Appendix H. GENERAL MIDI DRUM KEY MAP
When you use the keyboard to play a musical instrument, each key represents a different note of the same instrument. But drum Software Instruments assign a different instrument to each note.
The map shown in Figure H.1 is the General MIDI drum map guideline; different drum kits may map slightly different instruments to a key. For example, one drum kit might have a handclap mapped D#1 (the standard), but another kit might have a snare roll mapped to D#1. Overall, though, drum kits for the most part conform to this map.
Figure H.1. With GarageBand's virtual drum kits, you can forego the drumsticks (and the drummer).
Not all drum kits conform exactly to the same drum map.
It is handy, therefore, to have a chart ...
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