Travels with Rhody

I’ve never written a song in my life until this weekend — and by the standards of my composer and musician friends, I still haven’t. But after getting the $4.99 Garageband app for my iPad 2 yesterday, I wanted to see how hard it would be to record a little ditty using the built-in recording studio functions. Turns out it’s pretty darn easy. Garageband comes with an amazing array of guitar, keyboard, and drum options, and it’s got a touch-driven, drag-and-drop editing interface that’s very similar to iMovie. Once you’ve written a few sections of music, you can easily loop them, and if you stay in the same key (C major in this case) it all comes out fine.

So my project for Saturday afternoon/evening was to take Rhody to the beach, shoot a bit of video, then head home, assemble some music, and put it all together in iMovie. Here’s the result.