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So, I have been sitting on my ass and not writing music for my friend NOLA Andy’s movie.<\/p>\n

I have no excuse. Well, I am kind of hesitant to dive in with technologies. I did some music some months back with Tim<\/a>, where we were recording on a PC using Ableton<\/a>, a piece of software that completely baffled me. (Tim did all the recording tech stuff.)<\/p>\n

Now that the Splotchy household has a Macbook laptop, I thought I’d check out some software that came with it — GarageBand<\/a>. So, I finally got around to fiddling with it (did I mention that I am also a notorious procrastinator?).<\/p>\n

It’s a lot of fun to play around with stuff in GarageBand, and the application is pretty darned intuitive to use. I was able to use the built-in mic to record several acoustic guitar parts very easily — I’m sure some audiosnob would scoff at my using the built-in mic, but it didn’t sound bad to me. I ran the guitars through some filters, added a drumbeat and some handclaps, and voil\u00e0! Instant song!<\/p>\n

Here’s what I did, if you wanna hear — it’s only a little over two minutes. I recorded the song with the intent of it being used for Andy’s soundtrack — something with a nice beat but which also wouldn’t overwhelm any accompanying visuals.<\/p>\n

It’s in M4A (iTunes) format — apologies in advance if you’re lookin’ for an MP3.<\/p>\n

Splotchy – Da Da Da Dah Dah<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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