GarageBand is easy to use, feature rich and affordable, making it a perfect compositional tool for aspiring songwriters. In this three part tutorial, I’d like to show you how to develop your guitar riffs and chord progressions into fully fledged song demos using GarageBand’s built in tools. In this first part, we’ll cover some basic orientation and get started on developing some ideas.

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This is the second of a series of tutorials covering the basics of song demo production in Apple’s GarageBand. The aim of these tutorials is to show you the basics of recording your own song demos, covering the elements of the creative process as well as how to use the software.

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