This is definitely the best tutorial video on how to built drummer track in Garageband I've seen so far! Very interesting! But what I'd like to do is to copy a live drum track to a Garageband's drummer track to get the "sound" of the drummer I choose. Is that possible?
OMG I cannot believe it took me 6 years to finally discover this video and this channel. I was not aware of any of these tricks and they make a huge difference in my creative life. I've often used drummer, but only to export the audio out and use it in another DAW, adding additional beats in that DAW to kind of spice things up. And I've always thought you just get what you get, so it was always a lot of trial and error, mostly error. But this video is a game changer. THANK YOU!!!
Patrick, quite a chill teach... your easygoing dialogue, candor and pace convey the intangible easiness that is GarageBand to a newbie. Its all complicated for us dingbats with ears over eyes until a great coach frames the instruction smoothly. Thank you for audibly highlighting how simple and temporal extracting these techniques are; thus, elevating stale drab loop projects into humanized, natural pro level work. Did you play a role in ROLAND's 'Natural Sound" 15-year+ R&D project!!!??? Thank you, much respect.
Hi Ya Patrick. I am new to Mac and Garageband (30 year guitar player) and I am having a blast discovering it. Your video was an amazing help. Thanks to you I can add fills, different parts etc. Real well explained my friend. Cheers from Montreal
Tks a lot, great video. I missed my favorite feature about drums: define the arrangement track before adding the drum track and then it will follow it automatically
Totally agree! Arrangement tabs>play bass part>call up drummer>midi edit....now I need a way to get this midi out of GB into my friends Superior Drummer - any tips? Thanks
Amazing! I was trying to figure out how to eliminate the annoying crash cymbal that hits every 4 bars. Now I'll just convert the loop to midi and easily remove all of the crashes quite easily, thanks so much!
Great stuff Patrick .... there are so many RUclips videos out there on Garageband .... some good and some not so good .... but yours are one of the the best, well paced and easiest to understand of all. I have just bought your special deal bundle with the mixing and mastering ebooks, and they are just as well paced and easy to understand. Fab.I just want to ask one thing .... how do you change the key of a loop to match the key to your song, so that they go together? Keep up the good work!
Michael L. Castle Garageband doesn't make it easy to extract it's MIDI files - here's a tutorial on how to do it: scotttroyer.com/2014/05/export-midi-from-garageband/
Hi Garageband guide. Great video. I just wonder if you know how to copy and paste a drum section without it changing. Is it possible to lock the drum section so when you paste it in in a different are it plays the same? I believe it tries to emulate what you are playing but even with 'follow' off and no other instrument sections recorded it still changes! A few people have been trying to find this out and I fear there is no way of locking it. Even the work around of saving as a midi track then converting the instrument to a drum kit doesn't seem to work that well! Any help would be great. Thanks again, Damian.
@@PeteStormTV I didn't mate. Just have to play around with it, move things around and mess with things until you get it right from luck over judgment! Then don't touch it again! Let me know if you ever sort it man!
Great stuff. Hey, I wanted share something I stumbled upon recently. If you create a guide track prior to creating the drummer track, it will not only automatically fill the regions separately for each section of the track, but will also be more intuitive in those sections. I recently recorded a song with a loop, added the guide track, then had a total "aha" moment when I saw what the drummer track did. I have no idea if this was a new feature or not, but it made drummer a lot easier for me.
Thanks for this, but not sure I understand fully. Can you explain what you mean by the guide track filling the regions separately for each section of the track? What is it filling the regions with? How does whatever it fills the regions with differ for each section? Thanks.
drutgat2 Absolutely. When you create the guide track (i.e. the arrangement track, labeling Intro, Verse, Chorus, etc.) before making the drummer track, the drummer track fills the various sections of the song automatically. It makes a chorus segment, a verse section, and so on. This makes editing the individual areas of your drummer track so much easier because it has already been segmented to match your arrangement. Also, I noticed that it seemed to read my mind for what I wanted in my intro, verse, chorus, and bridge. This was something I just noticed on the last song I recorded, so maybe it was dumb luck, but I did almost no editing of the drummer track on this particular song. Adding the arrangement track early really helped my workflow. Give it a try next recoding. I'm curious if anyone else has noticed it.
