GarageBand Drummer - Complete Beginner's Guide

If you want to know how to use GarageBand drummer, this video is for you! In this video you'll learn exactly how to setup GarageBand drummer like a pro.

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[Theactivepsychos]

Also, trimming the drum into small parts and then adjusting each one gives them a more realistic feel. So if you have an 8 bar section that’s essentially the same beat chop it into 8 parts and then put the velocity or the complexity up slightly. Only small changes make a massive difference!

[garudasomanna]

Dear Colin. Your zeal and passion for this subject is awesome. You are truly fired up for this work. May God's blessings abide permanently upon you and yours.

[Theactivepsychos]

You can also double up and turn on the hi-hat or toms or cymbals.

[avtordonny]

I’m just getting into home recording and using GB. This is hugely helpful! Thank you!

[fret_playa]

Is there a drummer plugin like this for Cubase? I love that you can drag the dot around to change the dynamics. It's great for getting an idea going without much fuss.

[elizabethbowersox]

Can’t wait to dive in! I’m a singer songwriter looking to elevate the demos I send to producers, and maybe even produce a song well enough on my own to send off for final mixing and mastering. Appreciate your content. Thank you for making our lives easier! 🎉

[MrTimdriver]

What an incredible tool is drummer, absolutely amazing.

[savinglivesofourown]

Colin - what a wonderful series. You start your theme song off with a drum roll. Thats exactly what I'm trying to learn how to do - isolate a drum roll to paste in before my Logan (my fave) retro rock pattern.

[johnlegrande]

I’m also a Kyle fan!
Also - I like to create a smaller region (.5 - 1 measure) within the larger region and crank up the fill knob for a cool 1 bar fill.

[apep.]

I recently began using samples to make my own instruments through the Sampler" function and it feels like any project I do this on becomes ruined.
When opening project which uses samples, a message box will say
"An Audio Unit plug-in reported a problem which might cause the system to become unstable. Please quit and restart GarageBand."
The two options given are "Quit" and "Recover". If I click "quit" GarageBand will quit and show me the same message box again when I reopen it, repeat ad infinitum. If I click "recover" the app will look fine but any tracks which have sampled audio in them are silent while they should be playing. Conversely, other tracks with garageband's built in instruments will play even when muted. The volume display for these muted tracks will display nothing, as though they are not playing, and yet the track will play.
This will go on working in this way for a while until suddenly a REALLY loud, startling "boop" noise is made. It doesn't matter what setting my Macbook's speakers are on, the noise will be VERY loud and painful if I'm wearing headphones.
What is going on here? I am completely lost. Sampling new instruments using small bits of audio seems like something any piece of audio software should be capable of and yet GarageBand seems to not be able to cope. Is there something I'm missing or doing wrong? Do I need to just quit on garageband and get a better bit of software? If so are there any recommendations?

[johnvender]

As powerful as they are I rarely use the drum parts GarageBand generates, I generally roll my own with each part of the kit on its own track. Great thing about that is that I can process each part of the kit individually and generally at the end choose the kit for each drums track that sits best in the mix. Works for me I guess mostly because my philosophy when it comes to drums is very much KISS. One problem I've found with the track for each part of the kit is in the rare situation of changing the key of the project with parts already done having to go through all the drum kit parts and moving them back to the notes correct for that part of the kit. Would be great to have a "drum kit part" checkbox on each track that stops key change moving the notes for the checked tracks.

[batphink]

Thanks much Colin I've been a drummer for years and am an ex professional playing many genres. This really helps as often the drum fills the drummer originates are not what I had in mind Thanks pal!

[TimmoMcGinn]

Cheers Colin...You may well cover these points but I've found that if you start with a scratch track or say a bass track you can elect to follow that track and the drummer will tie in well with what you have already composed. The other one to help with sections and frill defaults is to put together an arrangement track identifying the parts of the song and when you select a drummer track it has a good attempt at fitting in with your designated arrangement and follows those sections
(probably not as well as tailored sections but gets you started well)

[scottpileggi]

What a great video, thank you! Have never used garageband drummer and feel like I'm a pro on the subject now. Excited to start using it more!

[Moykel]

Great refresher / intro session, thank you Colin. You always bring something new! Woof Chunk.

[danielalbertogonzalezsoria]

Thanks Collin I want to produce my own music but I’ve got no drummer.

Hopefully, this will help me to achieve that goal.

[mineralt]

Thanks for this. I have been a pro drummer for years and this helps me write much faster ❤

[robertmellang]

How do you match a drum track on a song?
How does the follow feature work?
If you record a song on one track, can you make a new drum track to match the tempo?
Can you use garage band to calculate a tempo of an existing song?

[kevchilton]

Once again Colin, fantastic content 👌👍🙏

[merv]

Thanks for the tutorial I’m still trying to get to grips with the drums on garage band. I use backing tracks when I’m performing and I’m trying to enhance the drums on certain tracks. But I find I can’t alter the beat of the track on the drum tracks, id like to delete or add the beat in certain places, but I find this is quite difficult. Any suggestions?