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My Beginning Tracks

Whenever I've recorded an album whether now or in the past I always began with laying down the drum tracks. In the past it would take me days to do this since I was recording live drums. However, since going all digital, I can usually lay down a drum track and tweak it in a matter of minutes. All the songs on Snippets started out with a drum loop. Life has been so much easier since I started using GarageBand to do all my recordings. People may argue that you lose a bit of rawness when you compare digital to analog recordings but even if this is true, the time that you save by using digital means more than compensates for what you lose when recording through analog methods.
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