Music Is Not for Insects

I have been using GarageBand on a regular basis in my general music classroom with 4th and 5th grade students for several months now and have found it to be more than just a “fun” program for creating clever songs using loops and jingles.
This will be the first of several posts devoted to my use of GarageBand in the classroom. Some may be in the form of tips where I pose a problem and solution. Others may be more detailed lessons.
This first post is a tip: How to Burn a CD direct from GarageBand without using share to iTunes

PROBLEM: You have some extended audio you want to quickly burn to CD. You use GarageBand to record your project to a single audio track. You can easily share your project to iTunes using share>send to iTunes>create a playlist in iTunes>burn playlist to disc. But you want to break up your lengthy GarageBand track into several tracks on a CD for easy indexing and location by the listener later on with their CD player…you can’t do this when you share your tracks direct to iTunes.

SOLUTION: In the latest version of GarageBand 08, you can use a Podcast track to create markers that will act as tracks when you choose “Burn Song to CD” from the share menu. From the GarageBand help menu: “If a project contains chapter markers and the podcast or movie track is visible when you burn the project to a CD, the chapter markers are used to define the tracks on the CD.” Check out my screencast below: (NOTE: I was not inhaling helium when I created the screencast even though my voice sounds like Alvin…this is a wonky feature of the free screencast-o-matic online software I was using to create this tutorial.)

Related Posts:

“Not that loop again, and again…”: Using Garageband responsibly to create music for your digital projects.

Garageband Tip: Musical Typing