Add Chords In Garageband
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GarageBand User Guide for iPhone
*How To Add Chords In Garageband
*How To Add Chords In Garageband Mac
*How Do You Add Chords In Garageband
*How To Add Chords In Garageband Mac
Many songs are organised in sections such as intro, verse and chorus. Each section is usually eight bars long, or a multiple of eight. When you create a GarageBand song, it contains one repeating section. You can add more sections, set the length of a section, and play back a single section or all sections.
After that, open GarageBand and go to Preferences and click on the Audio/Midi tab. Select your input device from the pull-down list. After that go into your project and add a new track. Select Real Instrument from the selection screen if you are miking your amp, or using a keyboard. Select Electric Guitar if you want to use GarageBand’s built.Open the song section controls
*Add a custom chord Tap the Settings button in the control bar, then tap Edit Chords. On iPhone SE, iPhone 8, iPhone 7, or iPhone 6s, tap the Settings button in the control bar, tap Song Settings, then tap Edit Chords. Tap the chord strip you want to use for the custom chord.
*Loops are pre-made sections of music that you can add to your project. To add a loop, do the following: Click the loop-shaped icon in the upper-right corner of the window. Preview a loop by clicking it. Add the loop to GarageBand by dragging it into the main window. Extend the loop (if necessary) by clicking and dragging its upper-right corner.
*See diagrams of add chords.: C add D add E add F add G add A add B add. Cm add Dm add Em add Fm add Gm add Am add Bm add. C add11 D add11 E add11 F add11 G add11 A add11 B add11. To avoid too high information density, only naturals are listed. You can easily reach, for example C#add or Dbadd, by first click on ’C add’ and when click on to the.
*You can use the Chord Grid inside the Part Box, which is inside the Score Editor, to input chords as guitar chords.
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Tap the Song Section button on the right edge of the ruler.Add a song section
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Open the song section controls, then tap Add.
The new, empty section is added after the last section.
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Tap Done to close the song section controls.Add a copy of a section
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Open the song section controls, choose the section you want to copy, then tap Duplicate.
The copy is added after the last section.
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Tap Done to close the song section controls.Set a section to automatically fit the length of your recording
When you record a Touch Instrument, the section length determines how long the recording is. However, you can set the section to automatically fit the length of your recording. This is useful when you record something of an undetermined length (such as an improvised performance or spoken word) or when you import audio or MIDI files into your song.
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Open the song section controls.
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Tap the Inspector button next to the section name. If you have more than one section, tap the Inspector button next to the last section.
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Tap the Automatic switch to turn it on.
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Tap Done to close the song section controls.Change the length of a section
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Open the song section controls.
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Tap the Inspector button next to the section name.
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If the section is set to Automatic, tap the Automatic switch to turn it off.
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Tap the up or down arrow next to Manual to lengthen or shorten the section incrementally by bars. You can swipe vertically to change it in larger increments.
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Tap Done to close the song section controls.
When you shorten a section, any regions extending past the end of the section are shortened. When you lengthen a section, all regions that extend from the beginning to the end of the section now loop to the new end of the section. A section can be any number of bars, and the overall song can be up to 2000 bars long.Play a different section
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Open the song section controls, then choose the section you want to play. To play all sections in the song, choose All Sections.
Tracks view changes to show the section, and the ruler shows the bar numbers for the section.
In Tracks view, you can also switch between adjacent song sections by swiping left or right until the next section is visible.
If you set different quantisation or transposition values for a track in different sections, the quantisation or transposition value for that track appears as Multiple when you choose All Sections.
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Tap Done to close the song section controls.
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To play the current section or sections, tap the Play button in the control bar.Change the order of sections
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Open the song section controls, then tap Edit.
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Drag a section up or down in the list by the handle on its right edge.
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When you finish, tap Done.
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Tap Done to close the song section controls.Extend a region across multiple sections
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Open the song section controls, then tap All Sections.
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Tap Done to close the song section controls.
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Move, resize or loop the region to extend across multiple sections. You can also record a new region across multiple sections.Delete a section
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Open the song section controls, then tap Edit.
