Make Music!

A couple of years ago, at college, I decided to purchase a piece of software for my mac called "GarageBand." What a great purchase it was too. If you have a mac, I definitely recomend getting this software. There are many things you can do with it.

1. Make songs about your friends. I started doing this in college and made a few songs about my friends. One of whom goes by Neil but his real name is George. I made another about my Southern/German friend, Nina. Of course, Garageband is not necessary to make songs for your friends -- if you can record yourself either playing instruments, or beating on household objects (cups with water make nice tones, etc, be creative). You can either mix in vocals if you have any mixing software or you can record the instrumental track, play it back, and then on another computer, record both the music being played back and your vocals. Getting the levels right might be tricky, but it could be worth it.

Also, I found some company that makes personalized songs for you if you really can't get the tech right on this one. You fill out a form and they create a witty song for you. It's called FluidTunes

2. Make a soundtrack for the movie I already told you to make.

3. Record all of the funny voicemails you get and then e-mail them out to whoever would find it funny (works best if you have speakerphone on your cell, but still works as long as you hold the phone right up to the receiver). You don't really need GarageBand for this one, just anything that will record.

4. Sing along to a song in your headphones, then import the real song (I had my friends do this to a backstreet boys song) and have your vocals mix in with the song. Also, along these lines, once, I took an mp3 of a song that my friend listened to a lot, and then added comments throughout the song about him -- be creative -- whatever you want to say, the more shocking the better. Then I replaced the mp3 of this song on his computer with the new version. He was quite surprised to hear the remix.

5. I am sure there are MANY more possibilities for this one -- GarageBand is a GREAT piece of software. Go nuts.