GarageBand User Guide
- Welcome
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- Play a lesson
- Choose the input source for your guitar
- Customise the lesson window
- See how well you played a lesson
- Measure your progress over time
- Slow down a lesson
- Change the mix of a lesson
- View full-page music notation
- View glossary topics
- Practise guitar chords
- Tune your guitar in a lesson
- Open lessons in the GarageBand window
- Get additional Learn to Play lessons
- If your lesson doesn’t finish downloading
- Touch Bar shortcuts
- Glossary
- Copyright
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Drummer Editor in GarageBand on Mac
If you add a Drummer track to a project, you can view and edit Drummer track and region parameters in the Drummer Editor.
In the Library, you can choose drum genres and drummers, which apply to all regions in the Drummer track. You can choose presets for the selected drummer from either the Library or the left side of the Drummer Editor. Presets offer a quick way to browse predefined, region-based Drummer Editor settings, including kit piece pattern variations and fill settings.
The right side of the editor includes region-based settings, an XY pad for adjusting the complexity and loudness of the region performance, and controls for editing performance parameters, including kit piece pattern variations and fill settings.
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Genres and drummers area: Select a genre to view the drummers for that genre, then select the drummer for the track.
Drummer presets list: Choose a preset for the selected Drummer region. A preset consists of all region settings, visible to the right of the presets area.
XY pad: Adjust the complexity and loudness of the region performance.
Drum kit controls: Turn on different instruments, and choose between different variations for the drum and percussion pieces. You also have the option to play half time or double time for kick and snare.
Performance controls: Adjust the number and length of fills using the Fills knob. Adjust the shuffle feel of the region performance using the Swing knob.
Open the Drummer Editor
In GarageBand on Mac, do one of the following:
Double-click a Drummer region on a Drummer track.
Select one or more Drummer regions on a Drummer track, then click the Editors button
in the control bar.
Select a Drummer track, then click the Editors button
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For more information about working in the Drummer Editor, see Intro to the Drummer Editor in GarageBand on Mac.