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Setting the Tone for Your Song with an Introduction

A good song needs an introduction to set the mood before it gets going. An introduction also creates anticipation, and gives the listener a chance to tune in before the main part of the song starts.

You can create a simple introduction for your song by letting the drums play alone for a couple measures before the rest of the song starts.



Tips

Remove a section in the middle of a song

Choose Split from the Edit menu to create regions in loops that you can move around or remove. Remove regions from all but one track to break down your song, and leave just one instrument playing for a while.

Join two sections together

Choose Join from the Edit menu to join multiple regions into a single region. To be joined, the regions must be adjacent to each other and on the same track, with no space between them.

Steps

Create an introduction for your song

  1. Drag the zoom slider (located below the track headers) to the left until you can see the beginning and end of every loop in your song.
  2. Hold down the Shift key and click the bass, guitar, and piano loops.
  3. Drag the loops two measures to the right.
  4. Click the top-right corner of the drum loop and stretch it to line up with the end of the other tracks.
  5. Click Play to hear your introduction.