Thanks to everyone who has visited Jamcast! lately - we’ve been getting some fantastic feedback, and we’re working on more great content on songwriting, home recording and general music skills. We want Jamcast! to be a really broad-based blog that covers a wide range of musical subjects.
A few bits and pieces coming up in the near future:
- We’re going to add more material to the GarageBand tutorials, including some audiovisual stuff in the form of screencast how-to videos. Lots of people are arriving at the site searching for GarageBand-related information but not always winding up on the right pages, so we’ve added a menu item (above) listing the full range of GarageBand info and updates.
- More tutorials are on their way. Graeme is going to be doing some more techie stuff (on Pro Tools, and what you can expect if you book a professional recording studio for a couple of days) and I’m starting a series of songwriting tutorials this week.
- We’re going to be updating the appearance of the site over the next couple of weeks - nothing major, just a general smartening up.
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So long, Les!
We can’t sign off without marking the passing of the great Les Paul, who died last week aged 94. Les revolutionised popular music by inventing not just the solid-body electric guitar but also multitrack recording. Things have moved on a little bit since the giant tape machines of the 1940s and 1950s, but if you’re sitting in front of GarageBand or Cubase recording Stratocaster licks, you’re using two technologies that have their ultimate roots with Les Paul. There’s a great obituary in The Guardian.
(While you’re on the Groan website, you might also like to check out Martin Kettle’s piece on Handel, especially if you enjoyed Graeme’s first post on classical music. Part two is coming early next week…)
