January 6th. 2009 – I’m going to assume since you are reading this site, that you also know that Macworld 2009 is going on which will be the last Macworld, for now anyways. One of the interesting developments is that Garageband has been updated. Garageband is the free music software that ships with Apple computers and has been used by many artists as a writing tool.
Along with the usual plug-in extras Apple seems to add every year, Garageband now comes with music lessons. There are 9 lessons for each guitar and piano included, with the option to buy lessons from famous artists. Want to learn the Police’s “Roxanne”? Sting will teach you and you can play along with the rest of the band, soloing either Sting’s performance or the band’s.
The downloads are accessed through Garageband’s new Lesson Store, which looks a lot like the iTunes one. The price per lesson is $5 and they will expand the store with new songs continually.
While I assume they’ll make a boat load of money from these lesson downloads, I wonder if the artists make a certain cut of each download. If so, this could be an interesting new revenue stream for artists. Would you purchase Garageband artist lessons?
Update: Peter over at CreateDigitalMusic linked me regarding this topic, and a previous post I made about iVideoSongs. The GarageBand store is very similar to the iVideoSongs concept and I hope that Apple partnered with them. If they did, this makes iVideoSongs’ great legacy library available to them. If not, we need to get the word out about iVideoSongs which has a wide variety of artists, and styles available. I don’t want to see the small innovator getting steamrolled here.
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