Film Scoring/Butchering MIDI Files/Modifying Starwars in GarageBand

These instructions are designed for GarageBand 3 plus the sounds of a symphony orchestra.
GarageBand is easy and fast yet powerful enough to do film scoring.
Please, tell me if you find anything as good!


This course in music and filmmaking is:
Film scoring introduction for filmmakers
This lesson is:
Lesson #4 - Butchering MIDI files with GarageBand
The pages in this lesson are:
Page 1: Borrowing from classical MIDI files
Page 2: Importing Beethoven into GarageBand
Page 3a: Importing Starwars into GarageBand
Page 3b: Simplifying Starwars in GarageBand
Page 3c: Modifying Starwars in GarageBand
Page 4: Creating more sounds from Midi files - 6 points
Page 5: Create a musical cue for the motion picture "Graduation Day" - #2 - 20 points


Turning Starwars music into something new

Avoiding copyright laws

This page will explain how to change the tune so that the score does not violate copyright laws.
Now you try

The next page

Continue this lesson on how you would create more musical sounds by grabbing fragments of classical music.

Contact your instructor

Your instructor for this film scoring class is Robert Elliott.
You can email me by clicking here.