GarageBand+Does+It+All


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 * GARAGEBAND DOES IT ALL! ** (Dr. Scott Watson)

**GarageBand is an easy-to-learn, musical workhorse with many great uses for music teachers and their students. What's more, it's lots of fun!** Even for students with limited musical training this entry level digital audio workstation brings in reach some **meaningful creative activities**: all sorts of composing, arranging and improvising projects; multi-track music production; podcasts that can replace traditional reports; and music/sound effect underscoring for audiobook, video, or gaming. Teachers can use GarageBand to make **quality recordings** of individuals or ensembles, to **demonstrate musical concepts** (i.e. form, dynamics, articulation, tempo, and texture), or to **prepare sound clips** for teaching media (PowerPoint, webpage, wiki, etc.). GarageBand does all this and much more, explaining why many music teachers name this program the technology tool they use most!

In this course for general, vocal/choral, and instrumental music teachers at all levels, **we’ll explore and experience the many uses for Apple’s GarageBand, including an examination of the many new features/functions that come with the most recent version of the program (GarageBand 10).** The course will be taught in a Mac lab using GarageBand (although Windows-users should be able to take away many ideas for use with their own equivalent PC software such as Mixcraft).


 * Major Learning Objectives **

1. Present the basic features of the program including real time multi-track audio and MIDI (software instrument) recording, use of audio and midi loops, LCD (transport controls), the piano roll and score views, and MIDI file import. 2. Present basic editing features (cut, copy, paste, drag, lengthen) and step entry of notes. 3. Employ intermediate multi-track recording features such as Digital Signal Processing (“Smart Controls”: reverb, echo, compression, EQ, etc.), automated volume/panning, and step entry/editing of controllers such as modulation, pitch bend. 4. Share how to create multimedia-rich projects (audio and video podcasts, videos with underscoring) using //GarageBand//’s built-in tools for importing audio (music, loops, sound effects), pictures, and movies. 5. Share fun, effective pedagogical applications in classroom/general, vocal/choral and instrumental music for //GarageBand//’s many features. 6. Discuss how to put //GarageBand// to work for teachers in all areas of music education as a helpful teaching tool. 7. Share and discuss strategies for using //GarageBand// in a lab, small computer cluster and the single-computer classroom. 8. Share and discuss ways to assess student creative projects completed using //GarageBand//.


 * Course Outcomes: **

Participants in this course will be able to…

1. Learn to produce music and assemble multimedia projects (podcast, score for a short video) with GarageBand. 2. Learn how to integrate //GarageBand// projects into the K-12 music curriculum, aligned to the National Standards for Music Education. 3. Learn to use features of //GarageBand// software to accomplish a variety of instructional tasks. 4. Design helpful, effective assessment tools for use with projects created with //GarageBand//.


 * Contacting Me **

Before, during, and after the course, participants are encouraged to use email to contact the instructor: **watsons@parklandsd.org** or **drscottwatson@gmail.com**.

Lab Activities & Projects: 60%
 * Grading (assumes 100% attendance): **

Quizzes (Includes Pre-Course Assignment, if any): 20% Final Project: 20%

Attendance: For one-week courses, a one letter grade penalty for each 1/2 class missed.


 * COURSE WIKI: **
 * http://watsonmusic.wikispaces.com/GarageBand **

This site includes links to great online GarageBand guides (to reference in addition to this coursepack) and files to download for use in the course.