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GarageBand is a great tool for students to learn music. Ideally for me  I will  instruct students to click in the Garageband icon which looks like a small guitar at the bottom of the Mac screen. Once open the visual display has a list on the left that give the user or student the options of starting a new project, learning to play a guitar or piano. There is a lesson store where you or your students can learn to play a song from internationally known artists. The Magic Garageband is the feature listed next and that is the one I want ted learn more about because it allowes the student to create songs within the genres of Blues, Rock, Jazz Reggae, Funk, Latin, Slow Blues, Country, and Roots Rock.  There are two more listings.  One is “IPhone” and the other is “Recent Projects”

I wanted to better understand the features of Garageband that would allow my students to create songs from the genre of their choice so I went to Lynda.com.  There I found tutorials about how to create songs using “Magic Garageband.  The Magic Garage band has pictures of instruments positioned within ech geanre selected.  As a performer I can see the extended lesson in why certain instruments should be grouped together.  As presented in the tutorial I realized the ability to change instrumentation adds to the possibility of students learning about timbre. The tutorial explains how to adjust the level of each instrument so each student can mix the loudness of each instruments to fit their personal taste..  Another effect is Magic Garageband can shuffle the instrumentation during the play mode.  I am hoping to make connections to the iLife by Mac.

I am trying to learn many of the great features in my Macbook.  I have recorded and podcast but now I am adding features that my students can use easily. Garageband has a feature called Magic Band it has prerecorded samples of instruments playing genres like Reggae, Rock, Jazz, Blues, and Country.  I learned to add a microphone and add a track for vocals. I sang a few lyrics to show students what they could do.

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