Garageband Backing Tracks For Beginners

[@UkuleleWales]

👉I really hope this "How to make easy backing tracks using Garageband" tutorial helps. ➡ How To Use Your IPad For Sheet Music - kzbin.info/www/bejne/iWmznJ-fn7end5Y 🚀 If you'd like to join my Patreon Page for exclusive goodies such as PDF downloads and behind the scenes footage - www.patreon.com/UkuleleWales

[@luvkayakn]

I’ve had my iPad for a year and just realized I can use GarageBand to make practice backing tracks. Yeah! Excellent easy to follow instructions. Thank you

[@UkuleleWales]

So glad to be helping, more GarageBand videos coming soon.

[@GeoffHudson]

You're a great teacher! Thanks for the soup to nuts tutorial for us beginners! So many tutorials on youtube either go too fast or down rabbit trails that aren't needed to get started. You struck a great balance of simple, but not too simple.

[@Gill3D]

This is the best instructional for making backing tracks using GarageBand that I've seen. I don't play the ukulele but the piano - this will work for ANY instrument. Thank you for a superb video and please can you explore this subject further.

[@ronwhitehouse23]

I congratulate you what a fantastic easy to follow video. No overly uneccesary jargon.

[@kamipongua6313]

Thank you so much for the tutorial. I can now create my own tracks to suit me. Love the app.

[@sylvainleclerc1229]

I’m a slow learner, but this is perfect for this old Canadian. ❤ thank you for all the help.

[@UkuleleWales]

So very glad to be helping.

[@Krispy1011]

this is a very very good Garage Band tutorial for beginners like me - thx!

[@UkuleleWales]

You're very welcome! I’m hoping to do more GarageBand videos soon. 👍

[@petromic1947]

You are a generous. I learnt so much from you. You made it simple

[@BobWaltenspiel]

Wonderful first intro to GarageBand! Thank you! Very helpful.

[@UkuleleWales]

Glad it was helpful! Hopefully I’ll do some more with GarageBand soon. 👍

[@Chimp_No_1]

Incredibly helpful ! Thank you for sharing !

[@UkuleleWales]

Glad it was helpful! I’m hoping to go more GarageBand videos soon. 👍

[@zekemodel]

Thank you so much. You make it so simple. You are a fantastic teacher.

[@UkuleleWales]

My pleasure, Thank You for your lovely comment. 😊

[@kansasref]

Fantastic beginner's tutorial. Thank you so much, Rachel.

[@UkuleleWales]

My pleasure, so glad you found it helpful.

[@KimBrown900]

Well, I don’t play ukulele, but I find your video very instructional for any solo instrument or vocal. Thank you.

[@UkuleleWales]

You're very welcome! 😊

[@rajendrababukolandala6401]

Your video on Garage Band easy to follow for old people like me. Though I had an I Pad I never used it. I practice on Yamaha keyboard. Could you please post few more videos on Garage Band. Am from Southern part of India. Thanks.

[@DS-247]

Thank You so much mam. After a lot of struggle through many videos, it is your video finally actually helped me in understanding about what all I can do with the Garage Band app.

[@HISnown4ever]

Sweet. I especially liked your bright squiggly arrow that showed where you were clicking next. You made it fun. Hopefully I can do it too. I will be using my iphone, so I guess I'll be playing with it.

[@UkuleleWales]

Great to hear and Thank You for appreciating my squiggly arrows, I was really happy with those! 😊

[@garywoolford3930]

Hi Rachel, I have just taken up the ukulele and found this video very informative and easy to follow. Thank you so much for posting 👍🏼🤗

[@UkuleleWales]

You're so welcome, very glad to have helped. 😊

[@ShelleSinger]

OMG that was brilliant. I messed around with GB maybe 20 years ago and it seemed so much harder. Thank you.

[@UkuleleWales]

Great to be helping Shelle, more GarageBand coming soon.

[@jwllong]

Great tutorial . . . thanks so much. I always wanted to try garage band but it seemed to complicated. Thanks for making it simple.

