- Is there a Garage Band for PC?
- Wednesday, July 30, 2008
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Richard McCready has written a great post “Is there a Garage Band for PC?” on his blog, Tech Toys and Tunes, recommending trakAxPC to students and parents looking to having some fun creating music on their PC.
“Now I have found a great free alternative to Acid or to Garage Band. TrakAx is absolutely worth a look-at. It’s a fun program, it’s a visual delight, it’s intuitive and easy to use, the website is outstanding, and the tutorial videos are terrific. Best of all, it’s free.”
From a brief email conversation with Richard and reading his blog, it is clear that he is completely passionate about musical education for people of all ages. Richard’s blog is a great resource for anyone involved in music education. On his site, you will also see a link for ME Bloggers (Music Education Bloggers), which lists the Top 100 Music Education Bloggers. I had a quick look around some of the blogs mentioned and they are full of interesting and exciting ideas on how to make teaching music more enjoyable for everyone involved.
It seems that music education can often (in Ireland anyway) be limited to students who quickly show a tangible talent for music, rather than being an integral part of a person’s complete schooling. Obviously not everyone is going to be the next Mozart or Bob Dylan, but that shouldn’t stop kids (actually people of all ages) simply having fun experimenting with music and exploring their creativity. We don’t stop kids playing soccer for example, just because they will never play for Manchester United - we play for the sheer fun of it, regardless of our ability.
Hopefully, our free application, trakAxPC, will go a little way in making music more accessible for the average kid/person. The whole concept for the application came from Jim (who is also my father), when he saw one of my brothers who is obsessed with music, struggle as a teenager to learn the guitar. He felt that there were so many teenagers out there who try and learn an instrument, but when faced with the difficulty of actually mastering it, quickly get fed up and more than often, quit trying. If they could create something that sounded half-decent within a short period of time, then they would be encouraged to flex their creativity and become involved in the process.
Anyway - we’ve been extremely busy over the last few weeks. We are coming towards the end of the development of the new release and we think it’s looking quite sweet. Cormac will post a quick sneak peak video next week of some of the new features and functionality that we’ve been working on and we hope you’ll enjoy the new features.
Thanks again to Richard for the mention on his blog!
Catriona
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Wow! This is interesting stuff..Thanks a lot!
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