Yeah, I'm On Garageband
Yeah, I've been on Garageband for quite a while. At first none of my tunes would get reviewed, but then they came in like a flood. Now I'm getting them maybe once a week if I'm lucky.
The deal is that you must earn upload credits by critiquing several sets of tunes. For example...I want to upload my newest tune. I must critique ten sets of songs before they'll let me upload one of mine. Your tunes are ranked by the greatness of your reviews and the band with the best reviews gets a $250,000 recording contract.
In theory it works well. But there are your run of the mill boneheads who are more interested in knocking you down so their band can rise in the rankings. That's not the worst part though. The worst is the people who don't even care enough to write a review at all. I've gotten reviews that look like this...
"Rock It!"
That's all. They give you the power to reject the review or accept it, and I pretty much accept anything that took time to write. If someone writes that my tune is the worst tune on the planet, I'll decline it. But if they tell me why they think it's the worst tune on the planet, I'll keep it.
Something else that's interesting is that every week they have a different member of their advisory board critique seven songs. These guys have names like George Martin, Jerry Harrison, etc. You can choose who you want to review your work. Needless to say, the odds of getting reviewed by one of these guys is poor.
My overall view of Garageband is that it's a nice place to upload a couple of tunes, you know it'll get heard by other musicians. But if you're banking on winning the $250,000, you'd have better luck buying lottery tickets.
On a side note, from time to time they have a deal with some movie of TV show to use songs from their collection. Our own Teddie was in the top ten for the new Adam Sandler movie. He didn't win though.
Here's a link to my page. Feel free to read the reviews. I think they're probably pretty typical.
http://www.garageband.com/register/band/profile.html?*0y589sxBQhztn128
Mark
Alpha Dog
http://www.mp3.com/alphadog
http://alphadog.iuma.com