Garageband tutorial 1: Making a jingle
Here’s a quick guide to making a simple jingle. Udemy’s Garageband Tutorial: A Beginner’s Guide to Garageband is here And here are even more!
Creating Jingles in Garage band
Create jingles in garageband Open up GarageBand by clicking on the guitar icon form your dock or finding it in Applications. Click on “Loops” and press choose. Name your file and save it somewhere where you will be able to find it again in future, then click “Create” Spend some time listening…
Audacity Tutorial 2
Audacity is free software for Mac or PC, it doesn’t have all the functionality of Garage Band but the end result is just as good. Download it from http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/. Open it up on your desktop, click the red circle to record and start talking, click the yellow square when you have finished. You can improve…
Pre-records and podcasts tutorial
This is a blog post about producing a podcast, you can use all of the tips and ideas when producing pre-recorded content for your show. LEARNING OBJECTIVES At the end of this section you will be able to: Say what a podcast is. List the equipment you need to make a podcast. Explain how…
Music by someone you’ve heard of
All this licence-free public domain and Creative Commons music is great but sometimes you want to play something a bit more “commercial”. Fear not, here’s a list of better known bands, artists, tracks and albums which have been published with Creative Commons licences. Again, remember to check the small print! Nine Inch Nails actively encourage…
Useful links – creative commons and license free music
The Internet Archive has a huge section for community music http://archive.org/details/audio most of which is public domain or share alike by attribution. Check each file for details. They also have http://archive.org/details/netlabels which is a collection designed for streaming on internet radio or editing to make backing tracks. The public domain review has lots of useful information about finding…
Public Domain Music
There is a very good site called public domain review which explains everything you need to know about finding music which is in the public domain. “Works in the public domain are those whose intellectual property rights have expired, have been forfeited, or are inapplicable. Examples include the works of Shakespeare and Beethoven, The King James Bible, most of the early silent films, the formulae of Newtonian physics,…
Frank Nora
Lots of music here which can be used as you like. http://mcs.franknora.com/ is “55 hours of public domain music you can use any way you want, with no strings attached.”
Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie dedicated his work to the public domain so you are free to use, re-use, edit and re-purpose his music as you wish. “This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good…
Useful links – Jingles, Loops and Stings
How to make your own sound effects http://pinterest.com/sfxninja/i-see-sound-effects/ Royalty free and Creative Commons music http://pinterest.com/angelarees/license-free-creative-commons-music/ Also check out http://www.opsound.org/index.php
Audacity Tutorial 1: Voice Recordings
Radioanywhere have produced a series of simple tutorials. Follow the link below for one on voice recording using Audacity. Audacity Voice Tutorial Audacity is free, open source recording software for Windows, Linux or Mac and can be downloaded here.
