iPad 2 GarageBand Cover: Just Like Heaven

Here's my full song recreation on the iPad 2 featuring of one of my favorite songs growing up, The Cure's Just Like Heaven.
Everything was done in the GarageBand app from scratch. No external instruments were used. For the voice, I just used an iPhone headset's mic, which worked adequately but not the best. It would have probably sounded better if I were a better singer. haha
There were a few bugs I found out while doing this. Some notes will cut out after the app "optimizes for performance". I discovered that the fix for this was re-quantizing the tracks.
The guitar also has a lot of limitations (esp. on the range of the fretboard) which is annoying.
The interface is also not as intuitive as it should've been ( no level envelopes nor automation) but hey, this is the first song I've mixed partly on the toilet.
Anyway, it was a fun first attempt and the iPad GarageBand app is definitely a great creation tool!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• iPad
• GarageBand
• Ipad 2
• Apple
• Just Like Heaven
• The Cure
• New Wave
• Garageband
• song

[TelevatorMuzak]

And thank you everyone for the great comments! Sorry can't reply to all but you are all awesome!

[TelevatorMuzak]

@yallowrosa Thanks for all your kind words on these videos.

[TelevatorMuzak]

@nilo824 If you're just starting out, try doing an arrangement with the autoplay smart instruments and apple loops first so you could get a feel for the interface and controls. The apple loops could be accessed via a "ribbon like icon" on the top right corner once you have your first track already setup. Have fun!

[TelevatorMuzak]

@ShaolinJediMaster Yeah! I love that song (Ceremony). I'll try and do it. Some New Order songs make me incredibly happy.

[TelevatorMuzak]

@leonearp Thanks, mate! Yeah, totally done in iMovie for the Mac. I'm still using the '09 version but this probably will still work with the newer version.

All you do is simply drag a clip over a video in your timeline, then a menu will pop out with options like replace, insert, etc. and just select Picture in Picture. What I do afterwards though, to keep it simple, is apply an effect called Swap on the PIP clip so my edited timeline will be the inset clip instead and I could still work on it.

[TelevatorMuzak]

Thanks for checking this out, guys!

@jtutubebe I used the Live Drum Kit. Give it a little bit of Large Room Reverb to make it pop.

[AngusMcMaiden89]

Holy shit can't believe what I've just watched

[gstav691]

Bravoooo man, RERFECT song...!!!

Great job !!!!

[yallowrosa]

I can't believe it ... but I listen and I re-listen

[GroupOfDudes]

Sounds like coldplay to me

[yallowrosa]

One of the best cover of Cure I have ever listen ...

[yohcraft]

My mouth was open this entire video... Just amazing. I keep going back to this video cause I can't believe that you can put music like this on the iPad.

[MrPlballer]

I just bought the garage-band app, and I thought nothing like that was ever possible to create lol

[arkman117]

Great job man