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5 Working in the Timeline
You build your projects by arranging Real and Software
Instrument regions in the timeline.
Once you’ve added several loops to the timeline, you can make changes to their
regions in the timeline to start building the arrangement of the project.
You can arrange regions in the timeline by cutting, copying, and pasting, moving and
resizing, looping, and transposing them, by splitting and joining them, by fixing the
timing of Software Instrument regions, and by renaming regions.
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to:
 Select a single region or multiple regions
 Cut, copy, and paste regions
 Loop, resize, and move regions
 Transpose regions
 Split and join regions
 Fix the timing of Software Instrument regions
 Set Real Instrument regions to keep their original tempo
 Rename regions
 Use the timeline grid to snap regions to measures, beats, and other units of time
 Use Undo and Redo in GarageBand
About Regions
Each time you record a Real or Software Instrument, you create a region in the
instrument’s track containing the music you record. When you drag a loop to the
timeline, you create a region from the loop. Any changes you make to the region, such
as splitting or transposing it, do not change the original recording or loop.
A region’s color indicates what type of region it is:
 Purple—Real Instrument regions you record
 Blue—Real Instrument regions created from loops