Central Learning Centre/ Garageband Training

Today, our media class had a trip to the Central Learning Centre in Enfield to learn how to use the Garage Band programme on the Apple Mac computers. As we are not allowed to use music from other artists for our music video due to copy write purposes, we have to try and produce a song of our own by using the Garage Band programme. The Central Enfield City Learning Centre gave us a comfortable atmosphere for us to be able to advance our portfolios by using the latest developments of the software that has been released. We learnt how to:

- Create new songs.
- Record our own instruments.
- Search through different loops and apply pre-recorded loops of different instruments.
- Arrange and mix songs and loops.
- Change certain characteristics of the loops.
- Apply, or record singing.

Here is an example of what the Garage Band programme looks like.

During the tutorial of Garage Band, my group learnt additional information of our chosen genre, ‘Pop’. The tutor gave us a few facts about the choruses and versus. He made it clear that the chorus is the ‘sing along’ part of the song whilst the verse is the ‘story’. The chorus usually repeats itself many times and the melody and the lyrics are exactly the same, however depending on the song they may change slightly. Whereas the verse tends to change all the time as it tells the story. With the verse, it changes every time and the melody stays the same as the story progresses. Relating this to Pop music, there are other parts to this genre of music for example: the intro, the bridge and the outro. The tutor also reinforced us that Pop music in particular usually has a strong beat and follows the 4/4 time signature.