Creative Projects With GarageBand Online Course
About this Course
Discover a series of creative GarageBand projects you can use with your middle school students. By the end of this course you will know how to incorporate GarageBand into your existing music curriculum through student projects that involve arranging and composing with loops, recording original material, making backing tracks, scoring films and digital storytelling.
You will be walked through each project step-by-step so you can use it with your students straight away.
Course Format
This course is available when you join the Midnight Music Community. Membership to the Midnight Music Community gives you access to this course, and 11 other online courses, plus lesson plans, help and advice.
Course Outline
The Creative Projects with GarageBand Online course will cover a range of skills, including the following:
GarageBand skills covered include the following:
- how to start a new project
- changing project settings
- learn how to navigate the loop browser
- create your own original loops and add them to your content library
- add new tracks
- change instrument sounds
- record from a MIDI keyboard or the Musical Typing window
- edit MIDI parts
- share your music
GarageBand skills include:
Skills covered:
- importing MIDI files
- editing loops
- beat-mapping audio loops
- saving loops into the library
- layering
- selecting and changing instruments
- adding effects
- fade-ins and fade-outs
- volume and panning envelopes
- using notation
- mixing skills
- saving and exporting projects
Skills covered:
- importing a video
- playback and some shortcuts
- all about snapping and when to use it
- the importance of zooming
- searching for and adding sound effects
- using hit points/time markers to place sound effects accurately
- creating and editing sound effects
- adding background music by using existing loops
- how to scrub through your video frame by frame
- how to add a software instrument track
- how to select and edit different sounds
- how to record MIDI
- how to edit MIDI recordings
- how to transpose
- using volume envelopes to create fade-ins and fade-outs
- muting and soloing tracks
- Tips for recording narration in a busy classroom
- how to edit mistakes
- how to add intro and outro music
- how to create fade-ins and outs
- how to add artwork, images and links
- how to export and share your finished creation
- Ways you can expand your content library: places to find free and legal music and loops
*Midnight Music reserves the right to alter course content when necessary.