Drum kit isn't working

I just bought my first macbook pro and I have never owned a mac before and I am very interested in making my own music and I have a program called Garageband and I have played with it for a few hours and can only get the piano functions to work but can't figure out how to get the drumkit to work. I can get it pulled up but when I put it on the mode where you use your keyboard to make the sounds, it doesn't make any sounds but I can see that the keys I'm pressing are being pushed on the electronic keyboard, any ideas?

a few thoughts...
make sure you created a software instrument track (the plus sign, lower left) and selected a drumset as the instrument (drum kits on the right).
as a test, select the Rock Kit, because that doesn't require any additional downloads.
make sure the track is selected (click it - it should be green), and play.
still not working? try playing in a different register on your keyboard.
no joy? try resetting your keyboard to its factory defaults. sometimes there are MIDI problems and that can resolve them. otherwise, make sure the keyboard is transmitting on MIDI channel 1.
any luck?

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