LoopyLou's Latest Album, Snippets!

Now that you have a better understanding of what a loop is, I will continue explaining my recording process for Snippets. After laying down the drum track using a drum loop, I next found a synth loop that I liked and used that as my second track. The exception being the song Wakka, where I went with a bass line as my second track, since this song has no synth or keyboard tracks on it. If you are not sure how to record and add loops to your song please check my previous post, Let's Talk About Loops. This has a link to a YouTube video showing how to use loops with GarageBand. In my next post, I'll go through each song on the album and talk about the rest of the recorded tracks and what I used to record live keyboards on some of of the songs...Till then....Peace Out..

A loop is a section of actual music or sound that is arranged in a way that makes it easy to repeat over and over. Loops are usually seconds or up to a couple of minutes in length. These pieces of music can be integrated into the song that your recording using music recording software. For example, the drum tracks that I used in my album Snippets are drum loops. I came across this youtube video that does a wonderful job of showing you how to record with loops on GarageBand.  Recording With Loops .

In my last blog post, I went over the first step that needs to be taken to start recording a song in GarageBand. When I recorded Midnight from my latest album, Snippets, I clicked on the Hip-Hop icon. I thought that the drum track that was already there was super-cool so I went with it. The next thing I did was to delete all the tracks with the exception of the drum track. The screen at this time looked something like this. Next post I'll talk about loops....