I love the new drummer feature in Gband. I wish there was an option to create your own though (via midi, etc.). Sometimes I know what I want the beat to be but have to play around with different drummers until I get close to what I hear in my head.
You can - Open a software instrument track, select from the drum kits available and either use a midi controller/keyboard to 'play' your drum kit, or use Garageband's built in musical typing feature.
Hey Patrick, I just bought a Mac and was wanting to record drums acoustically. I've noticed that the library section when recording your own instrument only defaults to Voice, Guitar and Bass. In the older version of Garageband, I remember there was an option to enhance drum sounds. Do you have any tips or recommend anything to help enhance the sound? Thanks in advance.
I have a song all but completed minus some final EQing but I realize I now want to extend the intro with some ambient keys and such. How (if at all) can I go about making space in the front end of the song to allow that? P.s this video is extremely helpful. Well done !👍🏻
Me again Guide. Struggling with a drum track problem. How do I create bars in the middle of a song where the drums go silent (for a lone guitar riff etc) and then come in again? And go out again and come in again etc.... Zeppelin's Black Dog would be an idea of what I would want to do. I have tried and searched and just can't create those silent parts. Would you do that in the "show arrangement" stage or when the drums are all programmed? I hope this makes sense. Any help would be much appreciated. Like all your other help :-)
You can 'cut out' the section you want the drums to go silent - highlight the Drummer region, move the playhead to where you want your quiet bit to start and hit ⌘+T to cut. Repeat at the point you want it to end and delete the part you don't need.
great video. would this be only way to properly end a song e.g. along with the crash of a cymbal ? I haven't found a way so far of doing it because if I add a drum section for that it will contain loads of other sounds. but there should be an easier way...any help?
When I use copy and paste a region the copy is not the same as the original. What am I doing wrong. The copy contains fills and different kick/snare patterns. In your video it works perfectly.What???
Hi Patrick, thanks for another great video. Is there a way to end a song using the Garage Band drummer as a real band would when it gradually slows down to a final hit? You know what I mean? Moving along at 4/4 80bpm and then at the end the whole band gradually slows and waits for a final head-nod and then big hit. The big hit isn't a problem but the gradual slowly down. Any advice? Thanks
Do you know if it is possible to change what notes lie on what part of the piano when writing drum parts? Because I want to be able to write drum parts and have them fall on the stave like they do on normal drum scores instead of having them grouped differently like GrangeBand does. Thanks :)
@thegaragebandguide so, with this technique, could we use human drum tracks, put them in "software intrument" track to convert them, and then use the GB sound on our human kick for instance ? thx
Has anyone worked out how to 'build' a repeated drum groove manually on GB for MacOS, adding layers as you go? Is there a plug in that can do this? (Cheap...Free?) A long winded workaround is using the Cycle record feature, setting a length, letting it loop as you 'tap in' your drum parts, then sending the various 'takes' off to separate tracks, then merging them back into one. (Phew!.... I'm worn out just typing that.) I'd love an option that built drum tracks non destructively as they looped... kinda the old fashioned way. Anyway... here's hoping! (And thanks heaps Patrick for your awesome and easy going Tutes as always)
hey i have a question that i hope that you can answer, How do you add drum kits to GarageBand and play it in the built in keyboard that GarageBand gives you? pleasse answer this because im having trouble.
Is it possible to make the drum section come in on the and-beat? For example at parts of my song the band jumps beats and comes in on 4and instead of 1. Other parts it's 1...
But if I record drum with microphone in single 8 channel (1 mic for snare 1 mic for Tom ecc.) can I convert the sound in midi or this method function only with midi track????
