GarageBand: create and edit your own music

City Lit

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£ 179 VAT inc.

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Description

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    Course

  • Location

    London

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Use Apple's fabulously simple but powerful Garageband software (included with all Macs) to help you realise your musical ideas. Record using a microphone and/or instruments and using a musical MIDI keyboard to play in (notate) musical ideas. Edit your tracks with easy-to-use tools in order to create a polished final product. Tutor: Max Lavilla.

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London
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Keeley Street, Covent Garden, WC2B 4BA

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About this course

- Build a track from a variety of instruments and recordings- Play in musical ideas using a MIDI keyboard and Garageband's realistic software instruments- Edit this MIDI information to correct mistakes in playing and create ideas from scratch- Record and import audio into Garageband- Perform basic corrective audio editing- Perform a basic mix with attention to sound balance and stereo position- Burn your composition onto a CD.

Notepad, pen, own memory stick/storage device for saving work.

Classes will generally begin with a demonstration and discussion followed by practical work.You will work on an individual Mac workstation to practise set themes, techniques and skills, applying these to your developing ideas and material.You will present your work in progress regularly to the group and receive feedback, support and encouragement from your tutor throughout the course.It is useful to have access to a Mac outside class to work on your project between sessions. Macs are available in City Lit's Supported Learning Centre.

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Subjects

  • Midi
  • Music
  • Musical

Course programme

- Building a track from a variety of instruments and recordings
- Playing in musical ideas using a MIDI keyboard and Garageband's realistic software instruments
- MIDI editing to correct mistakes in playing or to create ideas from scratch
- Recording and importing audio into Garageband
- Basic corrective audio editing
- Basic mixing with attention to sound balance and stereo position
- Burning your composition onto a CD.

Additional information


You may wish to move on to:
- Apple's Logic software, the professional 'big brother' to GarageBand
- develop your skills in Mixing, music production and mastering further
- get into live electronics through Ableton Live, Sonic Arts, Max/MSP or Arduino workshops
- develop specialist skills through Vocal Recording Techniques or Music for film, TV and animation
Go to the Music Technology and Digital Audio Production page to see the full range of courses. For advice email the music office or phone us on (020) 7492 2630
The Music department also offers a wide range of instrumental, singing, ensemble and musicianship courses.

General information and advice on courses at City Lit is available from the Student Centre and Library on Monday to Friday from 12:00 – 19:00.
See the course guide for term dates and further details

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GarageBand: create and edit your own music

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