Garage Band

Garage Band is a great learning tool to use in the music classroom. Teaching your students how to use and operate garage band is a few lessons within its self, but it can also be converted into supporting other aspects of music.

Films
Film scores are often overlooked by your normal student, so introducing film score along with having activities in garage band is an awesome unit to have in your lessons. For example, informing students about the different emotions and feelings music creates in film and then having them create their own in garage band. Garage band hold so many opportunities for a student to create their own sound track. There are sound effects, and then there are effects for the sound the students record themselves.

Making Movies
Garage Band also has an option to include pictures and video. With this, you can inform your students about the different types of ads on the TV or radio and have them create their own. For example, there are many medias that promote smoking. Ex, music videos, music lyrics, TV shows, and even kids movies. You can use Garage Band to form an activity where students create their own ads, music videos, or re-vamp the lyrics to their favorite songs in order to advocate for anti-smoking.

Composition
Garage band hold so many possibilities for students to compose their own music. If you have students who struggle on instruments, or don't know how to play instruments in general but show great interest for creating music, you can introduce them to the wonders of garage band. Through this, students can compose whatever they wish with the many sounds of garage band.

-classical music with strings and brass sounds
-sound effects
-pop music with vocal effects
-blues music with bending and tempo effects

etc etc.