Editing Regions in Garage Band

"Hey everybody, my name is Matt and I am speaking to you on behalf of Expert Village. Alright, so we've got our main beat for our song down and the only problem is, it's only 2 measures long and our song is obviously going to be a little bit longer than that. So we are going to want to be able to take our region from a song and recycle it so we can use it over and over again. So we are going to want to get a little more familiar with things you can do in track view. For starters, you can click and drag a region around. Obviously just click and drag to do that and I am going to leave it where it is for now. Also, if you take your cursor and put it at the end of a region, you'll notice it changes to a line with an arrow coming out of it. If you click and drag to the left, you can trim up a region and you can also, by dragging it to the right just make it longer so you can come down and add more notes at the end. I am just going to leave it where it is for now. Also if you do the same thing, put your cursor at the end and just go up a little bit. Towards the top of the region you will notice that it changes to a line with a kind of circular area. If you click and drag this out, you will notice that it does the same thing but there are notes in it. What this does it actually loops the first part of your region and makes an instance of it which means that if you come down here you will notice that it is grayed out where you dragged out the loop. You can't actually edit this but if you edit the original loop, it will affect this. So like I said it is actually an instance of your original loop. So this is good if you want the same loop playing exactly over a long period of time but sometimes you are going to want to have a copy of the loop. In this case, all you have to do is go up to edit and copy after you have selected the region that you want to copy and move your cursor to where you want the copy of it and go to edit and paste. You can also use the regular short cuts to do this and this makes a copy of your original loop but you can also come down and edit it."