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Create Salsa Music for Free with Garageband! [Salsa Music Contest]

Salsa Music in GaragebandNow that everyone is becoming more experienced with computers, I wanted to give everyone a creative holiday salsa project! About a year ago I created a few salsa music tracks that became very popular with some of our fans and we received several emails asking how any salsero (with a Mac) could make their own. The process is very simple! Garageband, a free application that comes with every Mac computer, allows you to do this with just a few clicks of the mouse. When you start a new project in Garageband, you can select ‘New’ from the menu and select ‘Magic Garageband‘. From there all you have to do is select the instruments you like and you are done! You can also add your own clave in Garageband to give it a more salsa feel!

Here are the salsa music instrument tracks I made previously with Garageband that are available on our salsa feed (feel free to download and distribute, however, not for commercial use):

Here is a video of how you can easily change the different instruments in Magic Garageband to get the right feel for your musical style.

Salsa Holiday Contest Time!

Salsa Music Holiday Album - Navidad SalsaGiven how easy it is to create fun salsa music tracks, we’d like to listen to your creativity! Come up with a few salsa music tracks of your own! Send your track as an email attachment, with your name and location to contact@addicted2salsa.com (we’ll post them on our website at a later time). Submit as many tracks as you’d like for the contest.

The TOP 5 contestants, selected by us, will receive my favorite iTunes album for the Salsa Dancing Holidays: “Feliz Navidad” by Hector Lavoe and Daniel. Please note you need to have a valid iTunes account to receive the prize. Contest ends January 15th, 2009The best track will be danced by us during the intro of a future Addicted2Salsa video episode (how cool is that!).

Salsa Music : Free Salsa Music Trumpet Solo

Salsa Trumpet Solo - Salsa MusicAfter you get a Mac, a lot of fun things happen. I decided to put my compusic (computer+music) skills to some more good use an make a few interesting Salsa tracks with a program called GarageBand. While I was at it, I made three different versions of this salsa dance soundtrack. Here is the first one: an interesting salsa music trumpet solo with some mixed in jazzy piano, cowbell and congas. Let me know what you think and of course – enjoy!

I welcome your comments and feel free to download, distribute and use the file freely – I provide it as part of a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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