LoopyLou's Latest Album, Snippets!

Hi everybody...I want to thank everyone who has taken the time to read my blog on the making of my Snippets album. This is going to be my last post on this particular subject. I will have future blogs on the making of my next album so watch out for that in the near future. I want to wrap up by showing you how to convert your GarageBand songs into Mp3s or wav files. It's really simple and it's a must if you plan on distributing your songs online or even on a physical CD/album. What you do is go all the way to the top where it says share and then scroll down to where it says export to disk. Take a look: Once you click on Export To Disk you will see a new screen that allows you to save your songs as either an AAC, MP3,AIFF, or WAVE file. Choose either the MP3 option or the WAVE option. You can keep the medium quality setting that's already there. Now click towards the bottom where it says Export. And your done. Now you can take your songs and distribute them online or make a...

In my album Snippets, there are three songs where I used a live keyboard. I used the iK Multimedia iRig Keys 25 keyboard to record short musical phrases that I turned into loops, adding them to my loop library as well as to the songs 388replace, Dada and Simply.  After recording all the tracks to each of my songs which by the way incorporated a maximum 5 tracks per song (I'm a strong believer in keeping it simple), I had to format the songs into mp3s. Please note that when recording on GarageBand, your songs are initially recorded in a format that can only be opened by the GarageBand program. However, once you are done recording all your songs you need to convert them into mp3s or wav. files. This enables anyone to download or stream them. In my next post, I'll explain how to export your GarageBand songs and turn them into mp3s. Peace out...

It's been about two weeks since I published my last post but I've been really busy working on different projects so I apologize for the wait and thank you for hanging in there 😀. Continuing where my last blog post left off, the songs Afro, India's Dance, Midnight, and Wakka were all recorded strictly using loops. A couple of blog posts ago, I gave readers a link to an excellent YouTube video on using loops with GarageBand. In case you missed it, here's the link;   Recording With Loops In GarageBand . I basically sat and listened to random loops and picked the ones that I felt went well together. It's almost like putting a jigsaw puzzle together using random pieces. I kept putting pieces together till I got a cohesive song that I felt captured the beat and the sound that I was trying to convey to listeners. One of my signature moves that you will find on many of my songs is the Fade Out towards the end. Here's a picture of how this is done: You go to Mix on the ...