I'm really new to this, can i use my midi keyboard to make my own beats using the electronic drum kits? idk if that makes sense. I tried recording a beat using the electronic drum kit "boutique 78" but when i click record it doesn't do anything, so im guessing it's not possible?
After copying my drum track and pasting into the new default piano / MIDI audio track, the midi data appears but my mute button on that track is flashing and the visual representation of the audio track is black and white, not green. I have no idea how to allow the track to play in order to go in and start separating the individual drum sounds in order to edit. Can anyone help me out here. I've followed the instructions in the video to the letter but to no avail. I'm using a 2021 14" MacBook Pro and obviously a newer version of GarageBand.
+Phil Paradise (If you haven't found a video on this or did it yourself) I recently got my mpd26 and, when using garage band you have to set up your midi in your preferences. select one of the many drum kits and play. That's how i did.
Haha, although this is all good stuff, this is exactly how I’ve been compiling drum tracks since the invention of the DAW. I suppose I’ve been doing it right. 😬
Im afraid I can't mix a track for you Steve, but I have a guide that teaches you how to mix GarageBand projects to a professional level : thegaragebandguide.com/ultimate-mixing-guide Thanks for watching!
Good grief man, turn on follow for the kick and select your bass instead of picking a random pattern. Until you do that, the rest of this is just gonna be a noisy waste of time.
This is definitely the best tutorial video on how to built drummer track in Garageband I've seen so far! Very interesting! But what I'd like to do is to copy a live drum track to a Garageband's drummer track to get the "sound" of the drummer I choose. Is that possible?
No, unfortunately not.
I working on an EP in GarageBand and wasn't too convinced with the auto drummer...until now. This is a groove saver, thank you so much man!
OMG I cannot believe it took me 6 years to finally discover this video and this channel. I was not aware of any of these tricks and they make a huge difference in my creative life. I've often used drummer, but only to export the audio out and use it in another DAW, adding additional beats in that DAW to kind of spice things up. And I've always thought you just get what you get, so it was always a lot of trial and error, mostly error. But this video is a game changer. THANK YOU!!!
I've been wondering how to change up the beats' complexity and fills with GB drummer for YEARS! Awesome tutorial. Thanks a million!
My pleasure Jeff, thanks for watching!
Patrick, quite a chill teach... your easygoing dialogue, candor and pace convey the intangible easiness that is GarageBand to a newbie. Its all complicated for us dingbats with ears over eyes until a great coach frames the instruction smoothly.
Thank you for audibly highlighting how simple and temporal extracting these techniques are; thus, elevating stale drab loop projects into humanized, natural pro level work.
Did you play a role in ROLAND's 'Natural Sound" 15-year+ R&D project!!!??? Thank you, much respect.
Hi Ya Patrick. I am new to Mac and Garageband (30 year guitar player) and I am having a blast discovering it. Your video was an amazing help. Thanks to you I can add fills, different parts etc. Real well explained my friend. Cheers from Montreal
Awesome! Thanks for watching!
Tks a lot, great video. I missed my favorite feature about drums: define the arrangement track before adding the drum track and then it will follow it automatically
Totally agree! Arrangement tabs>play bass part>call up drummer>midi edit....now I need a way to get this midi out of GB into my friends Superior Drummer - any tips? Thanks
Amazing! I was trying to figure out how to eliminate the annoying crash cymbal that hits every 4 bars. Now I'll just convert the loop to midi and easily remove all of the crashes quite easily, thanks so much!
Custom fill section was very helpful, thank-you!
I had no idea I had been looking for the very help you offer. Thanks.
Great stuff Patrick .... there are so many RUclips videos out there on Garageband .... some good and some not so good .... but yours are one of the the best, well paced and easiest to understand of all. I have just bought your special deal bundle with the mixing and mastering ebooks, and they are just as well paced and easy to understand. Fab.I just want to ask one thing .... how do you change the key of a loop to match the key to your song, so that they go together? Keep up the good work!
OMG, your explanation of how to take a dum track and make it a MIDI track is a game changer. THANK YOU!
