This is absolutely the holy grail of someone who does music part time and doesnt have the time for proper sound production sessions you sir are awesome!
Dang, brother.. i’ve been using Ableton here as my dedicated DAW since about 2015.. I was a Cubase before that anti-ProTools.. I’m sure you remember the proxy wars… And I know this sounds lame… But I’m in the studio today working… And I’ve never punched in! I just start another track… That like was such an epiphany today! And I’m die hard, Ableton! So thank you for the help dude! That was really cool starting my day to watch the video that was it very useful tool that I’m going to incorporate! I mean, I know Ableton I knew everything you were saying, but that really took me for a ride… When you punched in,/ it was like oh shit this car flies?😜 right on brother keep it up!
Thank you for bypassing the techie talk and making this as simple of an intro to the DAW as possible for budding recording guitarists. Your video helped immensely! Thank you 100x over.
Thanks for this. I've owned ableton for a long time. I've finally found what seems to be a permanent place to set up my gear. All the little things you explained in this video(in plain English) are very helpful getting started again. As you said, there is a bit of a learning curve. So plain English instructions with real world examples, make it much easier to absorb.
I'm absolutely loving this new set up. Ableton has made it all possible to bring everything together. BTW....halion 7 has really made it easy to get started making music in Ableton without being an expert musician! Just dive in and get creative.
Thanks Chad; circled back to watch again. Priceless for summiting that "Live 12 & Helix" peak. Appreciate you Sir; carry on! Cheers from rainy WA state.
Loved your Helix tutorials and your natural, easy-to-follow, no nonsense, to-the-point, near-exhaustive and guitar focused instruction makes Ableton Live (a program I've used for a couple of years) more accessible. You mentioned MIDI. I use my MorningStar MC8 midi controller as a foot controller for Ableton's keyboard commands and it works beautifully. It keeps things simple. I am on the verge of replacing my physical looping pedal (and other pedals) with Ableton. I can't let perceived "purity of musicianship" interfere with my creativity. Anyway, you have a gift. Thank you. Addendum: The looping demo at 12:00 is a jaw-dropping game changer for those who struggle to get their loops in sync with a physical pedal. OMG!
Im so glad I found this video. I used to record guitar many years ago on ableton live, but completely forgot how to use this software. Thank you so much for the information!
Dude, this vid was exactly what I needed at the precise time I needed! Thank you so much. I'm gonna look to see what else you have, particularly on Ableton, as your other stuff could also be beneficial to me. So... subscribing it is then..... :-)
Glad this popped up on my feed. I just bought a 4i4 and it comes with Ableton Lite. I have no experience using it, so this is very helpful to get started.
Loved it! Now we can get straight to recording with my 15y daughter playing her guitar ❤ Thanks! Would like to see more Ableton content but right now this was exactly what we needed.
Great video! I’ve been putting off learning Ableton for the year I’ve had my Scarlett 😂 Thank you for this! I just want to clean up my playing along with my favorite songs!
I don't have a guitar yet, planning to buy it. I play on my midi keyboard for now but even so I learned so many small cool things about Ableton in this video. Very good lesson man. Much love, cheers 👍
I'm at the start of this and that gave me more than enough to start experimenting. Thanks. I'm hoping that it will provide a notepad to preserve ideas that fall out of practice.
So glad i saw this before i cracked trying to figure that out. Just wanted my guitar to get picked up by Ableton and have a bit of a beat to play with, maybe loop and even save. Big help ya!
Confirmed some suspicions I had. I am also a guitar/bass player who received a copy of Ableton with an interface I purchased and did not have a clue where to start. Thanks!
THANK YOU! For making this for musicians that actually play instruments and not just for electronic music. Some doesn't seem to understand the diffirent struggle it can get you. I really find this helpful. I've had ableton for a few years, as you i got it with my interface but never really learned. This is helpful! I'd like to know how to properly hook up guitars and so on... Seems like i get a miss-sound or something. What's the best way to get nice sound? Mine sounds muffled or so... Maybe the answer is in already existing videos, will check your work! Anyhow, thanks again!
Please make some more ableton content - I’m fairly new but not completely green to it. That said I found your video extremely helpful and easy to follow so thankyou. Maybe a follow up video for some more technical recording tips. Or maybe some mixing tips would be great.
