Home Recording with a DAW
DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) software is great for recording music onto a computer. You'll need a microphone. And you can consider one of the following free DAW programs. Use them to record multiple tracks over top of each other (recording one at a time, but with an end result of a full-band sound).
Music Studio Producer
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/MusicStuProd/
(A similar software called Independence costs $39.) MSP gets mixed reviews, and will take some time to learn how to run the software. But you can't beat the price!
Audacity
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
This award-winning software is open source, so many skilled mindshave contributed to it. Currently, version 1.2.6 is available with full documantation. It allows speed and pitch changes (helpful for those Oops moments).
Do you use a different DAW that is free? Tell us about it below.
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