for a soundtrack to a video. I said, "Why don't you just use Garageband?"
Turns out, he was the only college student in America who had not used Garageband. So I had to learn it next morning so I could teach him in the afternoon. I did and since then, I have taught about five other people how to do the basics.
My very first tune, Chimacum Groove, is mostly standard Garageband loops with additions by me playing live on my octave mandolin, playing the melody from the sampled hurdy gurdy.
(Chimacum is a small town on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington state, at the head of a long, beautiful valley which makes for great backroad driving on an Autumn afternoon.)
Over the weekend, I got more ambitious for my second tune and made it rather long -- a nearly twenty minute groove to which I added recordings of me overdubbing my Turkish baglama saz (that rather sitar like sound, both chords and solos) and also some tenor ukulele fed through a filter (sounds sort of like an electric seal mating call.)
Enjoy...
[UPDATE: Since then, apart from a few video sound effects, I haven't made any more Garageband tunes. The novelty wore off pretty quickly.]
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