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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Intro to the Drummer Editor in GarageBand on Mac
In the Drummer Editor, you can choose different presets and edit the Drummer’s performance.
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In the Library, you can choose drum genres and drummers, whose sound and playing style are applied to all content on 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, which influence the complexity, loudness and other aspects of selected Drummer regions.
If you have a device with a Touch Bar, you can edit Drummer parameters using the Smart Controls screen and play the selected drum kit and percussion instruments using the Drum Pads screen.
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
.
The Drummer Editor opens below the Tracks area.