To adjust the length of the new section, tap the Info button next to the section length. This is handy if you want to create a variation of an existing section and don’t want to redo all your hard work.

Duplicate creates a copy of the current section and adds it to the end of the piece.

Tap a few of the loop names to hear what they sound like. These can be great starting points for your own compositions or can even form complete soundtracks in their own right. The Loop browser contains several hundred Apple Loops in a wide variety of musical genres, from rock and electronic to orchestral and world music. In the control bar, tap the Loop browser button ( 4.6). Now the View button should be visible on the left side of the control bar.Īt first, you see a fairly empty screen, with a timeline across the top and a small piano icon in the upper-left corner. Tap the Record button, play a few notes, and tap Play again to stop recording. On the iPhone, Tracks view isn’t visible in a new song until you record something. The left side of the screen is the beginning of your song, and the instruments stack from top to bottom. Tracks view shows your song as a timeline, much like iMovie displays your movie. Since the Loop browser isn’t available from any of the Instrument screens, switch to Tracks view by tapping the Tracks view button in the control bar across the top of the screen.

Tap Keyboard again to open the Keyboard instrument.

Since you’re going to be working with loops, it doesn’t really matter which instrument you choose. Tap the + icon in the upper-left corner to create a new, empty song and reopen the Touch Instrument browser ( 4.5). GarageBand automatically saves your current creation as “My Song,” but that’s okay.

In the upper-left corner of the Keyboard window, tap My Songs on the iPhone, tap the disclosure triangle to reveal My Songs.

Since you’re building a brand new song, you want to make sure you begin with an empty canvas. When you opened the Keyboard instrument earlier, GarageBand automatically created a new song using that instrument. It also has fewer loops available, but there are still plenty to get you started.

The trick is, the Loop browser is a bit harder to find on the iPad and iPhone version of GarageBand than it is on the Mac.

In addition to playable instruments, GarageBand includes a number of pre-recorded loops that make it easy to build a song from scratch.

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