Pete, I have been swimming blindly in the world of beats, loops and digital drummer, clumsily using my fingers to get through. As usual, you have presented something I never knew. You are a gem. There seems to be no end to GB functions. Thank you!!
Wow, this is awesome. I play my own drums on my songs, but using this to assist me in coming up with cool ideas for drum beats is very useful. Thanks again Pete.
man i love you so freaking much, youve helped me make a huge progress and its a huge deal for my career, i hope i can make us even one day, and make my music warm your heart.
You took the words right out of my mouth in the end with the info on Logic Pro. 🥁 Why does the velocity only appear when you have 2 tracks of drums and not a single one/
Howdy! The velocity should be there with just the one drum track? Might have just been the way I demonstrated it in the video. studiolivetoday.com/garageband
Another super useful video Pete! Just wondering, do you tap the drum patterns on the iPad screen, and do you by any chance have a video where you link up a MIDI keyboard to play GB drums?
I just use 3rd party kits, and I program use section separately like the snare and hh on its own track that way I can make each part of the drum any custom pattern. Sometimes I’ll use the beat sequencer to get ideas.
Your videos are super helpful. I’m currently trying to figure out how I can get it so when I finish writing a song, I can export it and my wife can have it playing in her Apple Music library. Is that possible? I’m using an iPad Pro creating in GarageBand.
Hey there. Not sure there’s a way to actually change the performance form a major to minor key sorry? Maybe ask over at the Create Record Release Facebook group at createrecordreleaae.com, or the Discord group here - studiolivetoday.com/discord.
...noob question: why does my interface not look like yours? I have a drum machine and a cutout of a drum kit; and follow mode prompts me to create a new software instrument track. I've got to be missing something.
If I add a guitar instrumental and I don't know how to play other instruments can I somehow add drums or piano or any other instrument to fit my music?
Hey there. I’m not really an expert when it comes to GarageBand Mac sorry. Maybe ask over at the Create Record Release Facebook group at createrecordreleaae.com, or the Discord group here - studiolivetoday.com/discord. Or the GarageBand Users Facebook group. studiolivetoday.com/gbu
I’m having a little problem. It won’t let me add a drummer track after I’ve opened GarageBand and made my first Acoustic Drums track. Am I doing something wrong?
Mac had different options so I’m not 100% sure. Maybe ask over at the Create Record Release Facebook group at createrecordreleaae.com, or the Discord group here - studiolivetoday.com/discord.
Good question? And something I hadn't thought of. But yes, any audio file can be used as the track to "follow", so if you imported a drum track, it would work.
@@PeteJohnsMusic Reason I asked was once I recorded a drummer who's drums sounded really boomy and I thought I could transfer the track and let Kyle play along so I could get a better sound.
I do respect your job and your content….but I tried both GB and LP IPad to follow your instructions and I got sick of it! Man it doesn’t`t follow the other drum……I need to learn this because I don`t have a drummer to play and this thing doesn’t`t help at all! I don`t know what to do with this anymore. I am not complaining about it but I needed it to solve my issues here!
It’s not 100%. The Drummer can only call upon it’s set group of patterns so it will get as close as it can. Maybe ask over at the Create Record Release Facebook group at createrecordreleaae.com, or the Discord group here - studiolivetoday.com/discord. There’s lots of folks who like collaborating over there.
Awesome Pete...I was thinking last night, while listening to your Aussie group, "For King and Country" (I love their big drum sound & effects, production is great)..I thought I would like to figure out how to change up the drums to get them more exciting & bigger... I'm going to play with this!👍Thanks! th-cam.com/video/HdIfQ65r0Uo/w-d-xo.html
🎸 More GarageBand videos - th-cam.com/video/j0M3wnjaKIo/w-d-xo.html
Pete, I have been swimming blindly in the world of beats, loops and digital drummer, clumsily using my fingers to get through. As usual, you have presented something I never knew. You are a gem. There seems to be no end to GB functions. Thank you!!
Thanks for the kind words. It's such a nice simple way to take what's in your head, and make GarageBand do the heavy lifting.
Amen! Amen! Amen!
I spent an hour last night screaming and Kyle
"Just follow my lead"
Lol
Thank thank thank you 🙏
Wow, this is awesome. I play my own drums on my songs, but using this to assist me in coming up with cool ideas for drum beats is very useful. Thanks again Pete.
Very welcome. Glad to help me matey.
Just saved me hours of programming beats this afternoon. Thanks a lot !
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Your channel is brilliant, I’m new to GB and there are so many complex features in it. Thanks for your clear explanations. You’re the best 👏
Very welcome. Thanks so much for the kind words.
I no longer have any reason not to finish my songs lol. The fun just begins for me after seeing your tutorial. Thank you soooo muchhh!
Haha! Awesome stuff. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
This is a gamechanger
Awesome stuff man thanks
Very welcome my friend. Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment.
Man that's a great freaking idea. You're like a GB genius, Pete! What a great way to alter a beat without programming the whole dang thing. Brilliant!
