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Record a real instrument track

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Record a real instrument track

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- 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 make my first real instrument recording. The first thing I'm going to 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. I'll open up the loop browser and search for a click track. There's the one we created. And I'll drag it to measure one here and create its own track. And again, I just like to make that the top track. I place my cursor in the upper right hand corner and drag that out for several measures. So we can hear that throughout the recording. Also, the song we're going to be recording is an E minor, so I want to make sure to select the proper key. Just in case I want to add other loops later and if I do I want them to be in the right…

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