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Tap the red circle to the left of the section you want to delete.
If the song has only one section, the section cannot be deleted.
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Tap Done to close the song section controls.Set the first section of new songs to match the length of your recording
By default, the first section of a new song is 8 bars long. You can set the length of the first section of new songs to Automatic, in which case it matches the length of your recording.
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On the Home screen, tap Settings.
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In the Settings app, scroll down, then tap GarageBand.
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Tap the Automatic Recording Length switch.
Aesthetic music is a style of music, similar to lo-fi, that’s commonly associated with relaxed instrumentals. It’s really soft, easy-listening music that you can listen to while performing tasks that don’t require 100% of your concentration, like working out, cleaning, or studying for an upcoming exam.
Personally, I don’t listen to aesthetic or lo-fi music when I’m doing chores, however, I certainly enjoy making it and I’ll show you how to do it too. If you want to make your own, understand that making aesthetic music isn’t all that hard, even if you’re using free software like Garageband or a premium DAW like Pro Tools from Plugin Fox.
To make an aesthetic song in GarageBand, record a melody using a soundscape or jazz instrument like piano, electric clean guitar, or an upright bass. Add the rhythm section using a lo-fi drum kit, then fill out the song with other ambient sounds. Make sure the song has a slow BPM (70-100) too.
In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create an aesthetic track in Garageband using what I believe is the simplest method. Simply put, it all comes down to a slow BPM, ambient sounds, soundscape instruments, vintage sound effects, and a lo-fi drum kit. I’ll explore these concepts in detail first and then we’ll explore how to put them into practice (the video below features the finished project as well so make sure to check that out). What Are the Common Elements of Aesthetic Music? 1) A Lo-Fi Drum-Kit
In my particular case, when I wanted to start making an aesthetic style beat, the first thing I did was I went and got my hands on a Lo-Fi kit. While Aesthetic music and Lo-Fi aren’t necessarily the same thing, they do have similar elements, and one of them is the style of kit they use.
I would say that both lo-fi and aesthetic use the same type of kit and rhythmic patterns. For aesthetic music, I would recommend getting your hands on the Cymatics Lo-Fi kit which comes with melodic loops, drum kits, one-shot loops, melodic samples, and even pre-programmed drum loops.
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If you really wanted to make it easy on yourself, you could use one of their melodies with a stock drum loop and you would already have a song created, however, this is too easy, and you won’t really learn how to make your own music if you choose to do it this way.
I’ve included the link to the free sample pack that I downloaded from Cymatics at the top. Cymatics, by the way, is a great website with a lot of great, free, sounds that are incredibly useful for making beats (I have a guide on this, by the way) and other styles of music. Make sure you know how to sample, and if you don’t already, don’t fret, because I have a step-by-step guide on how to do it + a short video down below. 2) Natural Minor, Lydian, Ionian and Dorian Harmonies and Melodies
Other features of aesthetic music are natural minor, dorian, ionian, and lydian harmonies and melodies which I’ve explored before in my dedicated guide. People who don’t know music theory will call them sad, chill, happy, and dreamy, respectively.
From what my ear can hear, I would say there are more Minor 7th and Major 7th chords in Aesthetic music, which naturally tend to produce a Dorian or Lydian Vibe (although it depends). I included a brief synopsis of what the modes sound like below.
Important to Note:
Of course, there are other types of chords, modes, and melodies in aesthetic music, including the Ionian sound (regular major chords), but the point is that aesthetic music tends to sound chilled out, mellow, sad, or somewhat spacey. Dorian and Lydian are the best for this.
Minor 7th chords are known for sounding Dorian, compared to Major 7th chords which sound Lydian. If Ionian/Major is too happy, but Aeolian/Minor is too sad, then the Dorian mode is a compromise between the two; it has more of a “chilled-out” sound that’s the brightest among all of the minor sounds.
