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31 08 07 GarageBand Plans
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Today I started a bit of work with garageBand and a few primary sevens.
In the summer I visited Lori Ramsay to find out about The Mothership. Lori gave me a great intro to using GarageBand to create tunes and I left with a set of her notes.
I've added some screenshots to these to use with the children, using Pages. It was the first time I'd used Pages and it seems a pretty simple app to create pretty and simple documents.
This is the first version of the worksheets, and I've not used them with kids yet, but I've uploaded them if you want a look. Feedback and suggestions are more than welcome.
Update: After Mark's comment I realised that there is an easier way to lay the loops out in a long strip, here is a sheet.
John – great tutorial. I’m wondering if there’s a reason you’ve suggested that the kids copy and paste the loops as opposed to using the loop function which would perhaps avoid the difficulties of positioning the loops exactly in place (although with snapping and regular loops I guess it’s not too much of a big deal). I always suggest to kids that they use the loop tool (in ’08, hover towards the top of the loop and the icon will turn into a curly arrow) and then if they need to change the pitch or replace a particular section with an alternative loop they can either split the loop or drop in another one in place.
Mark (Email) (URL) - 31 08 07 - 22:09
Hi Mark,
Thanks, Lori’s working method & pages make this sort of thing a snip.
The children did find it quite difficult to alt-drag and align the loops. But the idea is that they end up with a wall of sound bricks and then create an intro and outro (and later maybe even a verse-chorus) by taking loops out of the ‘wall’.
But I am going to change the instructions to copy paste, past, paste… rather than alt-drag as that gets round the alignment problem. repeated pastes seems to add a loop after the last one pasted and will make the wall much quicker.
(I am really learning on the hoof here as I’ve not used GarageBand much)
John Johnston (Email) (URL) - 01 09 07 - 07:23
I used Garageband the other day with P7 and found the copy paste ,paste option better for some loops which when extended were blank. We are just experimenting and like you I am learning as I go. We are using the Close Encounters loop and building around that. Good fun isn’t it
Morag Macdonald (Email) - 06 09 07 - 20:43
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