It's definitely a powerful wee trick! Thanks for watching!
@@TheGaragebandGuide Solid gold 🙏 Thank you 😊
Easy and thorough explanations. This video was super helpful. Thank you!
Great info Patrick! Now I wonder if one can export the midi file from the created software instrument to say, another DAW? That would be way kewl!
Michael L. Castle Garageband doesn't make it easy to extract it's MIDI files - here's a tutorial on how to do it: scotttroyer.com/2014/05/export-midi-from-garageband/
Great video... I had been looking for something exactly like this for a while. Using Drummer to actually MAKE a track.
Hi Garageband guide. Great video. I just wonder if you know how to copy and paste a drum section without it changing. Is it possible to lock the drum section so when you paste it in in a different are it plays the same? I believe it tries to emulate what you are playing but even with 'follow' off and no other instrument sections recorded it still changes! A few people have been trying to find this out and I fear there is no way of locking it. Even the work around of saving as a midi track then converting the instrument to a drum kit doesn't seem to work that well! Any help would be great. Thanks again, Damian.
I'm having the same problem. Its all over the place. Did u ever fix it?
@@PeteStormTV I didn't mate. Just have to play around with it, move things around and mess with things until you get it right from luck over judgment! Then don't touch it again! Let me know if you ever sort it man!
Have to do it all in midi, takes forever
Hi Patrick! Many thanks for the tutorial! The part about deep editing is super-useful! Great job!
Glad you found it useful Olga. Thanks for watching!
Very good and helpful video!!! Thank you very much!
+Gus Hillen Thank you for watching Gus!
Cheers patti! Thank you soooo much bro. MANY THANKS From NZ
+shelldrake11 Cheers! Thanks for watching from sunny Scotland!!
Thank for this! One of the most useful videos for me, like... maybe ever.
Didn't know u could get much more outta that drummer, Awesome info thank you!!
I am relatively new to GB. That last trick was nice!!!
Really helpful stuff, Patrick. Thanks mate.
Appreciate you taking the time to watch 👍
Hey, Patrick, man, this instructional is Slammin'!!! Thanks for these expert tips!
+Frank Colón Thanks for watching Frank!
Great stuff. Hey, I wanted share something I stumbled upon recently. If you create a guide track prior to creating the drummer track, it will not only automatically fill the regions separately for each section of the track, but will also be more intuitive in those sections. I recently recorded a song with a loop, added the guide track, then had a total "aha" moment when I saw what the drummer track did. I have no idea if this was a new feature or not, but it made drummer a lot easier for me.
Now THAT is an amazingly awesome hidden feature!!! Nice work dailytaylor - you mind if I share it?
TheGaragebandGuide Of course!
Thanks for this, but not sure I understand fully. Can you explain what you mean by the guide track filling the regions separately for each section of the track? What is it filling the regions with? How does whatever it fills the regions with differ for each section? Thanks.
drutgat2 Absolutely. When you create the guide track (i.e. the arrangement track, labeling Intro, Verse, Chorus, etc.) before making the drummer track, the drummer track fills the various sections of the song automatically. It makes a chorus segment, a verse section, and so on. This makes editing the individual areas of your drummer track so much easier because it has already been segmented to match your arrangement. Also, I noticed that it seemed to read my mind for what I wanted in my intro, verse, chorus, and bridge. This was something I just noticed on the last song I recorded, so maybe it was dumb luck, but I did almost no editing of the drummer track on this particular song. Adding the arrangement track early really helped my workflow. Give it a try next recoding. I'm curious if anyone else has noticed it.
dailytaylor Thanks so much.
Brilliant stuff, Patrick.
Thanks.
Thanks for watching drutgat2
Thanks so much Patrick, your tips really help solved my problem!! Great lesson!!!
Peace.
+Pat Reid My pleasure Pat. Thanks for watching - You ROCK!
Excellent! Thanks for this video.
Does the "How to Use Drummer" video no longer exist? The link at 0:59 is definitely not working for me.
