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Monday, April 2
2:57PM

Learning to Play Guitar Just Using a Mac?

Can you learn to play guitar just with GarageBand and YouTube?

Since January I have been learning to play electric guitar by only using interactive tuition. My main tutors being Garage Band (on the Mac) and a YouTube based guitar tutor. I have been really pleased with the progress I am making even though I have not had a 'proper lesson' yet.

My current kit includes:

- iPad (running GarageBand - very useful for writing your own practice tracks to play along with)

- MacBook Air running GarageBand with downloaded lessons - chord analysis is fantastic when you are not sure you are playing the right strings.

- Guitar Jack to USB connector to plug the guitar straight into the MacBook and iPad 

- Yamaha REV500 - digital reverb unit

- 20W guitar amp

Learning to play any instrument can be fun as well as frustrating.  Using a Mac as your tutor is a great way to learn!

This is a short video of my desk setup I am using for this.
Submitted by AuthorSpencer Organ DateApr 2, 2012 at 2:57 PM tagged , ,
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