hello it's Patrick here from the GarageBand guide.com beginners this
video is for you getting started with GarageBand on Mac
can be a daunting task for newcomers so in this video I'm going to share my top
5 tips to help you hit the ground running
when you open GarageBand on Mac the program will automatically open to the
last project that you worked on to start a new project hit file in the toolbar at
the top and select new from the menu if it's your first time using GarageBand
you'll be taken to the project template window by default with the new project
tab selected you'll be able to choose from the 8 project templates available
to you now these templates open a new GarageBand project with a variety of
trap types instruments and effects pre-loaded which allows you to quickly
and easily get to work on a particular genre or type of project the songwriter
template for example loads up a mix of audio tracks software instrument tracks
and a drummer track setup for what a typical singer-songwriter may need while
the electronic template loads up an electronic flavored drummer track with a
big selection of EDM sense from GarageBand sound library if you want to
start your project from scratch however you're better off selecting empty
project doing so will open GarageBand with nothing pre-loaded and you'll be
prompted to select a track tape to add
there are three trap types available to you in GarageBand
the software instrument track which allows you to play and record the huge
number of virtual instruments and sounds that come packaged with GarageBand
either with a MIDI controller or even with your Mac's
keyboard there are two sub types of audio track the real instrument track
lets you record vocals or an instrument through the built-in microphone on your
Mac or via an attached external microphone the guitar track gives you
access to Garage Band suite of electric and bass guitar amps ins and finally the
drummer track which adds a virtual session drummer to your project you can
choose from 31 different drummers which covers on Rah's from dubstep to hip-hop
to hardrock whatever you plan to create in GarageBand you're probably gonna want
to include one of these guys in your mix
GarageBand has a huge library of pre-recorded snippets of audio that you
can use and your projects called loops there's a built-in old browser that you
can use to search for your loops using filters like genre type instruments and
even the key that the loop is in click on the loop icon in the top right of the
GarageBand window to open the loop browser you can then use the filters up
top to find a specific loop type that you're after or click on the beats tempo
or key headings to sort them that way
click on a loop to audition it and then drag and drop it into the workspace to
add it to your project
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the three different loop tapes on offer here correspond to the three track types
available in garage bands blue loops are clips of recorded audio green loops open
enter software instrument track
and yellow lips open in a drummer track
the very first time you open GarageBand on Mac you'll probably notice that a lot
of sounds that you want to work with are grayed out this is because when you
first download GarageBand from the Mac App Store all you get is the bare bones
of the program you need to download the rest of its own library separately now
you can start the download by clicking any of the grid out items that you see
in the loop browser for example or by clicking on GarageBand in the toolbar at
the top of the GarageBand window hovering over sound library and
selecting download all available sounds be warned depending on your internet
connection this will take a long time so maybe set this up before going to bed or
before going to work or something
if you're ready to start using garage bands huge library of software
instruments but either haven't gotten around to buying yourself a MIDI
controller yet or just don't have one to hand you can actually use your Mac's
keyboard click on window in the toolbar at the top of the GarageBand window and
select show musical typing on the keyboard that pops up the middle keys
correspond to the white keys on a piano and the W et Y u or NP keys correspond
to the Black Keys you have only got a single octave to play with here but it's
definitely usable and lets you jump into garage bands huge sound library right
away so there you have it that's my top 5 tips to help you get started with
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