[@UkuleleWales]

Happy to be of help. I’ll try and do some more GarageBand very soon. 😎

[@jwllong]

@@UkuleleWales That would be great 👍🏻

[@alexmckenzie3500]

Brilliant tutorial Racheal. Even an IT Duffer like mysrlf was able to follow 😊

[@UkuleleWales]

Glad it was helpful! Alex, Thanks. More GarageBand stuff coming soo. 👍

[@joycefleming1422]

Ooh…thanks so much for this Rachel! It’s been on my iPad Pro for all these years & I hadn’t a clue what to do with it other than listen to some of the fantastic sounds available. I’m so looking forward to trying out what you’ve just shown us & being at some point in the future, quite ambitious enough to try & record tracks for a full song which I can then sing & play uke with. Loved it…thanks again! ❤

[@UkuleleWales]

You are so welcome Joyce. Not something I'd really thought about until I realised that lots of folks hadn't really used Garageband.

[@TheKebap31]

Rachel, as always you know how to explain everything very clearly. I've looked at Garageband many times before, but thought it was kind of complicated. But this basic lesson has made me curious again how I can make backing tracks myself. Thanks for your clear explanation!

[@UkuleleWales]

My pleasure and I am so glad you are going to have a go yourself, please feel free to ask if you have any questions.

[@ElveyGooch]

This is brilliant. I just purchased a bass uke so that my Tuesday Morning Blues jam session will have a bass sound. This is very informative. BTW, if anyone uses a macbook, the mac os version of GarageBand (also free) does include ukulele loops.

[@UkuleleWales]

Thanks Elvey, glad you enjoyed. I am hoping to do some more GarageBand videos very soon. 😊

[@MyOgrady]

That was brilliant, i have garage band but never new how to use it , you are such a good teacher, thank you so much looking forward to more ukulele stuff.

[@UkuleleWales]

Thanks, really is my pleasure to be helping. :-)

[@davidhoward8951]

There's a guy on KZbin that shows you how to download how to use GarageBand

[@peterbradley4391]

Fascinating video i really enjoyed that Rachel; never seen "Garageband" before so a real eye opener for me and even my old brain followed your lesson ❤

[@UkuleleWales]

Glad you enjoyed it Peter, it really is a cracking app!

[@tobiasware]

Great video, yet again, Rachel. I'm doing some research on PC and Android alternatives to Garageband, and your information here will pertain to those easily.

[@UkuleleWales]

My pleasure as always Tobias. BandLab is one we use in school sometimes if that helps?

[@Pam-K]

Extremely informative ... thank you so much!

[@UkuleleWales]

My please as always.

[@retardtiger]

Wow! At last, a GarageBand for Dummies site😂. I can’t thank you enough, I’ve been an Apple user for 20 years and always wanted to use GB but recent learning of a ukulele has geed me up and now I’m hooked. Playing a familiar song to a basic drumming track got me going but this site is a godsend. Thankyou❤️❤️❤️

[@UkuleleWales]

Happy to help and as mentioned, more GarageBand videos very soon as it is such a great app once you know the basics. 👍

[@cherann7296]

Great help, Lk fwd to trying garage band

[@UkuleleWales]

Glad to have helped. If you have any further questions, please feel free to ask. 👍

[@joeydrew4847]

Fantastic tutorial thank you

[@UkuleleWales]

You're very welcome Jo 😊

[@Pbaust]

Have thought about this for years, thanks for the helping hand, more please

[@UkuleleWales]

Very glad to have helped and yes, more Garageband stuff soon.

[@ronalddobson3130]

Thank you so much for doing this video, Rachel. Like a lot of others, I have tinkered aimlessly with GB for ages, now I'm getting somewhere. xx

[@UkuleleWales]

My pleasure Ron and please, if you have any questions, feel free.

[@geoffakachuckstrummer]

Rachel, that was great! I bought an iPad last year, primarily to store my songbooks and because it had Garage Band loaded - but I couldn't work out how to use it. The only other videos I found seemed to assume you were at Pete Waterman's level!! Now I can finally start to use it, thanks! Looking forward to more video from you on Garage Band.

[@UkuleleWales]

Glad it was helpful Geoff and please if you ever have any questions, just ask. I will probably do a few more on Garageband because as you say, there seems to be a lack of basic lessons for it.

