From the course: GarageBand Essential Training
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Add tracks - GarageBand Tutorial
From the course: GarageBand Essential Training
Add tracks
- [Instructor] Alright, so previously, we created a new project from the empty project template, and in doing so, we created this song with a single track, this classic electric piano track. With the exception of working with GarageBand's built-in loops, any time you want to add an instrument or sound to your recording, you have to first create a new track to hold the sound you're gonna be recording or bringing in. You can create a new track, either by choosing track, new track, by hitting Option + Command + N on your keyboard, or by clicking the new-track button up here. Then you'll be asked to choose a track type. And you have to decide whether this is going to be a software instrument track, one of two types of audio, or real instrument, tracks, or a drummer track. Software instrument tracks are for recording sounds from a MIDI source. We'll be getting into this much more later, but MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. Essentially, a software track is a track where…
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