Below is a tutorial for the “Interview/Music Mashup” Assignment using GarageBand.

For songs I didn’t already have, I used a YouTube to mp3 converter.

Once you find the song on YouTube, just copy the link and paste it into the box above the buttons that says “Covert Video.” Then click the “Covert Video” button. The image below should come up. Then, click the “Download” link and the mp3 will be downloaded to your computer. You will then be able to access it from GarageBand.

Once you have done this for all the songs, you can drag the songs from the Media Browser under the Audio tab onto the track.

Now you have a bunch of full-length songs, when you only need snippets of then. To break up a song into segments, you need to use the Split tool under the Edit menu. Make sure the red time bar is located at the time where you want to split the song, then split it.

Do this repeatedly for all the songs until you have all the snippets you need. Then, just use the Record feature (the red circle) to record yourself asking the questions. Rearrange the snippets as needed by dragging them so everything is played in the correct order.

Hope this helps!