Music is one of my most favorite pastimes, I listen to music in my free time and play bass guitar in multiple bands. So I was quite excited when are latest Maker project had us using garage band to make and remix songs. I was a bit nervous at first as I had never actually produced my own music aside from a few pieces for video projects in the past but we have been getting a lot of guides to help understand how to do it. 

I was never that into garage band and it took me till now to fully understand how it works. We took some time out of one of our classes to try and understand what garage band was and how we could best use it for our projects. 

The main focus was not on the normal instruments section but instead on the loops part. In the loops part you could find pre made parts from a variety of different genres and instruments that you could use the create your own music. 

The loops I used

I decided to try and use the “chill” section of loops to create something. I brought in a different drumming part and played around a bit to try and get a feel of everything before I went to record the full version. When I finished recording for a few minuets I put the song into I movie so I could upload it to YouTube. 

The final version had a slow build and I think that I could have done a bit more to work on mixing in my own loops as well as trying to make it sound a bit nicer and more professional. But I’ll just have to use those critiques in my next piece which which will be a remix of an already existing song.