Great insight.. I just finished producing 2 tracks. I told myself . Time to bust out my guitar 🎸. Was thinking just to run an audio channel, set a return/ send to an onboard effect and manipulate the signal 🎸
Thank you for this tutorial. I've often wondered how a solo guitarist might employ some of the live performance features like launching clips using a controller for speed and efficiency.
Loved this video ...!! Thank you brother for a detailed explanation helped me out for sure .... need help with tones for Gospel worship on NUXMG-30 pedal board ... it would be so great to get help with this 🤜🏻🤛🏻
Wow. I bought a Focusrite 4i4 over a year ago. But I've been intimidated with the "newer" technology. I started out on a Tascam 8 track CASSETTE recorder in the 1990s. I've currently got a Tascam DP-03SD (I think) that is digital yet still uses SD cards for recording. So jumping from that to a DAW and Focusrite is daunting to say the least. BUT this video is EXACTLY what I was looking for ! I do original instrumental guitar compositions. I don't have a clue how to program my Alesis SR-16(?). I have a standard Yamaha 61-key keyboard. I STILL have only two guitars : my EMG 81s-modified Westone from 1987 and a Takamine nylon SC-32(?) classical. That's it. Lol. This is a WHOLE NEW BALL OF WAX for me my friend. But I finally got brave enough to pull everything out and TRY to figure out modern DAW recording. Thanks to this video I FINALLY have a decent understanding of what to do as a GUITARIST. I'm sure all the VST stuff is amazing but I just want to figure out the basics first! I know there is a way to run my Fender Mustang GTX-100 into the 4i4 and Ableton but I can't figure it out. It's really difficult to find THE EXACT video tutorials I need but I've FINALLY found a good one in this one. Thanks! I've got a good idea of what to do now.
Thank you so much. Just started using it as a total newbie to this and you’ve got me going so quickly on this. Appreciate so much. Will see if you did any more.
Hi Chad, like the video. Practical and looking forward for your next video and maybe you can focus on recording acoustic guitar using mics.? Greetings from Holland, John
Thank you for your guidance, bloody brilliant. I'm new to Ableton Lite. I write music and have currently bought a DAW by focus rite. The software is all new to me and very hard to find direction. Iv managed to record vocal and aucostic guitar at the same time, but the rest is lost on me. Also, how to lay a drum track or the other software that comes with it. All down loaded, but it's still very confusing. Look forward to more advice and guidance. Please keep up the good work 👏
Great video Chad. So many tutorials go too fast and try to cram WAY too much into a session. Your pace is just right. One question…I use Windows and a ASIO driver does not show up as an option. Also, Ableton says that ASIO4all does not work well with Focusrite 2i2 (my interface). Any suggestions?
Glad you liked the video! My first suggestion would be to make sure that you have installed the focusrite drivers and rebooted your computer. At that point you should see it as an option in ableton. Select asio in the first drop down for drivers, then the bottom drop down should show the focusrite.
Very nice video! I'm a basic user of Apple Logic Pro and I find it very intuitive. I have installed Live 11 Lite and is curious to see if it can compete with Logic. I like the look of Ableton Live and the minimalist flat style, but it seems like it's mostly made for MIDI and electronic music. Or so I thought =) I only record real life guitar and bass so this was a very helpful video. I would love to see you do videos on how to do fade ins/outs, create markers, change volume for a track and separate clips, how to export a song to MP3, use third-party plugins such as amp sims etc. My main goal when creating songs, is to just get down to recording with as little fuss as possible. Can the Ableton Live workflow provide that? Thanks!
Hi Chad, can you make a video about a general idea for mixing guitars (clean, crunch, lead, etc) on ableton? That would be very helpful. Thank you in advance!
Hey Chad. This video was great and super helpful. I’m setting up a very small home studio and went with Ableton as it came free with my UA Volt interface. I also purchased the Akai APC Key 25 as a midi keyboard. I’m looking to record classic rock kind of stuff and use midi mostly for bass and drums. If you could do some videos on how to add midi instruments and which ones sound best they would be super helpful. Would like to create a full rick band sound using only my guitars and the rest via midi. Great video and super helpful. Keep them coming please! You got a like and subscribe out of me. Have a great day.