I love the new drummer feature in Gband. I wish there was an option to create your own though (via midi, etc.). Sometimes I know what I want the beat to be but have to play around with different drummers until I get close to what I hear in my head.
You can - Open a software instrument track, select from the drum kits available and either use a midi controller/keyboard to 'play' your drum kit, or use Garageband's built in musical typing feature.
Hey Patrick, I just bought a Mac and was wanting to record drums acoustically. I've noticed that the library section when recording your own instrument only defaults to Voice, Guitar and Bass. In the older version of Garageband, I remember there was an option to enhance drum sounds. Do you have any tips or recommend anything to help enhance the sound? Thanks in advance.
❤️ This.
Happy New Year Patrick!!
Good information. Thank you!!
Awesome! Thanks!
I have a song all but completed minus some final EQing but I realize I now want to extend the intro with some ambient keys and such.
How (if at all) can I go about making space in the front end of the song to allow that?
P.s this video is extremely helpful. Well done !👍🏻
Me again Guide. Struggling with a drum track problem. How do I create bars in the middle of a song where the drums go silent (for a lone guitar riff etc) and then come in again? And go out again and come in again etc.... Zeppelin's Black Dog would be an idea of what I would want to do. I have tried and searched and just can't create those silent parts. Would you do that in the "show arrangement" stage or when the drums are all programmed? I hope this makes sense. Any help would be much appreciated. Like all your other help :-)
You can 'cut out' the section you want the drums to go silent - highlight the Drummer region, move the playhead to where you want your quiet bit to start and hit ⌘+T to cut. Repeat at the point you want it to end and delete the part you don't need.
Great tips, thanks!
great video thank you
Kev
+Kev Thompson Cheers, Kev, glad you found it useful!
Please make a tutorial about how to record electric guitars! and also acoustic guitars, some tricks you can teach... I already subscribed!
Luis Garcia Watch this space!
Thanks so much! Great vid!
+Maja Lisa Thanks for watching!!!
Very Helpful Patrick !!!!!!!!!
great video. would this be only way to properly end a song e.g. along with the crash of a cymbal ? I haven't found a way so far of doing it because if I add a drum section for that it will contain loads of other sounds. but there should be an easier way...any help?
Brilliant! Thank you!
When I use copy and paste a region the copy is not the same as the original. What am I doing wrong. The copy contains fills and different kick/snare patterns. In your video it works perfectly.What???
I'm having the same problem. Its all over the place. Did u ever fix it?
Great info, thank you.
No worries - thanks for watching!
Nicely done..
+Gordy Gordon Nicely commented ;)
Hi Patrick, thanks for another great video. Is there a way to end a song using the Garage Band drummer as a real band would when it gradually slows down to a final hit? You know what I mean? Moving along at 4/4 80bpm and then at the end the whole band gradually slows and waits for a final head-nod and then big hit. The big hit isn't a problem but the gradual slowly down. Any advice? Thanks
+Tom Spallone Yeah, using a similar system to Garageband's automation. I have a tutorial on it you can check out: thegaragebandguide.com/tempo-track
Do you know if it is possible to change what notes lie on what part of the piano when writing drum parts? Because I want to be able to write drum parts and have them fall on the stave like they do on normal drum scores instead of having them grouped differently like GrangeBand does. Thanks :)
thanks man, it helps a lot.
great tricks here man. thank you.
@thegaragebandguide so, with this technique, could we use human drum tracks, put them in "software intrument" track to convert them, and then use the GB sound on our human kick for instance ? thx
Now i know why it's a great tool !! Thank you :-)
This is awesome, thank you.
That's awesome! Thank you!
Has anyone worked out how to 'build' a repeated drum groove manually on GB for MacOS, adding layers as you go?
Is there a plug in that can do this? (Cheap...Free?) A long winded workaround is using the Cycle record feature, setting a length, letting it loop as you 'tap in' your drum parts, then sending the various 'takes' off to separate tracks, then merging them back into one. (Phew!.... I'm worn out just typing that.) I'd love an option that built drum tracks non destructively as they looped... kinda the old fashioned way.
