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Test Drive (mp3 Of My First Apple Garageband Experiment)

Last year when I bought this handy dandy Apple laptop, good for lotsa stuff, this was one of the first things I did on it.  I plugged a condenser mic into the powerbook, but since I had absolutely no idea what I was doing, I was actually recording through this little hole in the upper left corner of the laptop–the built-in mic.  Doesn’t sound too bad, actually, with a little reverb and the double vocal. 

This is only a partial song idea.  Anyone want to finish it?  I could send you the original garageband file if you’d like. 

In the process of learning a little bit of garageband (not to be confused with garageband.com–Apple has a license to use the same name), I layered and stripped apart some of the canned loops, added a little living room armchair percussion (I did this entire thing from my rocking chair), and added the vocals.  In the process, I captured my little Jakey yackin’ and the grandfather clock chiming in tune with the song.  Too fun.