[@travelswithmymate4486]

Thanks Rachel. I have learnt so much from you since I took up the ukulele 18 months ago. Andrew Australia

[@UkuleleWales]

Thanks you for the lovely comment Andrew, just very glad to be helping.

[@BassJazz]

Thank you for your Yelp it’s very clear And I woul’d try this

[@UkuleleWales]

Glad it was helpful! 😊

[@marcydoyle9279]

Thanks for this.

[@UkuleleWales]

My pleasure!

[@deniseshaw3871]

Ohhh wow glad Iv seen this I hadnt got a clue how to use this app..I would love to know how to play bass Uke along to the drum and guitar track ..Thanks Racheal

[@UkuleleWales]

Glad to be helping Denise. To play along on bass you could just follow the basic root notes to the 12 bar blues eg. C, F & G

[@billshepherdmusicchannel5446]

You saved me so much time!! Thank you

[@UkuleleWales]

So glad to be helping Bill

[@djba]

Hi … thanks for creating this very helpful video.

[@UkuleleWales]

Glad it was helpful! 😊

[@lynnemarriott8755]

Great video thank you as others have said it’s been sitting there for ever 🤗🎶

[@UkuleleWales]

Fab Lynne, any questions though, give me a shout.

[@lynnemarriott8755]

@@UkuleleWales thank you, do you think this would be better than a looper pedal say for drums?

[@lynnemarriott8755]

Can you just record a bass line Garage band Rachel?

[@frigiliana]

Brilliant😍

[@UkuleleWales]

Thanks 😊

[@linelaliberte]

Wow!! With your explanation I record my first GarageBand backing track. I’m so excited about it …. I tried many times but never succeeded. Thank you so much 🌺🌺

[@UkuleleWales]

That is awesome to hear, well done you and if you have any questions, give me a shout! 👍

[@diduknowfacts101]

Awesome leasson.

[@UkuleleWales]

Thanks. More GarageBand band stuff coming soon.

[@mwpoppy7162]

You are super cool…..thank you

[@UkuleleWales]

Thank You 😎

[@Teeum5]

Hello Rachel, thank you very much for this really helpful video. I hope you come with some more videos on backing tracks or how to use GB. I just play the uke a little bit and I am not a great musician so it really is difficult to figure out how to use things like GB in an effective way. Kind regards from Germany.

[@UkuleleWales]

Thanks for the lovely comment and yes, hopefully doing some more GarageBand videos soon. Warm (and wet) wishes to Germany. 😎

[@meganhall8506]

Awesome video!

[@UkuleleWales]

Thanks Meg, now you just need iPad

[@meganhall8506]

@@UkuleleWales I have iPad

[@twokatmew]

Great video, Rachel, thanks so much! I’d installed Garage Band on my iPad, but that’s as far as I got. 😅

[@UkuleleWales]

Glad to be helping and now you have Garageband give me a shout if you have any questions.

[@briandilhomick6488]

Thanks

[@UkuleleWales]

My pleasure.

[@terryb5783]

Thank You.... I've had this program for years, but not knowing what to do with it!!!

[@UkuleleWales]

Very glad to have helped Terry. Thanks 😊

[@thedancingalien7766]

I’ve Been On GarageBand quite some Time This is the Easy bit but Nice reading Music And Implimenting It with Timeing Too ain’t Easy😊😊😊

[@UkuleleWales]

Thanks. 😊 Hoping to do some more GarageBand stuff soon.

[@ChrisPlays724]

Just got a new sub

[@UkuleleWales]

Thanks Chris :-)

[@jennifertunnicliffe3189]

Great video Rachel, thank you! I haven’t used GarageBand since retiring 3 years ago from teaching high school classroom music , and your video reinforced everything I was familiar with using GB. Since taking up the Bass Ukulele, I have been having so much fun playing bass lines with my husband, who plays guitar. We’ve been playing along to various songs on KZbin, and I was wondering if you might do a video on how to create a backing track in GB for a whole song, either with or without the vocals? Eg. we’ve been playing along to 'Something' by George Harrison and I’m thinking about how I could create a backing track in GB with rhythm, basic chords and the vocals played on keyboard. Thanks again for your wonderful resources🙂

[@UkuleleWales]

Hi Jennifer, wonderful that you are getting back into Garageband. It's a great suggection about a full song backing track but I suspect I might bump into some copyright issues but I will certainly try and do some more general ones.