Dorian, which is characterized as a natural minor scale with a raised 6th degree, has become a lot more popular in the modern hip-hop era, probably due to the influence of the Toronto rapper, Drake. Lydian, on the other hand, tends to sound dream-like, hopeful, ascendant, or spacey, as a consequence of the raised 4th degree in the scale. The raised fourth-degree of the mode can also sound slightly dissonant.
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Dorian = 2nd mode of the Major Scale – Raised 6th degree of Minor Scale Lydian = 4th mode of the Major Scale – Raised 4th degree of Major Scale
In case you don’t know, a Minor 7th chord is just a regular Minor chord with the seventh note added to it, whereas a Major 7th chord is just a major chord with the 7th degree added to it. For example, think of a C Minor Chord. C Minor:
C Eb G
To make the above chord a C Minor 7th chord, you just have to add the 7th note from the root which would be the following: C Minor 7th:
C, Eb, G, Bb
Additionally, it’s important to note that the 7th chord is not only counted up from the beginning of the chord as the root but also the scale, as well. For instance, the notes of the C Minor scale are the following:
C, D, Eb, G, Ab, Bb, C
Notice the way that the B is flat in the key of C Minor. So if you wanted to make the C Minor 7th chord, you would add the flat-seventh to the chord, Bb, making it a C Minor 7th chord.
The same rule applies to the C Major 7th chord. In the key of C major, there are no accidentals (no sharps or flats), so you just add the 7th note of the scale again but there are no sharps or flats on any of the notes of the chord. C Major Chord:
C, E, G
To make this the C Major 7th chord, just add the B to make: C Major 7th:
C, E, G, B
The major and minor 7th chords are commonly employed not only in aesthetic music but also in Lo-Fi, so pay attention. Coincidentally, Drake comes to mind when I think of a popular artist whose producers commonly make beats with minor 7th chords. For instance, the song, “With You,” uses Dorian vibes, and many of his other songs do as well.
Aesthetic and lo-fi also use other tonalities, but I’m just pointing out that if you want that chilled out or dream-like sound, minor and minor 7th chords are a great place to start. It’s worth mentioning that other chords like Major and Minor 9th chords are great for this as well, but I digress. Here’s a demonstration of the dorian mode: 3) Aesthetic Songs Commonly Use Jazz and Soundscape Instruments
When it comes to the instruments, you can get really creative and use all kinds of sounds and effects. However, I find it’s best to use instruments that are commonly associated with jazz and other similar styles of music. Some of the most ubiquitous sounds in aesthetic music are the following: Soft or Regular Piano
I would go ahead and argue that the soft piano, or just a regular piano, is the defining instrument of Aesthetic music. There always seems to be a piano of some kind in Aesthetic tracks, at least in some form or another, whether it’s a regular grand piano, a soft piano, or a ragtime piano. Spectrasonics’ Keyscape (from Plugin Fox) is the best piano library if you’re serious about getting a good piano.
But if you’re looking for something great that doesn’t cost any money, I couldn’t recommend the Soft Piano from Spitfire Audio Labs enough. It’s a fantastic piano instrument, and I’ve explained before that it’s probably the best one I’ve ever used. More importantly, it’s free, and there are some other great features about Spitfire Audio Labs that you definitely don’t want to miss out on. Electric Clean Guitar (with no distortion)
For the electric guitar – which is quite simple to connect to Garageband using my guide – I would suggest using a clean preset such as the Cool Jazz Combo, or something very similar. Other great ones to use are Dyna-Trem, Dublin Delay, or Clean Studio Stack. Garageband’s Amp Designer has a lot of presets and featuresthat are definitely worth exploring if you plan on using an electric guitar to make an aesthetic track.
One of the most important tips for recording electric guitar into a DAW is to use a metronome or a click-track of some kind. This will ensure your recording is actually on time, and you’ll be in a much better position to create synchronized music when the time comes to add other instruments and sounds.
