How to Arrange Songs: GarageBand Tutorial

Video Transcript

"I'm here to talk to you about arraging songs in garageband. Now a wonderful feature of garageband is you can designate certain regions in your songs as different parts. Once you done that you can move the entire part around very easily with a click of a button. I'm going to show you how to do it, so with my song here we have several different parts it starts off with an intro that moves on to a second part and this part over here is from where the main melody kicks in. So what I'm going to do is designate each different part in order to that I go into track right over here I select whole arrange track, now what I can do is set the track volume. So I click this little button here it says create a new arrange region, I click that, first thing I'm going to do is title it, I'm going to call it intro then what I do is change the size of it. For me it's just the intro is just the this little part right here now I'm going to do the same thing for the other parts, so what I've done is created three different regions. I have the intro over here, I have part one and I have part two, now what I'm going to do is move them around so all I have to do is click up here. Let's say I want to start this song with part two I click on part two, and I drag it all the way to the beginning, now the song starts with part two (playing) goes into the intro and then to part one. And I can continue to break down the rest of the song however I like into regions and then move them around later on as I decide how exactly I want to arrange the song. The arrange tool makes it possible to arrange songs very easily and if your in the process of writing a song you can mark up different parts and move them around and do a lot of experimentation very quickly."