Fun little hack ain’t it? Welcome back my friend. Good to see you in the comments here.
Hi Pete,just been playing around with this tip and it is brilliant 🤩 thank you for showing us all of these great tips in GarageBand 😊
Awesome sauce. I’m glad to hear it helped
Cool! Glad I got frustrated enough with Cubasis 3 to go back to Garageband!
It's just the king when it comes to simple and effective.
definitely THANK YOU for this awesome video!! also, love the hat!!! GO KNIGHTS GO!!!
Haha! Gold. Glad it helped. And yes, loved the Knights’ cup run. What a team!!
Love those quick n easy tips. 👍
It's a cracker isn't it?
Wow. Thank you so much for this Tipp. This is awesome.
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Awesome awesome tip. Thank you. Wish I’d knows this the last few years.
It's a game changer. For all of us who have said "I just want the drums to go boom, bap, boom boom, bap" but don't have the patience to program it. 😆
@@PeteJohnsMusicIndeed bro. Anything to help the process
Great approach to creating beats.
👍😎
really great Pete
👍😎
All these years and I’ve never used this…. Thanks yet again.
Hope you find it useful.
Always with the great ideas, Pete! Good one.
Haha! Cheers my friend.
This is so helpful cause GB is the only way I’ve bin making music or trying to at least thank you so much for this 😊
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You are a legend, Pete! I have been looking ages to find out how to make drum beats!
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@@PeteJohnsMusic I guess you deserve a subscribe 😁
Wow! That is an impressive tip holy
Coming from the king of epic programmed GarageBand drums, I’ll take the component! 🤘
V helpful Pete, big ups
Very welcome.
This is soooo helpful. Thank you
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I always set my TH-cam clips to No fill , so like yours it’s just information ❤ 🥁
Haha! That’s awesome to hear. And exactly what I’m going for.
man i love you so freaking much, youve helped me make a huge progress and its a huge deal for my career, i hope i can make us even one day, and make my music warm your heart.
Thanks so much for the kind words my friend.
This really makes those e-drummers more useful. Good tip.
Cheers. Yeah, it’s like being about to tally to your drummer. They won’t do exactly what you say, but they’ll come close. 😀
Just found out how to do it in Logic Pro for iPad, superb stuff🎉
Yup. Will work the same in Logic. Pretty easy way to get some good sounding drums.
Woww thank you for this❤❤
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Great video!
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Great tip 👌🤘🔥
Thanks my friend. Hope you folks can use it in future tunes.
Excellent!
It's a handy one Ed! Hope you're well mate.
Needed this info
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You took the words right out of my mouth in the end with the info on Logic Pro. 🥁
Why does the velocity only appear when you have 2 tracks of drums and not a single one/
Howdy! The velocity should be there with just the one drum track? Might have just been the way I demonstrated it in the video. studiolivetoday.com/garageband
@@PeteJohnsMusic no I meant when I was in GarageBand after doing something else I noticed this behavior
OMFG a massive AHA moment!!! This is great!!! Thanks for this Pete!
Very welcome my friend. Thanks so much for you support.
Amazing
👍😎
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GREAT, GREAT, GREEEAAAT… THAK YOU PETE…THAT CHANGES THE GAME ✌️🤟😃
Makes it so much easier to get drum sounds that don't sound like everyone else!
Didn’t even know you could do this awesome
👍😎
Another super useful video Pete! Just wondering, do you tap the drum patterns on the iPad screen, and do you by any chance have a video where you link up a MIDI keyboard to play GB drums?
Sure do! And sure do! Check this one out.
th-cam.com/video/RANCX1nnR6g/w-d-xo.html
I just use 3rd party kits, and I program use section separately like the snare and hh on its own track that way I can make each part of the drum any custom pattern. Sometimes I’ll use the beat sequencer to get ideas.
Nice one. Yeah, there’s a heap of ways to get some good drums.
@@PeteJohnsMusic thanks buddy
Great tutorial I needed this
Welcome my friend.
Thank you for this vid!!!! I do this using Anders. But I try making nerd metal and experiment with Doom using Logan.
Sweet! Rock on my friend.
Your videos are super helpful.
I’m currently trying to figure out how I can get it so when I finish writing a song, I can export it and my wife can have it playing in her Apple Music library. Is that possible? I’m using an iPad Pro creating in GarageBand.
Great tip! Thanks!
Very welcome my friend.
Good video
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Broooo….you just changed everything by for me
Awesome! Glad to hear. studiolivetoday.com/garageband
What keys on the keyboard are you hitting to trigger the individual drums and cymbols? Thanks for posting, Sal
Hey there. This one might help. th-cam.com/video/RANCX1nnR6g/w-d-xo.htmlsi=n3jsr1xqXZO2zeME
@@PeteJohnsMusic Thank very much, Peace, Sal 🥁
As a beginner to programming drums this is so helpful thank you! Also question is there a way to do this in the same convenience on a macbook?
I’m not much of a Mac expert I’m afraid but I think there are similar functions in GarageBand Drummer on Mac?
@@PeteJohnsMusic I’ll give it a look thank you!
