what's up guys so how did this all begin about a year ago I was creating some
travel vlogs and as I started editing them I realized something any music and
I almost considered buying it that's when I began making my own music and I
said well this is would be something that would be really great to share with
others there are some excellent vloggers out there and some that use music and
sound beautifully peter mckinnon is one of my favorites his music is awesome
it's positive it's uplifting it builds energy and there's always this awesome
beat drop that goes into his incredible cinematography Peter uses epidemic sound
that's a sight that allows you to license music based on how many views
you get but there's another way creating your own all you need is an iPad install
GarageBand which is free and it's gonna be super easy so I'm gonna show you
today how to create vlog music in the style of Peter mckinnon's now if you get
stuck don't worry I'm posting a link to this entire GarageBand project down in
the description below alright so I'm doing this on the iPad but you can also
do this on the iPhone so we're going to start with a brand new song just hit the
plus sign at the top right and make sure you're on live loops at the top in the
middle you have the choice of either starting with tracks or live loops make
sure you're starting with live loops and you're gonna click new from here all
we're going to do is start layering instruments layering loops let's first
set the tempo hit the wrench icon at the top right we're going to set our tempo
at 130 and the first thing we're gonna add is a beat so click on the plus sign
on the left hit loops and you can actually filter this list by instruments
click on instruments click on all drums and now I want you to look for the beat
called full-on beat there's full-on beat drag
this over to the first cell on the first call we wanted to listen to it you just
click on that now we're just going to layer a few more instruments click on
the next row the plus sign click on the again under instruments this time filter
on electric piano and we're looking for true love electric piano we're going to
drag that to the next row now we're gonna add a synth the synth is called
against time keys so filter by synths against time keys there it is drag that
over next then we're gonna add bass and the bass we're looking for is called
diesel power sup there it is drag that over and we've pretty much got our verse
done let's listen to what it sounds like if you click the arrow at the bottom of
that column plays all the loops at once let's press that now we're gonna add our
core first we're going to add our chorus beat and we're gonna add this not as a
loop but as an instrument so instead of clicking loops this time you're gonna
click on instruments and we're going to look for the drummer there's drums and
then there's drummer so choose drummer and click on electronic and we're gonna
look for the drummer named Jasper and we're gonna choose Jasper's beat called
full stop and on the left side I'm going to move that dot between loud and
complex we're going to take down the fills down to about there close to the
edge of the snare drum that you see in the picture and that's it so now we've
got Jasper strums let's go back to the grid at the top left so we're gonna add
another loop we're gonna add the synth called anthem fever synth and I'm just
gonna put that already into that third column the bass this time is called
bliss abyss synth bass number 2 drag that down there let's move that poor
speed if you click the bottom left where you have to little hike on that looks
like a grid with a pencil on it click that and now you can move around your
loops move that Jasper drum over to the third column I want to put a riser in
there what the risers gonna do is it's gonna build up energy between our verse
and our course click on the plus button there click on loops again and this time
we're gonna do a search and we're going to type in a riser and then at the
bottom we're looking for the dubstep riser effects
this is 0-3 there it is I'm gonna drag this over to our middle column right
there let's cut it in half so if you actually click on the edit go to the
riser click on settings and we're gonna change the length to one beat there you
go oh by the way let's let's listen to what
that core sounds like sounds okay but we're missing a few things I want to
actually bring in the electric piano that we had and the beat that we had in
our verse over to the chorus as well so this one we're gonna copy you a copy
that beat from the verse to the chorus and I'm gonna copy the electric piano
we're also gonna copy the synth over to our court let's hear what our chorus
sounds like now
we're gonna fix the levels a little bit now so let's open up your mixture at the
left and we're going to just adjust these a little bit
the only thing I feel like is missing now is like a little melody right so
when you have the first going on it's just missing a little something
all right so we've only added loops up until now but what I'm gonna do is
actually add a little melody with an instrument so when I hit the plus button
instead of hitting loops this time I'm going to go to instruments and we're
gonna choose from keyboards we're gonna choose alchemy synth we're gonna choose
the sound called shimmering bells they're shimmering bells and now we're
gonna play just a really really simple melody
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so now what we're going to do is trigger these loops as a whole song click the
record button here we just have the electric pianos playing excessive the
other instruments hit the riser almost forgetting to the chorus here we go
now you can export the song just go to my songs there's a song we just created
hold that down click on share click on song usually at this point what I do is
I just airdrop the song over to my Mac where I'm going to be doing my video
editing and add it to my vlog and that's it you can apply this tutorial to any
type of music in any genre make it your own your vlogs are your way of telling
your story be creative make the music that you love hey if you get really good
at this you can actually sell your vlog music on epidemic sound or tons of other
sites that do the same thing if you like this video hit that like button and
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