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Tips for Using GarageBand Jam Pack 3:
Rhythm Section Instruments
The GarageBand Rhythm Section package contains over 50 Software Instrument presets you can
use to create rhythm and backing tracks in a variety of styles. Rhythm Section includes Software
Instruments in the following categories:
Drum Kits, including several complete new kits and a drum toolkit.
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Guitars, including a steel resonator guitar, a bluegrass banjo, an acoustic folk guitar, and three
new electric guitars, with harmonics and tapping.
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Basses, including a variety of new electric basses and an “unplugged” acoustic bass guitar.
Mallets, including a steel drum band.
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This document describes the Drum Kit, Bass, Guitar, and Mallet instruments included in Rhythm
Section, and lists controller information for each instrument.
Drum Kits
Rhythm Section includes 10 new drum kits, featuring both classic and contemporary drum
sounds. In addition, you can modify the sound of each drum kit in real time using keyboard
controllers, including the modulation (mod) wheel and pitch bend wheel. The following table
lists controller information for the drum kits.
Drum Kit Controller Info
Cavern Kit
Headbanger Kit
Indie Kit
Indie Kit Live
Roadhouse Kit
Seventies Kit
Studio Brush Kit
Studio Heavy Kit
Studio Tight Kit
Warehouse Kit
Raising the mod wheel closes the cutoff filter and increases resonance.
Moving the pitch bend wheel raises or lowers the pitch of many drum
sounds (up to 3 octaves higher or lower), so you can change their pitch
over time.
You can shorten or lengthen the length of most drum sounds using the
Release slider in the Generator editor window. Drag the slider left to create
short, tight, punchy sounds, used in certain styles of music.
When using the hi-hat drum sounds (notes F#1 and A#1 in most drum
kits), playing one note will stop the sound of the previously played note,
like closing a hi-hat with a foot pedal.
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There is one additional instrument in the Drum Kits: Studio Toolkit. This instrument uses a
different organization from the other drum kits.
Instrument Description Controller Info
Studio Toolkit Includes a variety of sounds for each
type of drum, including kick and
snare drum, tom-tom, rim shot,
hi-hats, and cymbals
Raising the mod wheel closes the
cutoff filter and increases
resonance.
Organization of Drum Kit Sounds
The sounds in the Rhythm Section drum kits are organized across the keyboard in the following
general order:
Notes below C0: Miscellaneous sounds relevant to the genre.
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Notes C0 to C1: Alternate drum kit sounds.
Notes C1 to B2: Standard drum kit sounds, including kick drum, snare, hi-hats, ride cymbals,
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crash cymbals, and toms.
Notes C3 to A#3: Basic Latin percussion, including bongo, congas, timbales and agogo.
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Notes B3 to D#5: More Latin and other exotic percussion, including triangle, wood block,
claves, guiro, and cuica.
Notes above D#5: Sound effects and other miscellaneous sounds.
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As mentioned above, Studio Toolkit uses a different organization.
c0 c1 c2 c3 c4 c5
Note: On most smaller music keyboards, you can access higher and lower octaves using the
keyboard’s octave up and octave down controls. See the instructions that came with your
keyboard.
Drum Kit Effects
Most Rhythm Section drum kits include optional effects commonly applied to drum tracks in the
kit’s genre. When you select the track with one of the drum kits, these effects appear in the
Details area of the Track Info window, but are turned off. You can turn them on by clicking the
checkbox next to each effect.
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Bass
Bass, together with drums, forms the foundation of the rhythm section, defining the rhythmic
groove of a song. Rhythm Section includes several classic bass guitar sounds you can use to
create the right groove for the style of your song.
Instrument Description Controller Info
Aggressive Fretless Fretless electric bass with strong
bite and attack
Attitude Bass
Glam Rock Bass
Grind Bass
Liverpool Bass Electric bass with a round, lyrical
Motown Bass Deep, warm electric bass
Prog Rock Bass
Underwater Bass
Science Bass
Prog Rock Muted Like Prog Rock Bass, but notes are
Session Bass Detailed “custom shop” electric bass
Stinger Bass Classic funky electric bass with extra
Subby Bass Contemporary electric bass with
Fretless electric bass played with a
pick for heavier styles such as
alternative rock, punk, and metal
tone for classic rock and melodic
pop
reminiscent of the classic Motown
sound
Picked electric bass with wiry treble
sound, rounded out with a warm
amp tone that captures the sound
of progressive art rock from the 70s
and 80s
dampened, with less sustain
with a unique tone designed to be
warm and punchy in a mix
high-end prescence to cut through
drums and complex mixes
strong sub-bass overtones
Mod wheel adds vibrato.
Highest velocity adds slide down
to note.
Mod wheel adds slide up to note.
Higher velocity increases attack
and intensity. Lowest velocity
plays stopped notes.
Notes below E0 play slides and
dives.
Mod wheel makes the sound
more muted.
Highest velocity adds a slide down
from the note.
