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http://live.pirillo.com/ – Even though I’m not a musician by any stretch of the imagination, I can now create cool music very easily with this program. Hmm… maybe time to create my own “giveaway theme song”?

I hadn’t really checked out the Garage Band part of iLife ’08 until I opened it the other night to record a voice over for a project I’m working on. I noticed there is a new button called “Magic Garage Band”. Magic? I had to check it out.

Clicking on that button takes you to a “stage”, where you can choose your favorite genre of music, from rock to blues. Once you do that, the curtains open, and you can select each individual instrument and edit the type, style, sound, etc. The neatest thing is that you can change these during the preview, and instantly hear your changes. There’s the guitars, drums, and even keyboards!

Once you think you’re satisfied with your music, click the “Creating project” button. From there, you can edit your project in numerous ways.

This is just too awesome, and I could get lost in it for hours at a time!

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Music Fun with Apple iLife GarageBand