Great job Chad. question . I have pre recorded files, i guess i can drop these in software and edit. Or possibly change file type. Like from Wav to Mp3. that good stuff, Yes i am going to creating some new tracks , Instrumental most likely
Glad you liked the video! Yes you can drag and drop files into Ableton. I know you used to need .wave files, but I think you can do .wav or .mp3 at this point if I'm not mistaken.
Thank you so much for this video! I could never figure how to keep the metronome on when Abelton started to record. I feel like a fool. I really hope you continue the series. I don't think my looper worked the same way as yours did in the video. My start and stops were greyed out. I wonder if this feature is not available in Abelton Lite?
I have a question if you’ve got the time. say I record 30 minutes of guitar playing through my boss me-80, just flipping through the presets and getting creative, how would I then cut the bits I like be it a riff, lick,chorus etc… and put them in files to use and work on later when I find use for them. I only had Ableton and my Scarlett Solo a week, and although I can play guitar I’m having a hard time with the software as I’m computer illiterate 😂, I’ve already watched this vid about ten times and i still need to keep coming back lol. Thank you 🇬🇧🤘
Glad you're enjoying the video! There are a couple of ways to achieve what you are wanting to do. If you want to export the sections to wav files use the loop bracket to mark the beginning and end of the section you want to export. You can also click and drag to select the section you want to export then right click and choose "loop selection" to mark it. Then go to file>export and that should do the trick. Note if you do the loop selection option it will turn on the loop function, which will be highlighted in yellow at the top to the right of the play/stop/record buttons. You will need to click that to turn the looping off. Another option is that if you want to drag the clips into the session view to have them as clips that can be triggered from there simply follow the same procedure, but after the clip is selected instead of exporting click and drag the audio and while holding down the mouse button hit the tab key to switch over to the session view. Then you can drop the audio into any of the clip spots and it will be available there to play on its own. This would be handy if you had a riff that was a verse section and a riff that was a chorus section. You could drag them over as clips into the session view then trigger them on the fly if you wanted to experiment with them that way. Let me know if this helps. Cheers
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This is absolutely the holy grail of someone who does music part time and doesnt have the time for proper sound production sessions you sir are awesome!
Long time guitarist and first time DAW user... this stuff gold! Glad I found this video because I was lost!
Dang, brother.. i’ve been using Ableton here as my dedicated DAW since about 2015.. I was a Cubase before that anti-ProTools.. I’m sure you remember the proxy wars… And I know this sounds lame… But I’m in the studio today working… And I’ve never punched in! I just start another track… That like was such an epiphany today! And I’m die hard, Ableton! So thank you for the help dude! That was really cool starting my day to watch the video that was it very useful tool that I’m going to incorporate! I mean, I know Ableton I knew everything you were saying, but that really took me for a ride… When you punched in,/ it was like oh shit this car flies?😜 right on brother keep it up!
This was extremely helpful, I am attempting my first guitar recording with Ableton Live 11 Lite which came with my Focusrite Scarlet 2i2. Thank you!
Thank you for bypassing the techie talk and making this as simple of an intro to the DAW as possible for budding recording guitarists. Your video helped immensely! Thank you 100x over.
I was Tired N SLEPT OFF CHECKING HOW TO CONNECT MY GUITAR N THEN Your Video played automatically and BANGON THIS IS WHAT I NEEDED.❤❤❤❤❤MEANS A LOT
Thanks for this. I've owned ableton for a long time. I've finally found what seems to be a permanent place to set up my gear.
All the little things you explained in this video(in plain English) are very helpful getting started again. As you said, there is a bit of a learning curve. So plain English instructions with real world examples, make it much easier to absorb.
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I'm absolutely loving this new set up.
Ableton has made it all possible to bring everything together.
BTW....halion 7 has really made it easy to get started making music in Ableton without being an expert musician! Just dive in and get creative.
Thanks Chad; circled back to watch again. Priceless for summiting that "Live 12 & Helix" peak. Appreciate you Sir; carry on! Cheers from rainy WA state.
Loved your Helix tutorials and your natural, easy-to-follow, no nonsense, to-the-point, near-exhaustive and guitar focused instruction makes Ableton Live (a program I've used for a couple of years) more accessible. You mentioned MIDI. I use my MorningStar MC8 midi controller as a foot controller for Ableton's keyboard commands and it works beautifully. It keeps things simple. I am on the verge of replacing my physical looping pedal (and other pedals) with Ableton. I can't let perceived "purity of musicianship" interfere with my creativity. Anyway, you have a gift. Thank you. Addendum: The looping demo at 12:00 is a jaw-dropping game changer for those who struggle to get their loops in sync with a physical pedal. OMG!
