Garageband for iPad + iPhone - A Beginner's Guide (Udemy.com)
Learn The Recording Studio In Your Pocket
Created by: David Miller
Last updated January 2019
What you will learn
- create fully realized, studio quality tracks on their iOS device.
- understand how Garageband functions.
- come up with their own song structures.
- understand how to mix tracks in Garageband.
- use the Garageband instruments effectively even if they don't know how to play any live instruments.
How it compares
Against the other 241 rated Udemy courses in Music Production on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.2 out of 5higher than 6% of them
- Reviews32#237 of 242 by number of reviews
- Length2.1 hoursshorter than 75% of them
- Last updatedJanuary 2019earlier than 82% of them
Course Description
Garageband iOS is Apple's incredibly powerful mobile recording studio that allows anyone to play and compose professional sounding music. It's allowed individuals to create natural sounding orchestras with little more than their phone and a pair of headphones.
In this class, we explore how Garageband works and how someone can compose their own music without any previous experience playing instruments or writing songs. We'll look at some different genres of music, and build demos of each track, including:
techno
trip hop/ hip hop
ambient/ classical/ new age
Each genre of music has their own requirements, so within each demonstration we'll work our way through:
learning the types of instruments
arpeggios and chords
using quantization to straighten out our playing
working with samples from other sources and creating our own sound samples
mixing the music both within Garageband and using alternate digital workstations
creating filters and guitar amplifiers as a way to give texture to our music
linking other music apps with Garageband
and much much more!
Instructor Details
- 4.2 Rating
32 Reviews
David Miller
David was born in 1977 in Omaha, NE. He graduated with his BFA in Photography from Arizona State University in 2006, creating portrait series that reflected both the hyperkinetic films, games and comics of the 1980s and 1990s, as well as more humanist documentary work with Indigenous communities in America and Australia.
After ASU he became a teaching artist as well as exhibing around the Southwest/ West Coast and been published in numerous magazines such as Orion, View Camera, B+W/ Color, and others. In 2014 he was named as one of the top 100 Creatives of Arizona by New Times Magazine. He currently lives in Chandler with wife Vesna and 2 children, Patrick and Magdalena.
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Reviews
By ERIC TENBROECK on 12/1/2024
Fantastic Garage Band lesson. Thank you for your hard work
By Aidan Barry on 12/7/2021
examples could be better...but the explanations are very good
By Mike Thunman on 10/5/2021
Great explanation of GarageBand
By Starla Becker-Tillinghast on 12/20/2020
yes. I am trying to learn the garage band program so I can record myself
By Mauricio Balisbisan on 11/16/2020
Probably will venture on a bit different music composition/recording aspects later on but this is just a perfect start for me. Thanks and appreciate your good work.
By SriDeviPrasad on 4/11/2020
IT WAS VERY GOOD .A GOOD EXPERIENCE FOR ME
By Todd Rimes on 12/27/2019
Really great stuff. The examples move at just the right pace and I learned so many things I didn't even know Garage Band _can_ do beyond how to do what I knew it could!
By Amy Wantulok on 6/28/2019
Great course! I highly recommend it!
By Eibur Manuel on 12/20/2018
I'm using an iphone and I had a little bit of trouble following but I stopped the tape and was able to find the functions. It wasn't a big problem.
By Archana Brandenburg on 11/28/2018
I've been using Garageband for a little while but without any training or tutorials. Now I've been watching this for only 15 minutes and I am already a whole lot wiser!
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