Grab an iRig HD 2 off of Amazon for a cheap price if you want to get started with recording guitar sounds in your beats. Some guitars are better than others for recording in a DAW, and for that, I would suggest the PRS SE Custom 24 from ZZounds which is very versatile. It can be used for pretty much everything. Soundscape Instruments
Garageband, thankfully, has a ton of great soundscape instruments, such as String Movements, Event Horizon, Air Bells, Delicate Bells, Antarctic Sun, and Splatter Tables. However, in the case that you’re already sick of what Garageband has to offer, I would highly suggest grabbing Native Instruments’ Komplete 13 from ZZounds if you want the best instruments available (I’ve written about the free version, Komplete Start, in my other article).
Bells
Other great things to use are bells and other instruments that have an ambient vibe. Bells are a great way to add spaciousness, airiness, or even a sweet, light-hearted sound that is a characteristic of ambient music. For example, I used the Hybrid Keys from Native Instruments for this particular tutorial and song.
Some of the bells you can use in Garageband include the Delicate Bells, Splatter Tables, and more, just in case you don’t want to add any more plug-ins.
Xylophones and Marimbas
Get the Xylophone from my other article.
The same thing could be said about xylophones and marimbas. These two instruments tend to produce a very happy, sweet, or chilled out sound, and they’re fantastic to use for Aesthetic music. GarageBand comes with a great marimba by default, however, if you want to get your hands on a Xylophone, I have an article on where to get it (linked above).
Upright Bass
The Upright Bass is another instrument that is commonly associated with jazz music. If you want a jazzy instrument, then look no further than the Upright Bass. This is a great way to add a nice, plucking, low-end with a chilled out and ambient vibe.4) Aesthetic Songs Commonly Have A Slow BPM (70-100)
I would argue that the last thing to pay attention to when making Aesthetic Music is the slow BPM. As a general rule, aesthetic music is always incredibly slow. Usually between 70-100 BPM, sometimes even slower. If the song was fast, it would sound completely different, like some kind of ambient house music rather than Aesthetic or Lo-Fi.
This is really quite self-explanatory. Either set the BPM around 70-100 in the top center console of Garageband’s interface or just pay attention to how you’ve spaced out the drum kit notes when creating your beat. Without further ado, let’s explore how to use the aforementioned principles and instruments to make aesthetic music. Making Aesthetic Music in Garageband (Step-By-Step Guide)1) Making the Drum Beat
As I suggested already above, go ahead and download the Cymatics Lo-Fi Toolkit package and read my article on sampling if you don’t know how to load these sounds into your DAW. Once you’ve downloaded your kits and sounds, you can either do what I said and use the Drum Loops and melodies it comes with, or you can make something up on your own, which I assume is what you want to do if you’re reading this article.
Load up the instrument sounds in Garageband, including the Kick, Snare, Open and Closed Hi-Hats, and potentially a Shaker or a Ride. Hi-Hats (Open and Closed)
The first thing I did when I made my beat is that I made the hi-hat notes almost immediately simply because they’re the easiest to do and it’s a great way to get started.
You’ll notice how far apart the notes are spaced out from each other. This is what’s going to determine how slow they are, so pay attention to this. I find that when using the standard BPM of 120, you want your hi-hats to be on every other grid-line to sound slow. If you set the BPM to around 70, the notes should probably be on every grid-line.
For the closed hi-hats, I made them a little faster and I also used a stylized hi-hat roll which descends down the piano roll which sets up the Snare to strike right after. Creating hi-hat and snare rolls is pretty easy and I have other tricks that you can use to add more flavor and style to your rhythm section. Kick
As you’ve probably gathered by now, when making Aesthetic or Lo-Fi music, you want the drums to hit fairly slowly which means there won’t be many notes. For example, when I made my Kick in this particular track, you can see that there are really only around 4 kick hits per 8 bars.
That’s not a lot. And this obviously isn’t a rule, but the point is that there aren’t a lot of kicks just because if there were, it would have the effect of making it a bit faster and aggressive sounding. You’ll also notice in the image below that I extended the kick notes so they’re very long. I did that just so they boom more in conjunction with the 808s. Snare
The same thing can be said about the snare as well, in fact, the snare hits even less than any of the other instruments in the song, about every third beat.