Anyway... here's hoping! (And thanks heaps Patrick for your awesome and easy going Tutes as always)
...that was totally WICKED!!!!! Thank-you!!!!
How do you change the drum track part when you change to a chorus/ bridge
Perfect, thank you!
Excellent !
+William k Ryde :)
Is there a way to make the drummer go half time?
Much appreciative!!
hey i have a question that i hope that you can answer, How do you add drum kits to GarageBand and play it in the built in keyboard that GarageBand gives you? pleasse answer this because im having trouble.
Is it possible to make the drum section come in on the and-beat? For example at parts of my song the band jumps beats and comes in on 4and instead of 1. Other parts it's 1...
Patrick is a shoegazer I like it!
Does garageband 10 have different / more drum kits then previous versions?
Previous versions of Garageband didn't have the Drummer feature at all TYFLOL , so yes - definitely!
How do you sync your drummer to BMP of the song?
damn, this is exactly what i've been looking for the whole time. thank your
terima kasih :D
+Rifqi Aufan So glad to help Rifqi
But if I record drum with microphone in single 8 channel (1 mic for snare 1 mic for Tom ecc.) can I convert the sound in midi or this method function only with midi track????
Mixing a full beat loop from the Apple loops isn't that simple is it?
I'm really new to this, can i use my midi keyboard to make my own beats using the electronic drum kits? idk if that makes sense. I tried recording a beat using the electronic drum kit "boutique 78" but when i click record it doesn't do anything, so im guessing it's not possible?
Is there a double bass drum Heavy Metal drummer available in Garageband or a way to replicate one?
You can "tune" how much bass drum a drummer uses. I'm not sure if it works just like a trash metal drummer though. Will have to look into it.
Is it possible to get the drummer change tempo? I would like to have the intro of my song 100 bpm and the rest 120 bpm.
Yeah, I have a tutorial on it here: thegaragebandguide.com/tempo-track
Thank you!!
Cheers, really usefull.
Can you record in this format? I tried, and it won't allow me.
After copying my drum track and pasting into the new default piano / MIDI audio track, the midi data appears but my mute button on that track is flashing and the visual representation of the audio track is black and white, not green. I have no idea how to allow the track to play in order to go in and start separating the individual drum sounds in order to edit. Can anyone help me out here. I've followed the instructions in the video to the letter but to no avail. I'm using a 2021 14" MacBook Pro and obviously a newer version of GarageBand.
Is is possible to manually play your drums in Garageband 10.1???
+Phil Paradise I mean plugging my AKAI MPD18 pad controller wia midi and controlling the GB drum sounds so I can record a manual track...Thank you.
+Phil Paradise (If you haven't found a video on this or did it yourself)
I recently got my mpd26 and, when using garage band you have to set up your midi
in your preferences. select one of the many drum kits and play. That's how i did.
Imagine if we could save our own drummer presets
Anyways pretty nice video wanted to teach this to my starter
Existe canal en español???
What about the intro?
Haha, although this is all good stuff, this is exactly how I’ve been compiling drum tracks since the invention of the DAW.
I suppose I’ve been doing it right. 😬
Como puedo escribir batería??
Excellent! BTW I'm subscriber 10,660
Patrick , I mix on GarageBand 10, can I pay you to make my songs sound better ?
Im afraid I can't mix a track for you Steve, but I have a guide that teaches you how to mix GarageBand projects to a professional level : thegaragebandguide.com/ultimate-mixing-guide
Thanks for watching!
🤯
Who‘s watching this in 2021? 🤗
as a Scotsman, are you proud of William Wallace?
Spanish please!
Set the playback speed to 1.5x. You're welcome.
Good grief man, turn on follow for the kick and select your bass instead of picking a random pattern. Until you do that, the rest of this is just gonna be a noisy waste of time.
Great video, thanks mate!
Thanks for watching man! 👍