Looking for an Easy Way to Match the Rhythm of a Song

I want to find a way to add some additional drum sounds to a song that I have imported into GarageBand from iTunes. Here is what I have tried so far:
1) I tried to match the beat by playing along with the MIDI-keyboard. But I am not very accurate. I thought this might help me find a pattern that I could copy and paste and move around in the MIDI track. But my lack of precision really shows about 50% of the time. It's just not working.
2) I tried to take a portion of the MIDI-beats that I created and align them to the waveform beats I see in the song. I do this by aligning the playhead with the peak of a beat in the song track. Then I drag a beat in the MIDI track to align with the playhead. This works OK for a few seconds. But then, after replicating this pattern (that I want to make into a Loop) for about a minute, the timing is off.
I wish I could take that whole pattern/Loop and stretch or shrink the whole thing out just a little bit to bring it back into alignment after that minute of playback. Then I could duplicate this full minute of re-timed beats a few times and be done with it. But I can't figure out how to do that without exporting the MIDI track and re-importing with degraded sound after "rasterzing" (I'm an image editing kinda guy) the MIDI.
3) Tried various effects to boost just the drum beats but the alteration of the rest of the song is too extreme. I duplicate the original layer and sound, apply the effect, and play both tracks back at once. This helps boost the bass or drums a bit, but I want to add a completely different percussion beat to the overall song, not some modified "schmooshed" sound with low frequency sound amplification.
Any suggestions? As you can tell, I am not an audio expert(!), so please feel free to couch your advice as though you are speaking to an idiot. I have a feeling that figuring out the tempo of the song and measures and such will help out... but I am out of my league here. I quit practicing the piano at about age 10!
I don't mind that it's not a single-push-button miracle or doing a bit of work. I just can't seem to get some sort of accurate rhythm to be generated.
Thanks!

Achy Fakey wrote:
Well, thanks for trying. I have attempted this several times and I keep getting the same problem. After about 20 seconds or so, the beat starts to fall off of the chosen tempo markers. I just can't seem to get this to work. I think, even though I am not an audio recording experts, that GB is just too low-end for what I need to do in terms of stretching out the audio I create to match and sync up. It's like needing the control level of AfterEffects and getting stuck with iMovie.
I'll keep taking stabs at it, but I think I'll just have to give up soon.
Thanks again for the suggestions!
As you suspect, there are other applications designed to make easier work of this than Garageband.
As far as I can tell, Christoph's method seems pretty cool unless, I'm guessing, the original song does not follow a rigid metronomic tempo. If the song you're trying to match does not itself fit a grid, then I would think that no matter how much you reference a sample of 4 measures, it's gonna drift.
Christoph: am I right in assuming your method only works for songs that obey a consistent metronome?
Achy Fakey: am I right in assuming your song does not obey a consistent metronome?

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