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johnbro23
10-08-2004, 10:56 PM
I was fooling around with Garageband tonight, and came up with a cover of Ants Marching. I only have a guitar, so I put a drum loop to it, and did everything else on guitar (including LeRoi's and Stefan's parts). Well, here it is, its not long, only a minute.

http://www.angelfire.com/music5/johnbro23/Ants_Marching.m4a

Tell me what you think. :)
tdowe99
10-09-2004, 01:05 AM
I don't have anything that plays .m4a files.
Firedncin8nancy
10-09-2004, 01:37 AM
you gotta convert that file to mp3 and then repost
Firedncin8nancy
10-09-2004, 01:38 AM
actually i lied, winamp 5.02 can play them
Firedncin8nancy
10-09-2004, 01:40 AM
the loop makes it hiphopish... cool interpretation it was a fun listen
NavyBoy41
10-09-2004, 02:55 AM
sounds pretty cool man... :thumbsup
johnbro23
10-09-2004, 07:37 AM
Sorry I don't know how to convert it to mp3. Does anyone know how? Obviously I'm using a Mac.

Thanks for the imput, yea I agree it does sound kind of hiphopish. It was my first time doing anything like that on Garageband. Its amazing how easy that program is.
mdmt619
10-09-2004, 01:07 PM
is that one of the pre-recorded drum loops or did you make your own midi loop?
j_wyse
10-09-2004, 01:11 PM
The ITunes player will play the .m4a files too

Jim
tdowe99
10-09-2004, 01:15 PM
I tried playing it in Winamp 5.03, and it didn't work. You can convert it to mp3 with iTunes. I hate iTunes for PC, and so I'm waiting until I get a Mac to use it (cuz you're pretty much forced to).

So if you can convert m4a --> mp3 with your iTunes, please do so.
Mickey Carson
10-09-2004, 01:40 PM
funky...I like it
johnbro23
10-09-2004, 01:57 PM
I just converted it to .mp3 so windows users can listen:

http://www.angelfire.com/music5/johnbro23/Ants_Marching.mp3

To answer mdmt619, I used one of Apples prerecorded loops. It just so happens it fits almost perfectly with Ants, except it does make it sound a little hip hopish. I got Garageband Jampack, which is an expansion pack that has a ton more loops to work with.
YknSTONE
10-09-2004, 02:12 PM
^ link doesnt work for me.
genesissccr22
10-10-2004, 12:34 AM
it's pretty cool!
genesissccr22
10-10-2004, 12:45 AM
is there any software w/a free download like garageband, but for windows?
YknSTONE
10-10-2004, 05:21 AM
^ not to my knowledge. Garageband is only a MAC based music program.