Mad Max - Creating the sound of joy with GarageBand

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Step 1

 * 1. Pick four notes
 * Start a new project file in GarageBand and add four short notes of a bell sound.


 * In the pop quiz, you determined which bell and which pitch is the most enjoyable. Now you pick four notes at random and put them on a track so they play in just one second.


 * Note: Once you have created the project with your four note, you can easily adjust the velocity of the notes.  I prefer to have each of the notes with a different velocity.


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Step 2
One of the options in GarageBand is to drag the region so it repeats itself. We need about four seconds of these tiny bell sounds.
 * 2. Repeat the notes

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 * 3. Send me your results
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More advanced Techniques
In the exercise above, you used on only one track in GarageBand. If you wish, you can try to create additional tracks to enhance your sound of joy.

Option 1 · Add other voices
The tiny bells give you a feeling of joy. You can enhance this with other sounds. The easiest is to add another instruments playing the same notes very slowly while the bells play in the background.

Option 2 · Add an audio sound effect
Programs like GarageBand allow you to mix music with ordinary audio files (sound effects from a sound effect library.) Pick a fearful sound effect and combine it with your bells. Perhaps the chirping of a bird.

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The Next Page

 * Once you have sent me your project file for creating the "Sound of Fear" using a violin trill, you can try to create other moods using only a single note with GarageBand and Jam Pack : Symphony Orchestra.
 * Creating additional moods for motion pictures with individual notes

Contact Your Instructor

 * Let me know when you are done or if you have problems Robert Elliott. To email me, you simply @undefined.  [[Image:Crystal Clear app xfmail.png|32px]]


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