hello it's Patrick here from the GarageBandguide.com in this video I'm
gonna take a closer look at one of GarageBand for iOS touch instruments the
strings
perhaps GarageBand for iOS is most impressive sounding touch instruments
the strings allow you to play faithful recreations of the cello viola bass and
violins in typical GarageBand style you can play the strings and a number of
touch intuitive ways you'll find the strings in GarageBand sound browser the
layout here is similar to other touch instruments with a play area and the
controls area to work with you can select from different string sounds here
switch between playing chords and notes here
and select autoplay options for the different string zones here
depending on the input method you've selected you can play the strings touch
instrument here with the chords view active you can create a number of
different scents you can play a chord with bowing by touching and holding a
segment of a chord strip and then slowly swiping up and down
you can also choose which of these stringed instruments available will play
they're all selected by default when you open the strings touch instrument
tapping on an instrument will deselect it
you can play as the cattle chord by quickly swiping a segment of a chord
strip and you can play a chord pizza cattle by tapping a segment of a chord
strip like all of garage bands touch instruments that use the chords feature
you can customize your own chords too to add a custom chord tap the song settings
button in the control bar then tap Edit the chords tap the chord strip you want
to use for your custom chord and then swipe the chord wheel to set the chord
root and called quality and to add an extension
you can swipe the bass wheel if you want to add an alternative bass note to when
you're finished tap Done to return to your song switching over to notes of
view you can play individual notes on a single string instrument and you can
select which instruments you'll play at the top here
so you can play your stringed instrument and a number of ways if you want to play
notes legato you can touch and hold a string
you can play your notes short legato by tapping a string and you can play notes
with bowing if you touch and hold the articulation button on the Left V R then
swipe a string up and down
to play notes pizza cattle touch and hold the articulation button again on
the left and then tap a string to play the North's pizza cat or to play notes
of a particular scale tap the scale button and then select the scale that
you want to play
and finally to use autoplay on the autoplay knob to one of the number
positions and then tap a chord strip the autoplay pattern will vary depending on
which string sound you have selected
and there you have it that's an overview of GarageBand for iOS as strings touch
instrument I've been Patrick from the GarageBand
guide.com and I'll see you next time bye for now
you