Independent singer-songwriter Brye shared a TikTok video revealing that her song Lemons – which has 100 million streams – was produced in GarageBand on a school iPad with a cheap plug-in mic. The pop singer, whose full name is Bryanna Noelle Sebring, says her experience shows you don’t need fancy equipment to achieve musical success – and echoes the promise Steve Jobs made when the Mac app launched in 2004… GarageBand was initially just for Macs, and here’s what Steve Jobs had to say about it at the time of its launch: GarageBand is for everyone, it’s for all of us, and what it does is it turns your Mac into a professional-grade musical instrument and one complete recording studio application (…) If you have a kid who plays the piano and he has a Mac, you can get him GarageBand, a pair of headphones, and a USB keyboard – and he has a $50,000 grand piano in his bedroom (…) You can watch that video below, as well as the Lemons video. One of Brye’s fans asked her how she produces her songs, and she created a TikTok video saying this: Lemons, which went super viral during quarantine in 2020, was actually produced, if you can believe it, in GarageBand on my school iPad. My high school gave us all the iPads and I produced lemons on them. I just liked making beats on GarageBand in high school. I wrote musicals for my school with GarageBand on my iPad, and then I made this little demo for Lemons and recorded it with my horrible little plug-in mic. I posted it to spite a guy who was horrible to me, and it blew up. All that to say, how crazy is it that a song that could be played on Sirius You don’t need any fancy equipment. You don’t need a degree to make money and make it your job. Obviously it’s good to learn, it’s fun to upgrade, but if you’re working on a budget, GarageBand is for you on any Apple device. As John Gruber observes, that’s why Apple created GarageBand: to let everyone create, share, and download music without the need for expensive equipment. If Brye’s story isn’t exactly what Steve Jobs was talking about when he introduced GarageBand in 2004 and GarageBand for iPad in 2011, well, I don’t know what is. Until the fact that she did it on school equipment. Brye says that, six years later, she now uses Logic Pro and has a full home studio, but you absolutely don’t need one to get started — or even to have a hit. Listen Lemons: And watch Steve introduce GarageBand: FTC: We use automatic, revenue-generating affiliate links. More. Post navigation MacBook Pro OLED displays on track amid talk of delayed launch
