We will be starting our adventure in music by laying down the drums. Drums are an important foundation in many styles of music, and will greatly influence how you create the rest of your music. Did I mention that it’s also fun? 

The process of recording drums in our DAW will be slightly different between the iPad and the laptop — but we will start at the same place, by pressing add new track, then selecting drums and grooves. If you are on the iPad, you’re good to go. If you are on the laptop, flip to the patterns tab:

Patterns is a type of step sequencer. Step sequencer are great for creating repetitive rhythms in your music. Try clicking in a few random notes, press play, and see what happens.

In many genres of music, this kind of random drums are commonplace. Let's see if we can organize our drums in a specific way with the snare on beat 2 and beat 4?

In music we call this snare pattern a backbeat. Try filling in the kick and the hi-hat around the backbeat.

Next we’ll slow down the tempo of the music. By default the tempo is set to the number 120, followed by the words BPM, or beats per minute. The smaller the number, the slower the music, and larger the number, the faster the music will be. 
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To change the tempo on the iPad, select settings on the top right hand corner, then select change tempo.

To change the tempo on the laptop, look for the tempo icon on the bottom right with a number, in between the transport and the metronome icon.