RECORDING A BLUES TUNE

For our blues tune, we're going to cheat a little bit. Rather than build the backing tracks up from scratch, like we did in the previous chapters, we are going to use one of the Apple tutorial songs that came with the iLife DVD to provide our backing band. That way we can concentrate on just recording some vocals over the track.

LOADING “SHUFFLIN' GUITAR BLUES”

Go ahead and dig out the iLife '04 Install DVD so that you can copy the GarageBand demo songs to your hard drive.

If you already copied the songs, you can obviously skip this step.

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Insert the iLife '04 DVD.
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Drag the GarageBand Demo Songs folder to your hard drive. If you are short on hard drive space and don't want to install all of the demos songs, open the ...

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