Pearson Education, Inc., 221 River Street, Hoboken, New Jersey 07030, (Pearson) presents this site to provide information about Peachpit products and services that can be purchased through this site. Line it up with the 4 and the 8 on the ruler and the fills will be in perfect sync. If you need help lining up the loops as you drag them, remember to use the yellow line marking the beginning of the loop. Add Crowd Groove Fill 07 at measure 4 on the ruler, and Crowd Groove Fill 04 at measure 8 ( 4.18).

GarageBand intelligently makes room for the new loop, and even continues the existing drum loop after the fill. Just as you did with the other loops, simply drag the loop from the browser into the timeline, only this time, drag it on top of the existing drum loop. Crowd Groove Fill 04 and Crowd Groove Fill 07 sound like theyвЂ™ll work perfectly.ДЄdding these loops to the existing drum track is extremely easy. Scroll through the Loop browser and notice the names of the two loops directly after Crowd Groove Drumset 06. Fortunately, GarageBand comes with drum loops specifically recorded for this purpose. It might be appropriate to add a drum fill or two to break up the monotony.

Now that all the tracks are in place, the song is beginning to sound a bit repetitive.

Once you have created new sections, tapping Edit lets you delete or rearrange them.

Again, tapping the Info button allows you to alter the length of the new section.

Add creates a new, blank section at the end of the song.

To adjust the length of the new section, tap the Info button next to the section length. This is handy if you want to create a variation of an existing section and donвЂ™t want to redo all your hard work.

Duplicate creates a copy of the current section and adds it to the end of the piece.

Tap a few of the loop names to hear what they sound like. These can be great starting points for your own compositions or can even form complete soundtracks in their own right. The Loop browser contains several hundred Apple Loops in a wide variety of musical genres, from rock and electronic to orchestral and world music. In the control bar, tap the Loop browser button ( 4.6). Now the View button should be visible on the left side of the control bar.ДЄt first, you see a fairly empty screen, with a timeline across the top and a small piano icon in the upper-left corner. Tap the Record button, play a few notes, and tap Play again to stop recording. On the iPhone, Tracks view isnвЂ™t visible in a new song until you record something. The left side of the screen is the beginning of your song, and the instruments stack from top to bottom. Tracks view shows your song as a timeline, much like iMovie displays your movie. Since the Loop browser isnвЂ™t available from any of the Instrument screens, switch to Tracks view by tapping the Tracks view button in the control bar across the top of the screen.

Tap Keyboard again to open the Keyboard instrument.

Since youвЂ™re going to be working with loops, it doesnвЂ™t really matter which instrument you choose. Tap the + icon in the upper-left corner to create a new, empty song and reopen the Touch Instrument browser ( 4.5). GarageBand automatically saves your current creation as вЂњMy Song,вЂќ but thatвЂ™s okay.

In the upper-left corner of the Keyboard window, tap My Songs on the iPhone, tap the disclosure triangle to reveal My Songs.

Since youвЂ™re building a brand new song, you want to make sure you begin with an empty canvas. When you opened the Keyboard instrument earlier, GarageBand automatically created a new song using that instrument. It also has fewer loops available, but there are still plenty to get you started. The trick is, the Loop browser is a bit harder to find on the iPad and iPhone version of GarageBand than it is on the Mac. In addition to playable instruments, GarageBand includes a number of pre-recorded loops that make it easy to build a song from scratch. Okay, itвЂ™s time to build a soundtrack for your video. Learn More о”ЂBuy Build a Soundtrack Using Loops IPad and iPhone Video: Film, Edit, and Share the Apple Way

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