SMH. More stuff I didn’t know… Thanks again. You’ve made my music way more robust with your tips!
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@@PeteJohnsMusic lifelong fan here.
I’m going to put this to good use. Thank you for the tip…
Very welcome. 🤘😎
I have a kick drum trigger I want to make trigger the kick because I hate fingertapping. unfortunately it looks like you can’t do that
Maybe ask over at the Create Record Release Facebook group at createrecordreleaae.com, or the Discord group here - studiolivetoday.com/discord.
Is there a way I can do this on my mac version? It would make my life a lot easier thanks
I believe so? Very similar features and in fact more options in the Mac version.
@PeteJohnsMusic great thanks... I'm very new to recording music so this helps a lot 😊
@PeteJohnsMusic How do you view the tracks and instrument at the same time like you have here? I can only view one at a time on my iPad.
If you have a 12.9” or larger iPad it will show both. You can also use this tip.
th-cam.com/video/qdgd3xpnUgk/w-d-xo.htmlsi=rac2cz5NRjUMLH2S
Do you know how to change the replayable music in the „Key signature“ option in the top right from to major or to minor without to do it manually?
Hey there. Not sure there’s a way to actually change the performance form a major to minor key sorry? Maybe ask over at the Create Record Release Facebook group at createrecordreleaae.com, or the Discord group here - studiolivetoday.com/discord.
@@PeteJohnsMusic okay. But still thanks for help :)
...noob question: why does my interface not look like yours? I have a drum machine and a cutout of a drum kit; and follow mode prompts me to create a new software instrument track.
I've got to be missing something.
You’re on GarageBand iOS? Mac is different. And older versions are also slightly different.
Cool mate…
👍😎
Sic bru… once I get home I’m going to give it a go! 😂
If I add a guitar instrumental and I don't know how to play other instruments can I somehow add drums or piano or any other instrument to fit my music?
Yep, this sort of method works well for that sort of thing. studiolivetoday.com/garageband
I can't see thsat option on OSX Desktop. How can you access to virtual drum?
Hey there. I’m not really an expert when it comes to GarageBand Mac sorry. Maybe ask over at the Create Record Release Facebook group at createrecordreleaae.com, or the Discord group here - studiolivetoday.com/discord. Or the GarageBand Users Facebook group. studiolivetoday.com/gbu
@@PeteJohnsMusic Thanks I appreciate it
Where the plus button on iPad
Just scroll down to the bottom track. studiolivetoday.com/garageband
Do u use mouse to control the drum beat?
You can. I use the mouse and trackpad from time to time.
I’m having a little problem. It won’t let me add a drummer track after I’ve opened GarageBand and made my first Acoustic Drums track. Am I doing something wrong?
That’s odd? Is it greyed out? Make sure you’re adding a new track and din Talley’s have any Drummer tracks. It only allows a maximum o( 2
@@PeteJohnsMusic I even made sure GarageBand was updated. When I made a Drums track, there wasn’t even an option to switch to tracks view.
Can we do this method for electronic drums ?
Yup sure can. 👍
Can we do this method on GB/Logic Pro Mac ?
Haven’t tried it personally but I imagine it would work the same.
Good tip. Kyle was starting to complain about following the bass all the time. Bass player nearly quit the band. 😂
I guess this is not work for Imac ,not for me anyway.
Mac had different options so I’m not 100% sure. Maybe ask over at the Create Record Release Facebook group at createrecordreleaae.com, or the Discord group here - studiolivetoday.com/discord.
Can you get Kyle to follow real drum tracks from a real drummer other than the one you play on an iPad ?
Good question? And something I hadn't thought of. But yes, any audio file can be used as the track to "follow", so if you imported a drum track, it would work.
@@PeteJohnsMusic Reason I asked was once I recorded a drummer who's drums sounded really boomy and I thought I could transfer the track and let Kyle play along so I could get a better sound.
I do respect your job and your content….but I tried both GB and LP IPad to follow your instructions and I got sick of it! Man it doesn’t`t follow the other drum……I need to learn this because I don`t have a drummer to play and this thing doesn’t`t help at all! I don`t know what to do with this anymore.
I am not complaining about it but I needed it to solve my issues here!
It’s not 100%. The Drummer can only call upon it’s set group of patterns so it will get as close as it can. Maybe ask over at the Create Record Release Facebook group at createrecordreleaae.com, or the Discord group here - studiolivetoday.com/discord. There’s lots of folks who like collaborating over there.
@@PeteJohnsMusic wow okay thanks man! Appreciate it!
Awesome Pete...I was thinking last night, while listening to your Aussie group, "For King and Country" (I love their big drum sound & effects, production is great)..I thought I would like to figure out how to change up the drums to get them more exciting & bigger... I'm going to play with this!👍Thanks!
th-cam.com/video/HdIfQ65r0Uo/w-d-xo.html
Hey Rena. Very welcome my friend. Hope you're doing well.
Such a great tutorial, thank you!
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@@PeteJohnsMusic Thank you, I already did it, you have a great channel!