Im so glad I found this video. I used to record guitar many years ago on ableton live, but completely forgot how to use this software. Thank you so much for the information!
Legendary! I have stumbled around with computer recording for ages and this video is awesome. Thank you!
This is a great overview, especially for someone moving from Cubase. Thanks, Chad!
Dude, this vid was exactly what I needed at the precise time I needed! Thank you so much. I'm gonna look to see what else you have, particularly on Ableton, as your other stuff could also be beneficial to me. So... subscribing it is then..... :-)
This was the most helpful ableton 11 video I have seen! Thank you! Any chance we can get a tutorial of how to add/compose drums to tracks?
thanks man i really needed this video. ya hit the nail on the head with what i needed for a day 1 video as a guitarist looking at ableton. spot on!
great video, and you're very calm and well spoken which makes it even more enjoyable to learn. thanks!
Thanks Chad, I really appreciate the time you spent doing this.
Glad this popped up on my feed. I just bought a 4i4 and it comes with Ableton Lite. I have no experience using it, so this is very helpful to get started.
the best Ableton video I have ever seen. Learned so much! TY
Loved it! Now we can get straight to recording with my 15y daughter playing her guitar ❤ Thanks! Would like to see more Ableton content but right now this was exactly what we needed.
Great video! I’ve been putting off learning Ableton for the year I’ve had my Scarlett 😂 Thank you for this! I just want to clean up my playing along with my favorite songs!
I wish I’ve found this sooner! I just been stumbling my way through with tries and errors up to this point lol. This is great, Thank you!
Thank you Mr. Huskey. I'm a beginner with Ableton Live.
Thanks!
Thank you!!
This has been really helpful. New to Ableton so this is so useful. A video on how to import in drum loops would be great.
I don't have a guitar yet, planning to buy it. I play on my midi keyboard for now but even so I learned so many small cool things about Ableton in this video. Very good lesson man. Much love, cheers 👍
Ctrl + L is the looping shortcut for when you want quickly loop the selection. Super handy!
only good ableton video ive ever seen. fuck yeah dude, thanks.
thanks man i learned more in 20 minutes than i did in 4 days messing with it thanks make more please
Dude, this helped a ton to get started. Thank you. Give yourself a pat on the back and take the day off tomorrow :-)
I'm at the start of this and that gave me more than enough to start experimenting. Thanks. I'm hoping that it will provide a notepad to preserve ideas that fall out of practice.
So glad i saw this before i cracked trying to figure that out. Just wanted my guitar to get picked up by Ableton and have a bit of a beat to play with, maybe loop and even save. Big help ya!
Awesome Sir, i wish you continue doing it with more tutorial for guitar players
This is helpful, as a cello player (acoustic and electric), hard to find less techie videos
This was awesome! Perfect for me, starting to record my bass in Ableton. Thank you so much.
Great intro video and came in useful for coming back to Ableton after a long break :D
Confirmed some suspicions I had. I am also a guitar/bass player who received a copy of Ableton with an interface I purchased and did not have a clue where to start. Thanks!
THANK YOU! For making this for musicians that actually play instruments and not just for electronic music. Some doesn't seem to understand the diffirent struggle it can get you. I really find this helpful. I've had ableton for a few years, as you i got it with my interface but never really learned. This is helpful!
I'd like to know how to properly hook up guitars and so on... Seems like i get a miss-sound or something. What's the best way to get nice sound? Mine sounds muffled or so... Maybe the answer is in already existing videos, will check your work! Anyhow, thanks again!
This was great! I definitely look forward to more videos like this.
I found this very helpful. Thank you very much.
Please make some more ableton content - I’m fairly new but not completely green to it. That said I found your video extremely helpful and easy to follow so thankyou.
Maybe a follow up video for some more technical recording tips. Or maybe some mixing tips would be great.
Thank you. Just started to use Ableton 11 recently and this video was really usefull
Great video! Thanks much for helping me get started with Ableton!
Very grateful for the upload, awesome video!
Thanks man. Very helpful tutorial. Listening to you speak is easy and enjoyable - well done!
