GarageBand 3 Tutorial Finder

Apple iLife '06 Multimedia Tutorials

Apple have created a great tutorial site for iLife '06 and in particular GarageBand 3. You can find help from Creating your first GarageBand project to more complex tutorials like Scorings Movies, and publishing your own podcasts.

GarageBand 3 Help Menu

Apple seem to have gone a lot further with their help and support for this iteration of GarageBand than they have done previously. GarageBand 3 has a pretty comprehensive help menu - Help > GarageBand Help.

Need help with GarageBand?

So if you get stuck with GarageBand 3, try the built-in help menu, check out Apple's iLife '06 Multimedia Tutorials, visit GarageBand Master or ask for help in the Macidol GarageBand Forums - GarageBand Tips and Tricks or the GarageBand General Discussion.

Apple GarageBand Seminar

Making music on the Mac with GarageBand

Making music on the Mac with GarageBand is a Apple Online Seminar and consists of three Quicktime video tutorials, which will help you get to grips with GarageBand and Apple Jam Packs.

Registration is free and you can then join Eric Thomas, Apple audio marketing manager and John Danty, Apple product marketing manager for GarageBand and GarageBand Jam Packs, as they provide an in-depth tour of GarageBand.

Great for Beginners

The seminar is a great introduction to GarageBand. If you are new to the app, this is a great first step towards becoming a GarageBand Master. I would suggest watching through all 3 videos and finding out what GarageBand is capable of. Then fire up GarageBand and start making some music. A good book can sometimes prove invaluable too, but you can also find some useful help in our GarageBand Tips, and GarageBand Discussion forums and of course by Googling.

GarageBand Hardware and Software Tour

The first video introduces you to the basics of what Apple GarageBand can do. Using what looks like the GarageBand Gibson Semi. Apple's dynamic duo then show you how to hook up your axe to your Mac using a Monster iStudio Link Guitar adapter. They said it would work with any Mac, but the Mac mini (currently) does not have an audio input, so you would need some kind of USB or Firewire interface to plug your guitar into your Mac mini. This is a great all-round introduction to GarageBand.

GarageBand Tips and Tricks

This video shows you some of the cool things you can do using GarageBand. Like fixing timing, tuning and will even show you how to get that "Cher" autotune style effect. It will also show you how to create harmonies with the vocal transformer, which is neat if you haven't seen that before. It explores AU plug-ins, and shows you how to make your own Apple loops.

They also show the Maudio iControl, which is really worth watching if you haven't seen this before.

Extending GarageBand with Jam Packs

More of a marketing experience than anything else, but it still is a useful visual and audio experience, if you want to see what each of the four (current) Apple Jam Packs can do. It also shows the Logic/GarageBand connection too, which is quite interesting.

Conclusion

A great introduction to Making music on the Mac with GarageBand - Beginners start here.

Sign Up to the Apple GarageBand Seminar and learn for your self.

Many thanks to Paul Brazier for introducing us to these Free seminars