And that’s pretty much it for the drumbeat. One thing about aesthetic mus
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GarageBand User Guide for iPhone
*How To Add Chords In Garageband
*How To Add Chords In Garageband Mac
*How Do You Add Chords In Garageband
*How To Add Chords In Garageband Mac
Many songs are organised in sections such as intro, verse and chorus. Each section is usually eight bars long, or a multiple of eight. When you create a GarageBand song, it contains one repeating section. You can add more sections, set the length of a section, and play back a single section or all sections.
After that, open GarageBand and go to Preferences and click on the Audio/Midi tab. Select your input device from the pull-down list. After that go into your project and add a new track. Select Real Instrument from the selection screen if you are miking your amp, or using a keyboard. Select Electric Guitar if you want to use GarageBand’s built.Open the song section controls
*Add a custom chord Tap the Settings button in the control bar, then tap Edit Chords. On iPhone SE, iPhone 8, iPhone 7, or iPhone 6s, tap the Settings button in the control bar, tap Song Settings, then tap Edit Chords. Tap the chord strip you want to use for the custom chord.
*Loops are pre-made sections of music that you can add to your project. To add a loop, do the following: Click the loop-shaped icon in the upper-right corner of the window. Preview a loop by clicking it. Add the loop to GarageBand by dragging it into the main window. Extend the loop (if necessary) by clicking and dragging its upper-right corner.
*See diagrams of add chords.: C add D add E add F add G add A add B add. Cm add Dm add Em add Fm add Gm add Am add Bm add. C add11 D add11 E add11 F add11 G add11 A add11 B add11. To avoid too high information density, only naturals are listed. You can easily reach, for example C#add or Dbadd, by first click on ’C add’ and when click on to the.
*You can use the Chord Grid inside the Part Box, which is inside the Score Editor, to input chords as guitar chords.
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Tap the Song Section button on the right edge of the ruler.Add a song section
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Open the song section controls, then tap Add.
The new, empty section is added after the last section.
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Tap Done to close the song section controls.Add a copy of a section
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Open the song section controls, choose the section you want to copy, then tap Duplicate.
The copy is added after the last section.
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Tap Done to close the song section controls.Set a section to automatically fit the length of your recording
When you record a Touch Instrument, the section length determines how long the recording is. However, you can set the section to automatically fit the length of your recording. This is useful when you record something of an undetermined length (such as an improvised performance or spoken word) or when you import audio or MIDI files into your song.
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Open the song section controls.
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Tap the Inspector button next to the section name. If you have more than one section, tap the Inspector button next to the last section.
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Tap the Automatic switch to turn it on.
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Tap Done to close the song section controls.Change the length of a section
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Open the song section controls.
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Tap the Inspector button next to the section name.
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If the section is set to Automatic, tap the Automatic switch to turn it off.
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Tap the up or down arrow next to Manual to lengthen or shorten the section incrementally by bars. You can swipe vertically to change it in larger increments.
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Tap Done to close the song section controls.
When you shorten a section, any regions extending past the end of the section are shortened. When you lengthen a section, all regions that extend from the beginning to the end of the section now loop to the new end of the section. A section can be any number of bars, and the overall song can be up to 2000 bars long.Play a different section
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Open the song section controls, then choose the section you want to play. To play all sections in the song, choose All Sections.
Tracks view changes to show the section, and the ruler shows the bar numbers for the section.
In Tracks view, you can also switch between adjacent song sections by swiping left or right until the next section is visible.
If you set different quantisation or transposition values for a track in different sections, the quantisation or transposition value for that track appears as Multiple when you choose All Sections.
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Tap Done to close the song section controls.
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To play the current section or sections, tap the Play button in the control bar.Change the order of sections
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Open the song section controls, then tap Edit.
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Drag a section up or down in the list by the handle on its right edge.
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When you finish, tap Done.
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Tap Done to close the song section controls.Extend a region across multiple sections
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Open the song section controls, then tap All Sections.
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Tap Done to close the song section controls.
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Move, resize or loop the region to extend across multiple sections. You can also record a new region across multiple sections.Delete a section
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Open the song section controls, then tap Edit.
