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7 Tutorial 5: Adding Apple Loops

You can use Apple Loops to add backing and rhythm

tracks to your projects. You can also add Apple Loops to

the loop library and create your own Apple Loops.

GarageBand comes with a large collection of Apple Loops. Apple Loops are

prerecorded musical phrases in a variety of genres, instruments, and moods that you

can add to your projects. Loops are recorded to create seamlessly repeating patterns

that you can extend (or “loop”) to fill any amount of time. What’s great about using

Apple Loops in your GarageBand project is that you can freely mix loops that were

recorded in different keys and at different tempos, but they all play back in the project

key and at the project tempo.

Most popular music today is based on repeating rhythmic patterns (also called

“grooves” or “riffs”), especially in the drums, bass, and other backing parts. To create

music in a groove-based style, an effective way of working is to add loops for the

drums, and then add loops for bass and other rhythm parts. Working this way, you can

define the rhythmic feel of the project and build the basic arrangement by blocking

out sections with different grooves. After the rhythm parts are in place, you can record

voices and instruments to add lead, solo, and harmony parts.

You can quickly set the feel of a project by adding Apple Loops. GarageBand makes it

easy to search for loops that fit the criteria you want, preview them, and add them to

the timeline.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to:

Â Find and preview loops in the loop browser

Â Add loops to the timeline

Â Add loops to the loop library

Â Create your own Apple Loops

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