Several weeks ago, Apple Canada treated us to hands-on demo and briefing of Apple Computer's latest, coolest application called GarageBand. GarageBand is a music composition application that (my musician friends tell me) puts $100,000 digital recording studio on to your Mac. (And it costs about $90).
For the non-musician, like me, GarageBand lets you take pre-recorded loops — a 16-beat piano riff, for example — and tie them all up together into real music. The program handles the syncing up, etc. I think this is a fabulous application and could do for music what Adobe's Photoshop did for photography, that is, it will let everybody jump in and explore some aspect of their creativity.
So, this afternoon, it took me about an hour of noodling away with just bass, drums and piano, to come up with this. Try it out. It's Noodle Piano, Op. 1, about a minute-and-a-half MP3.
A musician and very good at noodling indeed! Now I need a lobotomy to switch using a Mac. Tres cool! 🙂