Comments on: Apple GarageBand Artist Lessons Still Limited, But Alternatives Abound

By: Create Digital Music » Scores, the New MP3s? Sheet Music Sales Online for Artists

Tue, 19 May 2009 22:32:24 +0000

[...] dropped the ball on the whole idea; there’s been a lot of discussion about the fact that their GarageBand Lessons have been too few to make any real impact. But that shouldn’t stop other outlets from getting in [...]

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By: The Music Store Apple Forgot About

The Music Store Apple Forgot About — Sat, 16 May 2009 15:11:37 +0000

[...] quite. Since January there has been exactly one update, which introduced a whopping three new artist lessons, bringing the grand total to 13. Given how varied musical tastes are, I’d be surprised if any [...]

By: Apoclypse

Apoclypse — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:19:36 +0000

I woudl be cool if a band were to release lessons for their albums. BTW, I would totally be all over Radiohead if they took out a full albums worth of lessons. They also need to get a little more in-depth with the basic lessons, and get more advanced lessosn that aren’t artists lessons.

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[Musicbusiness] Apple open up the GarageBand Lesson store, please! | zHome — Fri, 01 May 2009 02:55:29 +0000

[...] Create Digital Music seems to like the idea to and after being mentioned twice or thrice on Synthtopia i’m glad that i can give something back to @podcasting_news. [...]

By: Michael Moncur

Michael Moncur — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:29:26 +0000

As always, I highly recommend iVideoSongs. Their lessons are very clear and well produced, almost as good as Apple, and over 200 lessons. NowPlayIt is another site that does the same thing.

Both of them have artist videos as well as generic ones from their own staff.

There are also lessons on Youtube from folks like Justin Sandercoe. The big difference is that NowPlayIt and iVideoSongs (and Apple) have licenses to use the song, while the youtube people are just praying that the RIAA won’t take them down.

I had really high hopes for Garageband’s lessons, though. Apple has the star power to get people like Sting and Sara McLachlan, while iVideoSongs is stuck with Art Garfunkel. It’s a shame Apple hasn’t devoted more time to expanding the lesson lineup.

(Really, Apple? You can’t get John Mayer or Jack Johnson? After all you’ve done for them?)

By: Darren Landrum

Darren Landrum — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:28:58 +0000

I’m pretty sure Sarah McLachlan is Canadian:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005214/

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:08:59 +0000

Actually, I think all they would have to do is modify the podcast format / iTunes store metadata to recognize GarageBand project files. Those could in turn be opened in both GarageBand and Logic.

By: spinner

spinner — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:00:18 +0000

While I”m not especially surprised over the choice of artists it is grating that they’re all from the US (yes I know Sting but…).
Third party pods seems like a give, wonder why they haven’t gone for that yet?
Maybe we’ll see a “pod” store soon…

By: synthetic

synthetic — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:10:23 +0000

Guitar Player, Guitar World and Keyboard mag have some great videos on their site for free.