This video was exactly what I was looking for
this was So helpful please upload more videos like this
Thank you dude this is really helpful and I will be looking forward to seeing more to this series. new sub here 🤘🇬🇧
Great insight.. I just finished producing 2 tracks. I told myself . Time to bust out my guitar 🎸. Was thinking just to run an audio channel, set a return/ send to an onboard effect and manipulate the signal 🎸
Thank you for this tutorial. I've often wondered how a solo guitarist might employ some of the live performance features like launching clips using a controller for speed and efficiency.
Gracias Amigo! Your instructions are easy to follow.
Loved this video ...!! Thank you brother for a detailed explanation helped me out for sure .... need help with tones for Gospel worship on NUXMG-30 pedal board ... it would be so great to get help with this 🤜🏻🤛🏻
You are the man. Thanks for the video.
Wow. I bought a Focusrite 4i4 over a year ago. But I've been intimidated with the "newer" technology.
I started out on a Tascam 8 track CASSETTE recorder in the 1990s.
I've currently got a Tascam DP-03SD (I think) that is digital yet still uses SD cards for recording.
So jumping from that to a DAW and Focusrite is daunting to say the least.
BUT this video is EXACTLY what I was looking for !
I do original instrumental guitar compositions. I don't have a clue how to program my Alesis SR-16(?).
I have a standard Yamaha 61-key keyboard.
I STILL have only two guitars : my EMG 81s-modified Westone from 1987 and a Takamine nylon SC-32(?) classical. That's it. Lol.
This is a WHOLE NEW BALL OF WAX for me my friend.
But I finally got brave enough to pull everything out and TRY to figure out modern DAW recording.
Thanks to this video I FINALLY have a decent understanding of what to do as a GUITARIST.
I'm sure all the VST stuff is amazing but I just want to figure out the basics first!
I know there is a way to run my Fender Mustang GTX-100 into the 4i4 and Ableton but I can't figure it out.
It's really difficult to find THE EXACT video tutorials I need but I've FINALLY found a good one in this one.
Thanks! I've got a good idea of what to do now.
Thank you so much. Just started using it as a total newbie to this and you’ve got me going so quickly on this. Appreciate so much. Will see if you did any more.
I love ableton so glad I’m not a pro tool user but yes make a series because I need it bad thanks👍
Thank you, clean and easy. no BS.
Thanks a million. A great help👍🎸🙏🏼
Thank you, very helpful! ❤
Awesome, thank you. Such a big help.
Thank you!!! I didn't know the loop thing was in the arrangement view!?!
Thank you Sir great informative video 100% help
Thank you so much, very useful video!
Great stuff!! Thank you.
Thank you Chad for this Video….from Germany
Great instruction video. Thank you! Very useful.
Nice one brother, this will definitely help 😎
Awesome! Nice and straight-forward.. And a Guitar Player to boot! lol
Hi Chad, like the video. Practical and looking forward for your next video and maybe you can focus on recording acoustic guitar using mics.? Greetings from Holland, John
Thank you so much for the help!😎
Thank you. Very helpful. Very much appreciated
Thank you for your guidance, bloody brilliant. I'm new to Ableton Lite. I write music and have currently bought a DAW by focus rite. The software is all new to me and very hard to find direction.
Iv managed to record vocal and aucostic guitar at the same time, but the rest is lost on me.
Also, how to lay a drum track or the other software that comes with it. All down loaded, but it's still very confusing.
Look forward to more advice and guidance. Please keep up the good work 👏
Great video Chad. So many tutorials go too fast and try to cram WAY too much into a session. Your pace is just right.
One question…I use Windows and a ASIO driver does not show up as an option. Also, Ableton says that ASIO4all does not work well with Focusrite 2i2 (my interface). Any suggestions?
Glad you liked the video!
My first suggestion would be to make sure that you have installed the focusrite drivers and rebooted your computer.
At that point you should see it as an option in ableton.
Select asio in the first drop down for drivers, then the bottom drop down should show the focusrite.
great upload thank you, also appreciate you're using windows!
Great video. Thanks!
Thanks man this was very helpful.
Perfect video!👑
Thanks bud, just what i need to learn this thing, looking forward for more lessons!
