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Subtitle hi this is mike with
quick tutororials today I'm going to show you how to use garage
band on the iphone if you used garageband before not to long ago they updated it and
added some new features in chains to couple things around or the things that they changed
was the yes on selection screen view you used it for you probably remember it was
kind of a side scrolling selection with the year of
your most recent projects on the
far left scrolling back to the old as projects but
are the kind of change that now we can organize it either by the name of your songs or by
date that you've worked on and
on and the kind of makes it easier to see multiple songs at once and
you are the songs as well use your scroll through so lets go ahead and
start a new song to do that your going to tap on this plus
icon in the top left corner here and then tap on new song and
so here is where you select the instruments you have
your drums
guitar amp or audio recorder and sampler smart drums smart strings smart base smart keyboard
smart guitars keyboards i'll go into depth of all of these in some
following tutorials but let's go ahead and start off with the drums
ok so the first thing we're gonna do it is set the tempo to do that it had tap on this
star in the top right corner here and then tap on so song
and and tempo button and now run a tap on the tempo to play along
with its looking around like one twenty five was
good so the Set it to that you can manually set it up and down by tapping
these two buttons so i will set it at one twenty five and hit
done and so lets go back to that menu and I'm going
to talk about some of the other options on here
so this top option is whether the metronome is on or off
lets go ahead and leave that on this is whether you have a count in for your
recording so
if it's on right now will have with the four bar accounting for actually starts
recording and then below that is the sound of the Metronome
right now it is set on wood block I kind of prefer to use a hi hat so it's set that to
hi hat Lets go back to that menu
this is where you set the key of the song you can set any note along with that major
or minor for simplicity lets just set it to C major
This is where you can set
for or whether the instruments will follow the Song Key
so let's say you started off in C Major
and played a piano line and then changed it to A Major
It would transpose that piano line up to A major
so that it would fit with all the other instruments you play there after
lets go ahead and leave that on and leave that on that
and tap done below that is the time signature and you can
choose between four four three four or six eight
lets go ahead and leave it on four four below that is the Fade out it's what are your
song will fade out at the end and
airplay bluetooth that's it you wanna send the sound from garage band to some kind of
speaker or something lets leave that off
and then below that you have your help section for it finding out how to do different things
in garageband so it's good and tap done and
so there's a couple different sounds you get out of these drums and some are a little more
hidden than others so you have bass snare tom tom tom
Ride crash hi hat you can actaully get two different hi hat sounds one from tapping on
the right or an open one by tapping on the left
you got the snare sounds by hitting in the center there
or you can get a rim tap by tapping on the right side
or a rim shot by tapping on the left you can get a standard ride sound by tapping
anywhere along here or if you wanna get the bell sound by tapping
on the bell if you wanted to do like a role on the drums without actually playing it
you can tap down two fingers to and then the farther apart they are the faster the roll
will go ok lets go ahead and let's record a drumbeat
here
you may notice that it's not really what I played
What's going on here is that quantization is set
so in order to change that we are going to have to turn that off so we are going to tap
this star in the top right corner and tap on tracks
and go down to quantization and tap on that and and lets go ahead and turn that off
on this screen you can actually set it to quantize what you played either quarter
notes eight notes or sixteenth notes thirthysecond note or sixty fourth note what quantization
does it lets say you play a note that was a little
bit off lets say you had a snare that wasn't quite on the two or the four
if you had quarter note quantization on it would move that snare over so it was right
on the two or the four you can also set it for triplet quantization
or swing
what i kinda played had a kinda had a little swing to it so lets see how it sounds with
a light swing quantization sounds pretty cool
Ok i think i might just leave that on so lets go ahead and tap done
I'm going to actually show you some the other options in this menu here this top option
is solo so if you had some other instruments playing
you could it turned that on then you'd only hear this instrument this is your volume of
it as you can it controls the volume this is you pan wether its going to the left
or the right speaker this adds echo and this is your reverb slider
this is if you have mulitple recordings of drums and you wanted to kind of merge them
together you would turn that on this is your velocity sensitivity
right now it is set on medium lets set it to high and i'll show you what that does
I'm going to stop this so I can show you if you just tap it lightlly you get a soft
sound if you tap it harder you get a louder sound there
this is the bass with cymbal so whenever you hit your cymbal the bass drum will also hit
and below that are master effects this is where you can change what effects
You're actually using what that reverb and echo delay sliders
so lets try a different one lets do rock and roll echo
and hear the difference there so lets start this
that sounds about good
lets go ahead and stop that and if you want to get to the arrangement view
you are going to tap this button next to an arrow here
and this is where you can add more instruments and actually arrange your song a little bit
that's gonna be it for this tutorial on the next couple's Tutorials I'm going to
show you some the other instruments and some other
stuff you can do in Garageband stay tuned