Trimming a Song Clip in GarageBand 1. On the school laptops you will need to log in to your network folder AND authenticate on the Internet in order to use iTunes. If you do this before opening iTunes, you will have your own iTunes files that will load on any laptop. 2. Import your song into iTunes from a CD or flash drive.  For a CD, open iTunes and drag the song from the CD into the Music folder. Please do not import the entire CD.  For a flash drive, you can just drag a song into iTunes music from the drive folder on the desktop. 3. Open GarageBand and choose New Project, then Podcast. 4. Click on the Audio tab in the right column, then on iTunes – Music. 5. Locate the song in the iTunes Music list and drag it into the top editing area OR drag the song from a flash drive into the top editing area. Drag it to the beginning of the track if needed. 6. Click the time bar above the spot where you want the clip to begin. 7. Use Edit-­Split from the top menu bar OR the keyboard shortcut Command + T. 8. Click outside the track to remove highlighting. 9. Click the time bar again above the spot where you want the clip to end. 10. Use Edit-­Split from the top menu bar OR the keyboard shortcut Command + T. 11. Click outside the track to remove highlighting. 12. Highlight the sections before and after the “good part” and delete them. Use Edit-­
Undo as needed to get this right. 13. Drag your short clip to the beginning of the track line if needed, OR cut it from its current spot and paste it at the beginning. Be sure it starts at the beginning. 14. You may want to modify your clip to fade in at the beginning and fade out at the end. To do this, click on the little arrow shown here: 15. Now you will see a blue line in a new track area below your clip. Click a short distance from the beginning of the clip to make a dot, th en drag the first spot of your clip down so that it looks like this. Do the same at the end of your clip. 16. Click on Share in the top menu bar and pull down to Export Podcast to Disk. 17. Change the settings to MP3 Encoder and Higher Quality as shown here, then click the Export button. 18. Click Continue when you see this message in the next window: 19. Locate your Documents folder and save the mp3 file there to use in your project. Play the clip to be sure it saved correctly.