Apple GarageBand Jam Pack User Manual Rythm Section Tips
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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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