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
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Choose genres and drummers in GarageBand on Mac
Each genre comes with a number of drummers who have their own drum kit, percussion instruments and distinct playing style.
When you add a Drummer track to the project, a default genre and drummer are loaded, along with a default patch associated with the drummer. You can change the genre and the drummer, and these changes influence all regions on the track. If you change a drummer, a new patch is loaded, which means the drum kit or percussion instruments as well as the kit mix are replaced with that of the new drummer. However, it’s possible to choose a new drummer without loading a new patch.
Note: Some drummers are available only after you download additional content.
Choose a genre and drummer
In GarageBand on Mac, open the Library (if it is not already open).
Choose a genre from the Drummer menu.
You can choose Rock, Alternative, Songwriter, R&B, Electronic, Hip-Hop or Percussion.
The available drummers for the chosen genre appear. If you hold the pointer over the name of a drummer, a description of the drummer’s playing style appears.
Click a drummer.
The name and picture of the selected drummer appears at the top of the Library and the default patch for that drummer is loaded into the Drummer Editor.
Do any of the following:
Choose another drummer: Choose another drummer in the Drummer menu.
Choose another genre: Choose a different genre from the Drummer menu.