hi this is gary with macmost.com today let me show
you how to turn your iphone into a musical instrument using garageband
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discounts so one fun thing to do with your iphone is to turn it into a musical instrument using the
garageband app now the garageband app you can find in the app store and it's absolutely free and it's
from apple the only downside is it takes up a lot of space on your iphone besides that just get it
and then you can use garageband for all sorts of things like editing audio recording your voice
recording from a guitar or a midi instrument but you could also use it just to turn your iphone's
touch screen into a musical instrument which is fun all by itself so if you selected tracks
instead of live loops here you'll have a series of screens that you could flip through giving you
different ways to interact with garageband now let's start by just using the default one which
is the keyboard in the keyboard we have several different modes here but let's start here with
the second one going to tap that and it's going to give me an on-screen keyboard that i could play
now this is multi-touch so you can touch as many keys as you want at the same time
and one of the problems with this is you only have a limited number of keys
there's not much you can play with just basically two octaves here but if you tap
here you could change to scrolling mode now when you tap and hold you can easily scroll
back and forth with a little practice you could reach all sorts of keys very easily
you could also tap again and change the pitch of the notes now to get back to the instrument
selections tap here once you're there we can try some other things with the keyboard for
instance i could use smart piano which gives me a keyboard looks like this i can then play chords
i can also switch between this and the regular keyboard by tapping there going back again there's
also more sounds here so for instance if i wanted to sound like a classic rock organ right there
so as you can hear the quality of the instrument sounds is pretty good so you can connect your
iphone through the lightning port or audio output to a set of speakers or something else to boost
the volume and they really hold up now let's look at some of the other instruments here we've got
drums and you have several different ways to play the drums to play drums on the screen you want to
use the acoustic drums here and then it gives you a drum set and all you need to do is tap it
to play and you can tap multiple things at the same time
you can also use a beat sequencer to set up things on a grid
and you can use more sounds to set up a different drum kit
and the kit even looks different on the screen there's even electronic sets here
and this is just a series of buttons that you could tap so let's flip through these
some more and see some of the other instruments that we could simulate we've got guitar here and
guitar can be played a few different ways you have a smart guitar you could tap and strum
apply a whole chord by tapping at the top you still have notes
and here you can tap play an individual note you can even bend
and if you tap more sounds you can pick different guitars there's also a bass guitar and you could
do the same smart bass or individual notes and a few other instruments as well that works similar
to the guitar and the bass so you go here to strings for instance and play string instruments
or individual notes we saw there was one here called world
and this allows you to play a few different world instruments
some of these have interesting controls like these down here so you really need to explore
and then you can tap multiple things so
so of course the idea in garageband is that you can record yourself doing this and set
up different tracks and all that's a whole different set of skills and you don't need
to do that to enjoy just using your iphone as an instrument if you're musically inclined and
don't happen to have an instrument with you but want to play around
with some music you can use this if you turn up the volume enough or connect it to an external
speaker or something you can actually play along live with other musicians
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