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Here are some notes about how to use GarageBand to record yourself with a backing track
Quick Help
If you click the Quick Help button at the top left (the icon is a question mark) a popup window will appear which tells you about the screen areas and controls that the cursor is hovering over.
Create a new project
Close any existing GarageBand project you have open (File > Close).
A window pops up with possible project types.
Select “Empty Project” and press “Choose”
Select “Record using a microphone or line input” and press “Create”
You should see the main GarageBand screen with one track created (“Audio 1”)
Add a backing track to the Project
Find the backing track file in File Manager
Copy
Return to GarageBand and position the...
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The modern digital era has made necessary for anyone on the Internet to acquire at least a minimum of photographic skills in order to be able to use pictures for a number of purposes on the web.
Of course we all know the old proverb: “ A picture is worth a thousand words “ so, in many ways taking pictures helps anyone to better describe anything also when attempting to ask for information on something that we are trying to identify or perhaps sell.
While in order to pursue this goal it is not necessary, for most of us, to become an accomplished photographer and acquire backgrounds, studio lights or an expensive camera to make what we want to show particularly “ beautiful”, it is at lest desirable that we can, at the very least...
Hi,
I know there are the odd articles regards sending Saxophones, but none show you what I feel is the safest way to post one to avoid any damage in transit. Please remember poor packaging is the foremost cause of damage to instruments in their cases whilst in transit.
Especially when they are old because the cases can be worn, the majority are ill fitting and allow too much movement inside.
We have been selling musical instruments for a while and sold a lot of Saxes, We always pack them in this manner and have never had one instrument damaged in transit- even by the worst known couriers.
So here is our personal step by step guide with photos.
We hope it is useful to you
Before packing a Saxophone always make sure you plug the...
Obviously we often use the words tone & sound interchangeably, but when you are learning an instrument like the saxophone, it’s very useful to consider them separately.
Tone: you can think of this as the “raw” unprocessed sound of your saxophone.
Sound: this is the end result after you have used your technique as a musician to manipulate the tone into something that can be more personal or expressive via techniques such as vibrato and dynamics.
We tend to associate tone with expression, and sometimes confuse the two. Even the word “tone” is confusing. It can be used to mean the sound you get when you merely blow down the saxophone without adding anything extra, or it can mean the sound you get after you have applied various...
Who is this for and what do you need?
This is for anyone who wants to make recordings of their playing (or singing) along with basic backing tracks. This isn't meant to be an advanced or even complete tutorial on mixing, and I will be looking at a typical scenario:
Backing tracks from an audio file (e.g. Aebersold) or self generated using Band in a Box or iReal Pro.
A single recorded track of your saxophone playing (or other instrument/vocal). As the article is about mixing, we assume you have already recorded this. If not then you can download the tutorial tracks supplied which consist of a backing track and a saxophone track.
I will be concentrating on Audacity as the audio application as it is very popular. Loads of people use...
Using Logic’s Score Editor
To view the full score choose screenset 3. You can view one sequence only in the score window by double clicking on it’s staff. Click on the black square (top left) to view the entire score again. The same process applies to other editors, e.g. in the event list you will either see a list of sequences or the contents of one sequence. Double click on a sequence in the list to display the contents, click on black square to see the list (see: link mode). There are various ways of viewing only one track instead of the whole score: 1) mute all the other tracks (not very efficient as they have to be muted in the arrange window) 2) Double click on the track (see above). 3) create instrument set with just one...
I have done a bit of transcribing and use Transcribe ! software which is brilliant in every way. It helps me enormously.
My sense of relative pitch and my ability to translate rhythms from their sound to their notation and vice versa are not good at all, but I think it is worthwhile trying to get every aspect of the transcription right (key, harmony, pitches, rhythms, articulations and effects). You can always go back and refine your transcription later on.
Here is a rough outline of my transcribing process (I use Transcribe! and Sibelius simultaneously open), but you can do it onto paper or whatever you want.
Get the version of the tune that you want to transcribe (er, obviously !) - that might mean capturing it from YouTube or...
I don't know if this will help or hinder people trying to use Audacity, but here is a photo list of how to do it.
First open Audacity, then go to File in the top left hand corner
Then drop down to Import and slide across to Audio
Now you need to know where your backing tracks are stored. As you can see, mine are in My Music (Windows 7)
Then you wait for the track to be imported. Once you hit the record button, another "empty" track will open underneath your imported track. As you play, you can see the blue sound wave appear as you play.
You can now adjust the volume levels of each track by looking to the left of the selected track and moving the volume slider left or right. By going to the menu at the top of the screen, you...
As a veteran of more function gigs than I care to remember me and my merry men (and ladies) have fallen foul of a wide array of things that can potentially go wrong, misunderstandings and the like. In the spirit of making our shows run smoothly, and in conjunction with my work colleagues here at sax.co, I’ve devised a letter which we now send out with our booking to try and head off some of the more predicable pitfalls. Feel free to use/modify/ comment for your own projects….
Thank you for your booking. To ensure your event runs smoothly on the day we
would ask you for the following provisions-
-Vehicle parking for up to 3 vehicles within easy access of the playing area (we travel reasonably light but drum kit and keys can be quite...
I’ve only been playing the sax since November 2004 when my lovely wife bought me an alto, supposedly for Christmas. Well, we got it home and she let me have it there and then! (The saxophone that is!) After around an hour, I could do a bad rendition of several very well known tunes, not in time and not in the right key for that matter!
My idea of practicing (probably not recommended by the highly disciplined Mr Thomas) is to turn on my computer, find itunes, and work my way through the myriad of musical treats that I have saved on my hard drive, until I find something that sound like its in the right key and to try to play along until I feel like I’m really contributing to the piece. In this vein, I’ve played with some of the best...
Now this is something I know a lot about as I work for a parcel-carrying company both as a driver and a trailer loader. In the past I have worked for other parcel carriers as a trunker driver and general dogsbody.
My advice? Unless you feel lucky, take it yourself! :devil::devil::devil:
More seriously. Parcel companies are much the same, only the price differs. No one is deliberately going to destroy your parcel (I suppose there are exceptions, but rarely). Most damage is caused accidentally at the depot or hub by occasional dodgy handling or by something heavier falling on a parcel (more likely).
Companies like ParceltoGo, 3B, Interparcel etc. have no transport of their own and use their bulk-buying power to get a decent rate from...