It does let you combine what they offer easily, and that may or may not be creative, but that is not the same thing. It really doesn't let you create your own music or reproduce music easily (using the computer and loops). In summary, Garage Band should be simpler to use, but more flexible. is a big pain to transpose those chords with a numeric slider - just let me say "C, G and D" please. sounds awful transposed too far up or down from C and 2. And it isn't just jazz - I just tried to use GB to do a little version of the banjo playing Cripple Creek (C G and D major chords over and over) and transposing the banjo loops 1. There is no way I can easily input a chord progression, even for simple songs with a couple of 2-5-1s (Minor 7, Dominant 7, Major 7). For example, say I wanted to practice some jazz standards and play along with my computer. As it is now, the only useful loops are drums and percussion IF you are interested in laying down chord progressions. Maybe I am wrong, but I see Garage Band as more in line with this than a "sequencer lite" with samples. in any style you could think of and with all kinds of chords. Band-in-a-Box was a cheap program by the way and it did all this in 1989 - and as far as I know it was very unique - instant (though cheesy sounding) music with drums, bass, piano. I kind of think Apple's foray into this is "music making for the masses/the rest of us" and for those who want to wip out some tracks as a song or to play along with, Garage Band is a lot of effort.
Yep - all good points, so you have to come up with 999 other wrong things to say today to keep up on your stats!
#Band in a box files jazz standards how to#
I suppose the time line is a solid standard in sequencers, but GB isn't a sequencer! So, something like this score type editor/view might be a worthwhile option for those who, well, know how to read and write music or just think and work in established musical forms. In addition, Band in a Box, though again awful from a user perspective, also had an editor based more on score (with repeats, codas, A/B/C sections.) than a linear time line. Analogy, if Garage Band were a word processor it would limit users to words of 3 or less syllables! We need a better vocabulary please! Perhaps you could model something like that in future versions of Garage Band? I'm not saying it would be easy with sampled loops (you would need many more obviously), but it would be slick and far more impressive than what you have today. tracks for those chords - in a range of musical styles (about 50 I think). Though it was a crude midi based program with a simply awful interface and produced cheesy output, Band-in-a-Box allowed users to input all these types of chords in any key and for any length of beats and would then generate the bass, piano, horn. What about diminished chords or augmented chords? While we are at it, how about 6th, 9th, 13th, minor 7b5, and a whole other range of "altered" chords common not just to jazz, but all music? Hey, people play jazz in the garage too you know - I used to! How about a dominant 7 chord let alone major and minor 7th chords. What I am saying here is there is more to mylife and music than vanilla major and minor chords for bass lines, pianos, guitars, horns.
I just bought garage band (iLife 4) and after many years of being away from midi and all that stuff, I find some things great about garage band (wonderful quality loops and sound), but lacking in one area - musical sophistication.
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