Can I make a bin of pre-cut music music tracks?

I am making a little edit. I am an avid/fcp editor.
At the moment I am using imovie.
I want to lay downmy music tracks first. Can I make a bin to pull from where I have pre-edited the tracks?
PLEASE say yes...
On fcp  I would precut all my music choices, then lasso them all and move them around so easily....
imovie seems incredibly cumbersome to do this- dragging tracks only one at a time... and even then. can I insert them cleanly adter one tracks is over and just "push down" what else is in the cut??
PLEASE help!
Susan

to answer your question, we  have to discuss different 'levels':
• sure, you can use the audio-tool of the iLife suite, Garageband, to pre-edit audio clips; 'share' it, and - and that is a concept of iLife-apps - you have access to those audio clips in any othe iLife-app, here: iMovie/Music
• no tracks.
iMovie (and its bigger brother FCPX) don't have 'tracks' anymore. Totally diff. concept: the storyline. Idea behind that: you lay out a single 'Ariadne's thread'. You are allowed to 'dock' clips (audio/video/stills/graphics) along that main line. Now, moving parts of the main storyline moves those accompanied parts too (=magnetic timeline).
in FCPX this storyline could be music only! (not so in iMovie)
• a workaround: add 'any' video clip to your Project (or just a colored background). now, you can drag your music to that 'main' clip and replace parts of it
• no tracks, pt II
EditMom wrote:
…  can I insert them cleanly adter one tracks is over and just "push down" what else is in the cut??
you can add as many audio-clips as you want to the main storyline.
moving a clip, pushes others 'away'.
but: no tracks, so what do you mean by 'push down'? look …:
the first music clip is connected to the first video clip. 2nd one to 2nd videoclip.
dragging the 2nd video to a diff. position in the timeline would move the 2nd music too.
very handy in case of sound-effects:
the first clip has 3 sfx; moving that first video moves ALL connected clips too (=magnetic). I don't have to care for any tracks, don't have to 'compound' clips - all connected, just drag to create your 'story'.-
• iMovie limitations: iM is meant for simple consumer task: import from camera, organizing material, simple edit, add music/narration, perhaps a title, "A Day In The Zoo" done
if you own legacy FC/pro, I would consider using that - espescially, if you're 'thinking in tracks' - no tracks, no layers, no 'free floating clip somewhere in time' with these tools

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