Welcome to GarageBand for iPadBy Kristen Bergersen & Louise Rance

Technology in music education provides teachers and students with amazing resources and platforms to create in the music classroom. Making music lessons relevant to students through technology makes music in schools accessible and engaging.  This website contains interactive tutorials for GarageBand on iPad. These tutorials are specifically designed for a secondary school music classroom setting and take approximately 15 minutes to complete. The three musical experiences of Performing, Composing and Listening are all integrated throughout the tutorials.  Each tutorial explores a specific skill or feature in GarageBand and is approximately 8-10 steps. Each step is repeatable and includes a short video which displays each action.Students working through the tutorials will be encouraged to create something with the skills they learn, however teachers can create their own activities based off the tutorial material. Hopefully this is a simple way to make music technology accessible in the classroom and engages students in a composition activity. Move to the next page for links to all of the tutorials.  Enjoy!

Add Effects to Instruments and Tracks 

Create a String Part with Smart Strings

Add more Chord options

Working with Loops 

Save Your Song to GoogleDrive

Create a Guitar Part with Smart Guitar

Play the Alchemy Synth

Build Your Song 

Create a Drum Groove

Create a Drum Groove with Touch Drums 

Record a Track

Create a Piano/Keys Part with Smart Piano

Refine your Recording with Edit Mode

Start a Project 

Publish Your Song

Create a Bassline with Smart Bass

Create a Complete Drum Performance with Drummer

GarageBand for iPadBy Kristen Bergersen & Louise Rance