[@jennifertunnicliffe3189]

@@UkuleleWales Yes, of course copyright issues would be a concern. General ones would be great😊 thank you Rachel for the wonderful resources that you make available for all of us.

[@2000konnie]

Thank you, Rachel. This was excellent. Do you even make backing tracks for particular songs? I was thinking say a simple (relatively) pop song with a bridge and a chorus.

[@UkuleleWales]

Thanks Janet. I have made backing tracks for particular songs, recently I did a shortened version of Fly Me To The Moon for a video but I also did some more mass play alongs during covid. They tend not to be exact copies and it's difficult to do a video on them as I'd get issues with copyright. Having piano music helps with these but same principal as this vid, jyst getting the right chords really.

[@menelise]

Garageband is also available for desktop and laptop computers running macOS.

[@UkuleleWales]

Good to know, Thanks

[@Testifyannickm]

❤

[@debralearyan8844]

❤😎💫

[@UkuleleWales]

Thanks Debs

[@stefaniedecoster2772]

Thanks, that's very interesting! Can anyone recommend a similar app for android?

[@UkuleleWales]

Hi, generally Garageband on Apple really is the best but it might be worth looking at BandLab app for Android. A bit more basic but still very good.

[@hachojeitgas]

Is the loop gone after exporting? If yes, do we have an option during export to say loop it for 2 minutes or so?

[@UkuleleWales]

Yes, if you export it won’t loop but depending on your media player, many of those have an option for looping the file - definitely worth looking at the settings. Eg. VLC, Windows media player. Hope that helps.

[@davidhoward8951]

Does it have songs like backing tracks that you can play with it

[@UkuleleWales]

It has loops built in which makes making backing tracks quite easy, it doesn't have complete backing tracks built it in but you can make your own.

[@spritabob]

I don't have any Apple devices, but perhaps it would be worth it to get an iPad and keep my Android phone and Windows pc's. Or maybe there is a similar app that runs on Android tablets and phones.

[@UkuleleWales]

Hi Bob, I started using Apple devices because of work but for mucis, they really are incredible and especially as they all work seamlessly.

[@jeraldday1574]

Are WAVE files too large to Email to myself? Why is MP3 to way to go?

[@UkuleleWales]

Yes, WAV files do tend to be bigger but you can send WAV files if your email provider allows enough space.

[@rickberry899]

Is there a version for Android users?

[@UkuleleWales]

Hi Rick, I haven’t found anything quite as good as GarageBand on Android but worth looking a BandLab. It is more basic but does many of the things GarageBand does. 👍

[@sonjasings5790]

I have an android tablet. Is there an android equivalent of garage band?

[@davegreen3861]

I, too, would really like to know if there’s an Android equivalent.

[@UkuleleWales]

Great question. As far as I am aware there isn’t an app as good as GarageBand but an app we use in school a lot, a bit more basic than GarageBand but very useable is BandLab. Hope that helps. If I do come across a better Android one I’ll make a video. 👍

[@davegreen3861]

@@UkuleleWales many thanks.

[@sonjasings5790]

@@UkuleleWales thanks, I'll take a look 👍😁

[@AmbientGuitarWorks]

No sequencer?

[@UkuleleWales]

Not for this very basic video sorry but I am planning on doing more GarageBand stuff soon. 👍

[@AmbientGuitarWorks]

@@UkuleleWales I'm not even sure that Garageband has the pattern track option. I'm a Logic Pro user and I'm trying to use my iPad Pro as a physical instrument using the synths etc in Garageband. A randomiseable pattern track as is Logic woud be just the thing but I don't see this option.

[@pauldevine5637]

Thanks

[@UkuleleWales]

Thank You Paul, very much appreciated. 😊

[@retardtiger]

Thanks

[@UkuleleWales]

Thank You so much for the super Thanks. More GarageBand videos coming soon.