UPDATE - 10/1@11:49AM: In the latest episode of the MacBreak Weekly podcast they discuss GarageBand, Alex's artist lesson and Rush in general from about the 22-30 minute mark. You can listen to and download the podcast at this link. Thanks to Stephen D for the heads up.

Last week Alex Lifeson's GarageBand Learn To Play Artist Lessons for Tom Sawyer and Limelight were made available for purchase at the Lesson Store for Apple's GarageBand software. A short preview video of Alex's Tom Sawyer lesson has been posted at the Apple GarageBand site. You can also watch it below or at this link (thanks RushFanForever).

GarageBand is a software application that allows users to create music or podcasts, and is included in all shipments of iLife. The most recent version of the software (iLife '09) includes music instruction, allowing users to buy instructional videos by several popular artists such as Sting, Norah Jones and Ben Folds. Alex Lifeson described how he recorded the instructional videos for the software in his recent Classic Rock presents ... Prog interview.

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