Editing options

Pt. 7 of 10 | 4:02 |

Getting down with GarageBand

Tuesday October 19, 2010

If you're serious about your musical project, you'll want to

break your song into sections

. In this episode, we show you some

editing options in GarageBand

including

how to use GarageBand

create intros, verses, outros

and more, and how to

copy segments of a track

so that you can use them throughout a song.

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Show Notes

- Under the Track menu, click Show Arrange Track. You'll see the Arrangement track appear at the top of your arrangement.

- Click the button beside Arrangement to add a section title. You can shorten, expand or move the bar wherever you want and rename it.

- You can create many of these to create an intro, a verse or any other section.

- Another bonus is that once a section is defined, it can be copied and pasted anywhere in the song, or simply moved.

- Multiple tracks can also be selected with a mouse lasso and moved that way. Holding option will create a copy. Pressing delete will delete them.

- The zoom slider at the bottom-left will magnify the tracks for finer editing work.

- The mute and solo buttons can help you listen to particular tracks. Mute mutes a track while solo will mute all other tracks.

- If you want to change a specific part of the track, you can do so in the edit pane.

- Remember the undo function as it will save you if you make a mistake in your editing.

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