General Intro - Lesson 1

Welcome to Room 402.

• General behavior and computer care guidelines
• General outline of investigations for the coming months
• Create a personal folder each login
• Overview of iBook and the Mac desktop: (on, shutdown, trash, folders, software shortcuts, "Go home")
  

Keyboarding

Use "Type to Learn" for keyboarding skills

• Plug in and put on earphones
  
• Click on the Type to Learn icon in the menu bar on the left of the window
• Write first and last names in the space provided to enroll
  
• Click OK
• Click on Lesson 1, and begin lesson
• Remain mindful of good posture, and the goal of accuracy, rather than speed

Making Music with GarageBand

Using GarageBand to create music

Students will use GarageBand, an application in our iBooks, to create music.

Students will demonstrate:

• familiarity with the software program
• ability to create two tracks (minimum)
• ability to save their work appropriately
• ability to move the work into an mp3 format
  
• ability to use their music to enhance their other digital creations

The process of this project moves through the following steps:

Part 1

1. Using Appleworks Paint, students will create simple shape and color patterns as "rhythm sentences", and then perform them.
2. Opening GarageBand, students will become familiar with the software's interface and tools: The menu bar across the top of the screen, the shortcut bar across the bottom, and the small commands in each track line.
   
3. Using GarageBand, students will create a new work, using the Midi Drum Kit instruments to create sound patterns. Students will use the qwerty keyboard to explore the many sounds available in the Drum Kit, exploring pattern and how to use the functions available in Garage Band.

Part 2
Creating "Software" and "Real" instruments
Part 3
Using the loops library
Part 4
Cutting and editing tracks
Part 5
Sharing to iTunes and exporting as MP3 files

Further resources are available at
http://www.creatingmusic.com/ - use Rhythm Band to explore pattern and sound

http://www.nyphilkids.org/main.phtml? - use Percussion Showdown

Basic howto guide for Garage Band

http://www.apple.com/support/garageband/
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/04/20/garageband.html

http://www.mrob.com/garageband/ Advanced help
Audio import and output help

The Rhythm Track

Go to this page on the Futures Channel web site. and watch the 6 minute video of drummer Ndugu Chancler talking about rhythm.

Remember this video when you work with GarageBand.

The Futures Channel is from the USA, "with the goal of using new media technologies to create a channel between the scientists, engineers, explorers and visionaries who are shaping the future, and today’s learners who will one day succeed them."