For beginners: best book to learn Garageband 'll

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For beginners: best book to learn Garageband 'll

Friends in Garagebandland: I'm looking to find the best book/manual to get up to speed on using Garageband '11. I need to relearn Garageband -- it's been years since I used it -- and I used it with 10.2.4 and learned it with the great missing manual for Version 1. There hasn't been a missing manual for Garageband in ages and the new version looks a lot different from what I was used to.

Will you recommend the best book for a non-techie to take advantage of the new Garageband. I did a bunch of sound poems years ago, using stuff I recorded on a tape recorder and the music that came with Garageband. Let me know. Thanks.

Paul Brucker

G4, Mac OS X (10.2.x)

Posted on Apr 14, 2011 8:41 PM

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léonie

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Dec 7, 2012 5:05 PM in response to Paul Brucker

Have you had a look at Edgar Rothermich's pdf-downloads? I find the diagrams and explanations in the book "GarageBand '11, How it Works" very useful and suitable for beginners, see: http://dingdingmusic.com/DingDing/GB11.html

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Apr 17, 2011 8:13 AM in response to Paul Brucker

I should add, if you go to the GarageBand help menu and select GarageBand Help, you're presented with a series of lessons and tutorials that serves as a kind of how-to book in and of itself.

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Apr 16, 2011 9:51 PM in response to Paul Brucker

There seems to be a diminishing interest in publishing books about how to use GB.

You might want to check out the how to video for GB '09 at MacProVideo: http://www.macprovideo.com/tutorial/garageband09101 . If you know how to use that, it's just a matter of brushing up on new features.

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Paul Brucker Author

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Dec 7, 2012 3:56 PM in response to Paul Brucker

Friends in GarageBand land: I'm still looking for that perfect book to help beginners to GarageBand learn GarageBand 11. The suggestion for the book, "GarageBand '11 Power!" -- well, this is not the book. The author is passionate but spends the first 58 pages telling you what he is going to tell you later in the book, so a reader must keep slogging along, not really being told anything, not learning any real how-to tips or new-you-can-use until ... who knows when?

Sadly, this book does not fill the niche for the beginner.

Wish there was a MIssing Manual edition for a later GarageBand issue. I'm picking up how-to tips from various places. The Missing Manual for GarageBand 1.1 was terrific.

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Burgundia

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Apr 20, 2011 10:51 AM in response to Paul Brucker

There's a GB '11 book coming out tomorrow: http://www.amazon.com/GarageBand-Power-Comprehensive-Recording-Podcasting/dp/143 5459628/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

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