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AMM: Garage Band Exercise #2: Add Real Time Drum Track
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Using "Garage Band" add a "real-time" drum track to one of the pieces created in Exercise #1.
You will play in "drum" parts using the keyboard (piano) attached to the computer.
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1) Open "Garage Band" and load one of your pieces from Exercise #1.
- Go/Applications/Garage Band
- Click on Garage Band icon in the dock at the bottom of the screen.
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2)Create a "software instrument" track and select a drum kit for that track. |
Add a new "software track"
- Track/New Track.
- Make sure you select "Software Instrument Track"
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- Click the "Track Info" button at the bottom right of the main window to open the "Track Info window.
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- Select "Drum Kits" from the left list, and then select a specific drum kit, from the right list.
- Try playing the piano keyboard attached to the computer.
- You should hear different drum sounds on different piano keys.
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| 3) Record various drum tracks to add to your piece. |
- Select your new track.
- Click the Record Button. (Red circle inside Gray circle at bottom of window.
- You can record different drum parts on different drum tracks, by creating duplicate tracks.
- Track/ Duplicate Track
- ie. snare drum on one track, cymbal on another track, bass drum on another track, etc. , etc.
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4) Hand in to:
- centralpeelmusic.../HandIn/MusicIn/GarageBand2/LiveDrums1
6) Add live drums to your second piece.
Hand in to:
- mediaartslab/MusicIn/GarageBand2/LiveDrums2
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