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Tap the red circle to the left of the section you want to delete.
If the song has only one section, the section cannot be deleted.
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Tap Done to close the song section controls.Set the first section of new songs to match the length of your recording
By default, the first section of a new song is 8 bars long. You can set the length of the first section of new songs to Automatic, in which case it matches the length of your recording.
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On the Home screen, tap Settings.
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In the Settings app, scroll down, then tap GarageBand.
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Tap the Automatic Recording Length switch.
Aesthetic music is a style of music, similar to lo-fi, that’s commonly associated with relaxed instrumentals. It’s really soft, easy-listening music that you can listen to while performing tasks that don’t require 100% of your concentration, like working out, cleaning, or studying for an upcoming exam.
Personally, I don’t listen to aesthetic or lo-fi music when I’m doing chores, however, I certainly enjoy making it and I’ll show you how to do it too. If you want to make your own, understand that making aesthetic music isn’t all that hard, even if you’re using free software like Garageband or a premium DAW like Pro Tools from Plugin Fox.
To make an aesthetic song in GarageBand, record a melody using a soundscape or jazz instrument like piano, electric clean guitar, or an upright bass. Add the rhythm section using a lo-fi drum kit, then fill out the song with other ambient sounds. Make sure the song has a slow BPM (70-100) too.
In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create an aesthetic track in Garageband using what I believe is the simplest method. Simply put, it all comes down to a slow BPM, ambient sounds, soundscape instruments, vintage sound effects, and a lo-fi drum kit. I’ll explore these concepts in detail first and then we’ll explore how to put them into practice (the video below features the finished project as well so make sure to check that out). What Are the Common Elements of Aesthetic Music? 1) A Lo-Fi Drum-Kit
In my particular case, when I wanted to start making an aesthetic style beat, the first thing I did was I went and got my hands on a Lo-Fi kit. While Aesthetic music and Lo-Fi aren’t necessarily the same thing, they do have similar elements, and one of them is the style of kit they use.
I would say that both lo-fi and aesthetic use the same type of kit and rhythmic patterns. For aesthetic music, I would recommend getting your hands on the Cymatics Lo-Fi kit which comes with melodic loops, drum kits, one-shot loops, melodic samples, and even pre-programmed drum loops.
Tip:
If you really wanted to make it easy on yourself, you could use one of their melodies with a stock drum loop and you would already have a song created, however, this is too easy, and you won’t really learn how to make your own music if you choose to do it this way.
I’ve included the link to the free sample pack that I downloaded from Cymatics at the top. Cymatics, by the way, is a great website with a lot of great, free, sounds that are incredibly useful for making beats (I have a guide on this, by the way) and other styles of music. Make sure you know how to sample, and if you don’t already, don’t fret, because I have a step-by-step guide on how to do it + a short video down below. 2) Natural Minor, Lydian, Ionian and Dorian Harmonies and Melodies
Other features of aesthetic music are natural minor, dorian, ionian, and lydian harmonies and melodies which I’ve explored before in my dedicated guide. People who don’t know music theory will call them sad, chill, happy, and dreamy, respectively.
From what my ear can hear, I would say there are more Minor 7th and Major 7th chords in Aesthetic music, which naturally tend to produce a Dorian or Lydian Vibe (although it depends). I included a brief synopsis of what the modes sound like below.
Important to Note:
Of course, there are other types of chords, modes, and melodies in aesthetic music, including the Ionian sound (regular major chords), but the point is that aesthetic music tends to sound chilled out, mellow, sad, or somewhat spacey. Dorian and Lydian are the best for this.
Minor 7th chords are known for sounding Dorian, compared to Major 7th chords which sound Lydian. If Ionian/Major is too happy, but Aeolian/Minor is too sad, then the Dorian mode is a compromise between the two; it has more of a “chilled-out” sound that’s the brightest among all of the minor sounds.