Very nice video! I'm a basic user of Apple Logic Pro and I find it very intuitive. I have installed Live 11 Lite and is curious to see if it can compete with Logic. I like the look of Ableton Live and the minimalist flat style, but it seems like it's mostly made for MIDI and electronic music. Or so I thought =)
I only record real life guitar and bass so this was a very helpful video. I would love to see you do videos on how to do fade ins/outs, create markers, change volume for a track and separate clips, how to export a song to MP3, use third-party plugins such as amp sims etc. My main goal when creating songs, is to just get down to recording with as little fuss as possible. Can the Ableton Live workflow provide that? Thanks!
Cool, i use ableton like you. I am not good at playing guitar, but its fun anyway. 🇩🇰
Thanks for this video!
Hi Chad, can you make a video about a general idea for mixing guitars (clean, crunch, lead, etc) on ableton? That would be very helpful. Thank you in advance!
Thanks for this. Really help me
Hey Chad. This video was great and super helpful. I’m setting up a very small home studio and went with Ableton as it came free with my UA Volt interface. I also purchased the Akai APC Key 25 as a midi keyboard. I’m looking to record classic rock kind of stuff and use midi mostly for bass and drums. If you could do some videos on how to add midi instruments and which ones sound best they would be super helpful. Would like to create a full rick band sound using only my guitars and the rest via midi. Great video and super helpful. Keep them coming please! You got a like and subscribe out of me. Have a great day.
Can you please explain in detail how to have session-view on one screen and arrangement view on another screen. Thx for a great video.
Thanks! In the view menu click on Second Window. This will add the second window so you can have one on each screen.
Great job Chad. question . I have pre recorded files, i guess i can drop these in software and edit. Or possibly change file type. Like from Wav to Mp3. that good stuff, Yes i am going to creating some new tracks , Instrumental most likely
Glad you liked the video! Yes you can drag and drop files into Ableton. I know you used to need .wave files, but I think you can do .wav or .mp3 at this point if I'm not mistaken.
Thanks
Thank for this!!!
Brilliant!!! thank you
Thank you so much for this video! I could never figure how to keep the metronome on when Abelton started to record. I feel like a fool. I really hope you continue the series. I don't think my looper worked the same way as yours did in the video. My start and stops were greyed out. I wonder if this feature is not available in Abelton Lite?
Thanks, simplest tutorial
Great video!
would have been nice to include a section for plug ins, still trying to get my plug ins to work lol
Great video. What guitar are you playing?
@@KarelChytilArt glad you liked the video!
The guitar is a line 6 Variax.
very helpful, thank you
good video, learned alot, thanks :)
Punch in, punch out. Who knew????!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Thanks for sharing. Any videos on using the amp simulator, cabinets, and effects to create great guitar sounds/tone?
Nice videos! What video camera are you using?
Thanks! I'm just using the camera on my Samsung Galaxy s10.
@@ChadHuskey the quality is fantastic. Thanks for letting know 😎
Hi Chad! Great video. Could you please do basic video on background noise removal in AL11?
I have a question if you’ve got the time. say I record 30 minutes of guitar playing through my boss me-80, just flipping through the presets and getting creative, how would I then cut the bits I like be it a riff, lick,chorus etc… and put them in files to use and work on later when I find use for them. I only had Ableton and my Scarlett Solo a week, and although I can play guitar I’m having a hard time with the software as I’m computer illiterate 😂, I’ve already watched this vid about ten times and i still need to keep coming back lol. Thank you 🇬🇧🤘
Glad you're enjoying the video!
There are a couple of ways to achieve what you are wanting to do.
If you want to export the sections to wav files use the loop bracket to mark the beginning and end of the section you want to export.
You can also click and drag to select the section you want to export then right click and choose "loop selection" to mark it.
Then go to file>export and that should do the trick.
Note if you do the loop selection option it will turn on the loop function, which will be highlighted in yellow at the top to the right of the play/stop/record buttons. You will need to click that to turn the looping off.
Another option is that if you want to drag the clips into the session view to have them as clips that can be triggered from there simply follow the same procedure, but after the clip is selected instead of exporting click and drag the audio and while holding down the mouse button hit the tab key to switch over to the session view.
Then you can drop the audio into any of the clip spots and it will be available there to play on its own.
This would be handy if you had a riff that was a verse section and a riff that was a chorus section. You could drag them over as clips into the session view then trigger them on the fly if you wanted to experiment with them that way.
Let me know if this helps.
Cheers