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Record a Real Instrument track

Record a Real Instrument track - GarageBand Tutorial

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Record a Real Instrument track

- [Instructor] Okay, so now that I have my guitar audio track created, and I've set it up to accept input from my audio input device, I'm ready to start making my first real instrument recording. The first thing I'm gonna do is place that Click Track we created in the previous chapter into my project. Again, the Click Track is like an adjustable metronome track that's easier to hear than GarageBand's built in metronome. So I'll just do a quick search for the Click Track that we created, there it is, (metronome clicking) and I'll just drag it into my project. Starting at bar one, and I'm gonna loop that out for a little bit here, and also move that up to the top of the tracks here. I can also get rid of this Classic Electric Piano Track and also this song I'm gonna be recording is in E Minor so I'm gonna change the project key, just in case I wanna add loops later and if I do I want them to be in the right key. The tempo will be 120 beats per minute, that's fine. Alright so now we've…

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