Dorian, which is characterized as a natural minor scale with a raised 6th degree, has become a lot more popular in the modern hip-hop era, probably due to the influence of the Toronto rapper, Drake. Lydian, on the other hand, tends to sound dream-like, hopeful, ascendant, or spacey, as a consequence of the raised 4th degree in the scale. The raised fourth-degree of the mode can also sound slightly dissonant.
Tip
Dorian = 2nd mode of the Major Scale – Raised 6th degree of Minor Scale Lydian = 4th mode of the Major Scale – Raised 4th degree of Major Scale
In case you don’t know, a Minor 7th chord is just a regular Minor chord with the seventh note added to it, whereas a Major 7th chord is just a major chord with the 7th degree added to it. For example, think of a C Minor Chord. C Minor:
C Eb G
To make the above chord a C Minor 7th chord, you just have to add the 7th note from the root which would be the following: C Minor 7th:
C, Eb, G, Bb
Additionally, it’s important to note that the 7th chord is not only counted up from the beginning of the chord as the root but also the scale, as well. For instance, the notes of the C Minor scale are the following:
C, D, Eb, G, Ab, Bb, C
Notice the way that the B is flat in the key of C Minor. So if you wanted to make the C Minor 7th chord, you would add the flat-seventh to the chord, Bb, making it a C Minor 7th chord.
The same rule applies to the C Major 7th chord. In the key of C major, there are no accidentals (no sharps or flats), so you just add the 7th note of the scale again but there are no sharps or flats on any of the notes of the chord. C Major Chord:
C, E, G
To make this the C Major 7th chord, just add the B to make: C Major 7th:
C, E, G, B
The major and minor 7th chords are commonly employed not only in aesthetic music but also in Lo-Fi, so pay attention. Coincidentally, Drake comes to mind when I think of a popular artist whose producers commonly make beats with minor 7th chords. For instance, the song, “With You,” uses Dorian vibes, and many of his other songs do as well.
Aesthetic and lo-fi also use other tonalities, but I’m just pointing out that if you want that chilled out or dream-like sound, minor and minor 7th chords are a great place to start. It’s worth mentioning that other chords like Major and Minor 9th chords are great for this as well, but I digress. Here’s a demonstration of the dorian mode: 3) Aesthetic Songs Commonly Use Jazz and Soundscape Instruments
When it comes to the instruments, you can get really creative and use all kinds of sounds and effects. However, I find it’s best to use instruments that are commonly associated with jazz and other similar styles of music. Some of the most ubiquitous sounds in aesthetic music are the following: Soft or Regular Piano
I would go ahead and argue that the soft piano, or just a regular piano, is the defining instrument of Aesthetic music. There always seems to be a piano of some kind in Aesthetic tracks, at least in some form or another, whether it’s a regular grand piano, a soft piano, or a ragtime piano. Spectrasonics’ Keyscape (from Plugin Fox) is the best piano library if you’re serious about getting a good piano.
But if you’re looking for something great that doesn’t cost any money, I couldn’t recommend the Soft Piano from Spitfire Audio Labs enough. It’s a fantastic piano instrument, and I’ve explained before that it’s probably the best one I’ve ever used. More importantly, it’s free, and there are some other great features about Spitfire Audio Labs that you definitely don’t want to miss out on. Electric Clean Guitar (with no distortion)
For the electric guitar – which is quite simple to connect to Garageband using my guide – I would suggest using a clean preset such as the Cool Jazz Combo, or something very similar. Other great ones to use are Dyna-Trem, Dublin Delay, or Clean Studio Stack. Garageband’s Amp Designer has a lot of presets and featuresthat are definitely worth exploring if you plan on using an electric guitar to make an aesthetic track.
One of the most important tips for recording electric guitar into a DAW is to use a metronome or a click-track of some kind. This will ensure your recording is actually on time, and you’ll be in a much better position to create synchronized music when the time comes to add other instruments and sounds.
