I am John Stingler, a mechanic by profession and music lover by heart. I have created around 100 short melodies & music for short films featured in apple music store, spotify and youtube.
I started learning music when I was 13, started with western classical vocals but soon realised that singing is not my cup of tea. I loved to create music, play instruments and bind everything together into melodies.
At the age of 14, I moved into music composing. However school and parental pressure for studies did not let me pursue my passion full time. I passed my school at the age of 16 and created a small studio for myself in my college hostel room with the pocket money I had been saving for the last 5 years.
Within the first few weeks, I came to know about the free music composing app Garageband which totally changed the game for me. That is also when my dad gifted me a macbook for scoring high in my first semester.
Since then, I have been using Garageband professionally for several hours a day, perfecting the different tools and features that Apple has bestowed it with.
I tried many other softwares like logic pro and audacity. However, none could satisfy me with the UI and overall libraries, plugins and free features I was looking for.
In my first year of college I started a small discord community to help fellow musicians with music composing through Garageband and later realised that the garageband loving community is huge and very sincere for the software.
So I came up with this website/blog to add not just my years of experience in music composing but to directly help my fellow musicians with any problems they might face using Garageband. I mean, look at this beauty! Fade in, auto tuning, mp3s, ringtones… the list of things you can accomplish inside it just never ends.
Believe me when I say, you can accomplish 99% of the things in this software without spending a penny and with a little bit of investment, you will have access to all kinds of libraries and plugins which will make music composing even more fun for you.
Here’s what you’ll get on this website.
- Garageband tutorials for beginners- the exact methods you can implement to make full use of this tool.
- Tips and tricks- Obviously, over the years I have found several shortcuts and little hacks to make the software even more fun and full of utility for you.
- Using it on PC- Yes, you can GB on pc and on this website, I will tell you my personal method I have figured out using VMWare to have lifetime free access on windows.
- Videos and media- My brother who is also into music composing creates creative video tutorials for using GB and on this website, you will have full access to his creativity too.
All in all, I intend to use this website as a full fledged guide on Garageband for you all! To ever contact me in case of need, you can email me on garagebandonpc@gmail.com or shoot me a SKYPE request on garagebandonpc