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Quick Start
Recording Audio in GarageBand
Tips for Recording Text Passages
The following are some suggestions for recording the reading of text passages:
Practice reading the text to become comfortable with the material, enliven your •
recording, and reduce reading errors that would require re-recording the material.
Be expressive when reading. Varying word emphasis and changing your tone while •
reading adds emotion and life to the text. Avoid reading in a monotone.
Pay attention to punctuation. Commas indicate a brief pause and periods a complete •
stop.
Stand up when recording audio to project your voice more eectively. •
Clearly enunciate your words. •
Pace yourself. Read a bit more slowly than you normally would. (Reading text at a •
natural speaking pace often sounds too fast in a recording.)
Don’t stand too close to the mic. Your P, S, and T percussive sounds tend to pop or hiss •
in a microphone. Adding a mic lter can also help reduce this eect.
GarageBand provides many features found in expensive, professional recording programs,
and it’s included with every Mac. Continue to explore ways that GarageBand can help
breathe life into classroom presentations and preserve special events for the enjoyment of
future generations of students.
Next Steps
Now that you’ve gotten started with GarageBand, you’re ready to use it with your lessons
to enhance teaching and learning. The additional activity ideas that are included here
suggest a few more of the ways you can use GarageBand with your students. When you
want to gain further skills in using the software to implement these and other activities,
you can use the resources listed in “Learn More,” below.
Learn More
The following are some of the resources you can use to nd out more about using
GarageBand.
Help
When you’re working in GarageBand, onscreen help is available at any time by choosing
Help > GarageBand Help. Choose Help > Getting Started PDF to open an introductory
how-to guide for using GarageBand.
Video Tutorials
For a collection of tutorials about using GarageBand, go to www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials
or choose Help > Video Tutorials when GarageBand is open.
Apple Media Series
iLife ’08 in the Classroom, part of the Apple Media Series, provides how-to videos and
step-by-step guides for learning how to use GarageBand and the other applications in
the iLife suite. iLife ’08 in the Classroom, available at an aordable cost to individuals and
schools, guides you through what students could produce with each application.
www.apple.com/education/k12/applemediaseries