Grab an iRig HD 2 off of Amazon for a cheap price if you want to get started with recording guitar sounds in your beats. Some guitars are better than others for recording in a DAW, and for that, I would suggest the PRS SE Custom 24 from ZZounds which is very versatile. It can be used for pretty much everything. Soundscape Instruments
Garageband, thankfully, has a ton of great soundscape instruments, such as String Movements, Event Horizon, Air Bells, Delicate Bells, Antarctic Sun, and Splatter Tables. However, in the case that you’re already sick of what Garageband has to offer, I would highly suggest grabbing Native Instruments’ Komplete 13 from ZZounds if you want the best instruments available (I’ve written about the free version, Komplete Start, in my other article).
Bells
Other great things to use are bells and other instruments that have an ambient vibe. Bells are a great way to add spaciousness, airiness, or even a sweet, light-hearted sound that is a characteristic of ambient music. For example, I used the Hybrid Keys from Native Instruments for this particular tutorial and song.
Some of the bells you can use in Garageband include the Delicate Bells, Splatter Tables, and more, just in case you don’t want to add any more plug-ins.
Xylophones and Marimbas
Get the Xylophone from my other article.
The same thing could be said about xylophones and marimbas. These two instruments tend to produce a very happy, sweet, or chilled out sound, and they’re fantastic to use for Aesthetic music. GarageBand comes with a great marimba by default, however, if you want to get your hands on a Xylophone, I have an article on where to get it (linked above).
Upright Bass
The Upright Bass is another instrument that is commonly associated with jazz music. If you want a jazzy instrument, then look no further than the Upright Bass. This is a great way to add a nice, plucking, low-end with a chilled out and ambient vibe.4) Aesthetic Songs Commonly Have A Slow BPM (70-100)
I would argue that the last thing to pay attention to when making Aesthetic Music is the slow BPM. As a general rule, aesthetic music is always incredibly slow. Usually between 70-100 BPM, sometimes even slower. If the song was fast, it would sound completely different, like some kind of ambient house music rather than Aesthetic or Lo-Fi.
This is really quite self-explanatory. Either set the BPM around 70-100 in the top center console of Garageband’s interface or just pay attention to how you’ve spaced out the drum kit notes when creating your beat. Without further ado, let’s explore how to use the aforementioned principles and instruments to make aesthetic music. Making Aesthetic Music in Garageband (Step-By-Step Guide)1) Making the Drum Beat
As I suggested already above, go ahead and download the Cymatics Lo-Fi Toolkit package and read my article on sampling if you don’t know how to load these sounds into your DAW. Once you’ve downloaded your kits and sounds, you can either do what I said and use the Drum Loops and melodies it comes with, or you can make something up on your own, which I assume is what you want to do if you’re reading this article.
Load up the instrument sounds in Garageband, including the Kick, Snare, Open and Closed Hi-Hats, and potentially a Shaker or a Ride. Hi-Hats (Open and Closed)
The first thing I did when I made my beat is that I made the hi-hat notes almost immediately simply because they’re the easiest to do and it’s a great way to get started.
You’ll notice how far apart the notes are spaced out from each other. This is what’s going to determine how slow they are, so pay attention to this. I find that when using the standard BPM of 120, you want your hi-hats to be on every other grid-line to sound slow. If you set the BPM to around 70, the notes should probably be on every grid-line.
For the closed hi-hats, I made them a little faster and I also used a stylized hi-hat roll which descends down the piano roll which sets up the Snare to strike right after. Creating hi-hat and snare rolls is pretty easy and I have other tricks that you can use to add more flavor and style to your rhythm section. Kick
As you’ve probably gathered by now, when making Aesthetic or Lo-Fi music, you want the drums to hit fairly slowly which means there won’t be many notes. For example, when I made my Kick in this particular track, you can see that there are really only around 4 kick hits per 8 bars.
That’s not a lot. And this obviously isn’t a rule, but the point is that there aren’t a lot of kicks just because if there were, it would have the effect of making it a bit faster and aggressive sounding. You’ll also notice in the image below that I extended the kick notes so they’re very long. I did that just so they boom more in conjunction with the 808s. Snare
The same thing can be said about the snare as well, in fact, the snare hits even less than any of the other instruments in the song, about every third beat.
And that’s pretty much it for the drumbeat. One thing about aesthetic mus
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