Logic Pro 8: Adding Instruments to Drum Beat

Video Transcript

"Now I'm going to add more instruments to this beat. And the first thing I do, usually when I'm doing beats is you can just take another sound of any sort. And sometimes it works to double a part that you already have in the song. Say this bass line, I'm going to copy, option, click, paste it to another track where I've put in a different instrument. Therefore, when they combine, they're going to give me a different sound of that instrument. And more of a full, fullness. So then you just take, open up other synths. This is another synth. Up in the top left there's always going to be the different banks of all your different instruments. And then usually I use a trigger because it's more of a musical way to start recording. And you can see that these three parts are all the same exact part. Then I take another one, another instrument. This here being the clave and you can start adding more in. You just have as many tracks as you need. You can create more tracks. You can, you know, this is basically a basic loop, where every track is a two bar loop, to a four bar loop, looped on. And you can see that just by adding the same thing twice and then something different, you get more of a full sound than just with the bass and the drums on the beat. So that's how you add another instrument on Logic."