Notes below E0 give slides,
harmonics, and pick sound.
Mod wheel makes the sound
more muted.
Highest velocity adds a slide down
from the note.
Notes below E0 give slides,
harmonics, and pick sound.
Mod wheel adds lower octave
doubling.
Highest velocity changes pick
sound.
Notes below E0 play slides, dives,
and pick sound.
Notes below E0 play slides, dives,
and pick sound.
Mod wheel combined with
highest velocity plays trills.
Mod wheel adds slide down to
note.
Higher velocities increase bite and
loudness. Lowest velocity plays
stopped note.
Mod wheel up combined with
higher velocity adds slide down to
note.
Mod wheel adds vibrato.
Higher velocity adds loudness and
intensity.
Mod wheel makes the sound
more muted.
Velocity adds ring. Highest
velocity adds slide down from
note.
Notes below E0 play slides, dives,
and pick sound.
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Instrument Description Controller Info
Thumbstroke Bass
Reggae Bass
Unplugged Bass Acoustic bass guitar with a “played
Rich electric bass played with a soft
thumb downstroke, for reggae and
other deep bass styles
live” sound, for organic, earthy
songs
Mod wheel adds vibrato.
Highest velocity adds loudness
and intensity.
Mod wheel adds vibrato.
Highest velocity adds loudness
and intensity.
Guitars
Guitars are one of the defining instruments in many popular music styles. Rhythm Section
includes both acoustic and electric guitars, as well as other popular fretted string instruments,
such as the banjo.
Instrument Description Controller Info
Acoustic Harmonics
Flutter Harmonics
Bluegrass Banjo
Atlantis Banjo
Bluesy Acoustic Acoustic guitar with a darker,
Dobro Slide
Swamp Dobro
Dobro Chords Each note plays a chord or interval,
Eighties Electric
Eighties Electric Clean
Acoustic guitar harmonics
Traditional plucked bluegrass banjo
woodier tone for blues and
alternative rock
Steel resonator guitar (used in
bluegrass, folk, and other styles)
some with slides up to the chord.
Electric guitar with heavy amp
distortion, chorus, and echo. Good
for hard rock, heavy metal, and
power ballads.
Mod wheel adds sustain.
Highest velocity plays tap with
harmonics.
Mod wheel adds vibrato.
Low velocities alternate between
stopped and muted note. Higher
velocities sound more open.
Highest velocity adds slides up to
note.
Notes below E0 play chordal rolls,
string slides.
Mod wheel combined with
highest velocity: Low position
adds slide up to note, Mid
position adds blue note slides,
high position adds harmonics.
Highest velocity has slides;
different velocity levels change
the attack and string vibrato.
Notes below E0 has taps, stopped
strums, and other instrument
sounds.
Mod wheel adds vibrato.
Higher velocities increase vibrato;
highest velocity add slides.
Notes below E0 play body taps,
slides, and other instrument
sounds.
Notes E0 to A#3 play major
chords. Notes B3 to E5 play minor
chords. Notes above E5 play open
fourths.
Mod wheel adds velocity.
Velocity increases loudness and
intensity.
Mod wheel adds vibrato.
Higher velocities add intensity.
Highest velocity plays harmonics.
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Instrument Description Controller Info
Eighties Power Chords Each note plays a complete power
chord or power strum.
Pinch Harmonics Overdriven electric guitar with
special harmonics that “squeal” from
just the right pick attack. Good for
ripping lead guitar solos.
Sunburst Electric
Sunburst Lead
Festival Lead
Vintage Electric
Revolving Lines
New Surf Lead
Sunburst Power Chords
Mosh Pit
Twangy Electric
Tie Dye Lead
Twangy Strumming Each note plays a complete major
Vintage “humbucking” electric
guitar, good for classic rock, blues.
Sound includes high-gain amp
simulation and effects.
Each note plays a complete power
chord or power strum.
Single-coil electric guitar, good for
pop, rock, country, Texas blues, and
surf music
or minor chord, with adjacent
octaves playing up and down
strums.
Notes B0 through A2 play power
chords; notes B2 through A4 play
stopped (muted) chords.
Mod wheel adds vibrato.
Higher velocities add intensity.
Mod wheel adds vibrato.
Highest level plays tap.
Mod wheel adds vibrato.
Higher velocities add intensity.
Notes B0 through A2 play power
chord. Notes B2 through A4 play
stopped (muted) chords.
Mod wheel adds vibrato.
Higher velocities add intensity.
Mod wheel adds vibrato.
Higher velocities increase
intensity.
Notes E2 through D#4 play major
chords; notes E4 through D#6 play
minor chords.
Mod wheel adds vibrato.
Higher velocities increase
intensity.
Mallets
Rhythm Section includes a Caribbean steel drum instrument.
Instrument Description Controller Info
Caribbean Steel Drums Full ensemble of steel drums for
festive island sound.
The steel drums are arranged
chromatically across the keyboard,
like a piano.
Mod wheel repeats or “rolls” each
note.
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