GarageBand

Anyone here fluent in GarageBand, the Apple music interface? Either I'm too tired or too stupid to figure out some stuff. Help, help!

Intuitive? Well yes, after you learn it.

I have it but have never used it, but if it's as simple and as capable as iMovie, iWeb or some of the others it won't be hard to learn and will do almost everything the more expensive and tougher to learn products can do.

GarageBand is one of the things I miss after my bitter parting of the ways with Apple.

But I'm afraid at this point I'm only useful for a bump, and you were only halfway down the page anyhow...

EDIT: I'm sure somebody knows something, or quite possibly, is bored enough to help increase your googlepowers... If you have a description of your issue, details might be worth posting?

I don't have an answer either, just wanted to post this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL7OsdK1RI4

I used for a bit before upgrading to Logic($200 very well spent, BTW!).

What's the trouble?

I'll give you my 9 y/o Son's contact number. He's been using it for about 4 months and has enough cuts to make an album. Indie-pop, R&B, Latin.. he's got it all down.. The Scrillex is what I'm not used to. I'm amazed of the things he's doing with that program. He's asked for a microphone to auto-tune himself in the tracks.

Okay, a question: If just jamming (not recording) and listening to my guitar via the monitors, how do I add a drum beat? I found the drum beats, but how do I play along with them?

Drag one you like onto the main working area. To loop it, hover the cursor in the top right so you get a little loop icon, then click and drag right for as long as you want the looping to go (I don't know how to just have it loop ad infinitum while you screw around with the guitar, but you could drag it out for ten minutes and not have to start it over very often; certainly less often than an actual drummer...).

Not super-succinct, but good info in this YouTube tutorial.

EDIT: I'm assuming that when you say you've found the drum beats, that you've found what's referred to in the video as the loop browser... Can't think where else you'd find complete beats...

Okay, thanks. I'll give it a whirl this evening.

The ultimate answer, of course, is to go hang out with my friend who's a real, live drummer.

David S. Wallens wrote: Okay, thanks. I'll give it a whirl this evening. The ultimate answer, of course, is to go hang out with my friend who's a real, live drummer.

You'll become a WAY better player by playing with a drummer. Drum machines are helpful, but interacting with other humans musically will make you grow very quickly.

Slight logistical problem: My friend, the drummer, lives about 450 miles from here.

You need closer musician friends.