garage band rocks!

so after spending new years vacation playing guitar hero and then chili night playing rock band, i got a bit fired up and picked up my for real (with strings & stuff!) guitar and started practicing.

i'm a white guy with no rhythm so timing and counting are some of the things i need to practice most. i found an online metronome that helped a little, but what i really wanted was to be able to set the time and pace and play along with a moving staves and bars.

so it occurred to me that i could load a song in garage band and play along with it...

until i found out it could record my playing straight through the mac mike!

my brain exploded. this was without question the absolutely perfect thing and exactly what i was looking for.

i'm not much of a musician (or else i would've known about this already probably) but now i have no excuse not to practice. unbelievable!

and it comes with the darn computer. how cool is that?

if you have any interest in making music, even just playing the cowbell, try garage band and fool around with it for a few minutes and it will make you happy. very happy.

now i'm going to try to see if a windows equivalent even exists (mostly out of curiosity) and see how it compares.