Editing (cut/paste/move) more than one track at a time

i'm new to mac/garageband and everything is going great so far. i'm currently using my fostex hardisc recorder to record basic tracks and then dumping them into my imac as wave files. i'm currently trying to edit a drum track that requires editing all 8 channels of drums. i can't figure out how to use the cut and paste feature on 8 tracks at once. is this possible? i read up on shift clicking to select more than one region but it doesn't seem to apply to the tracks. any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Welcome to the forum.
If I'm understanding, you want to cut a part of the 8 drum tracks, copy it, and paste it to a different part, all in one go?
If that's right, here's how you'd do it:
1. Select the top most track of the drum tracks by hitting the track header. This will be relevant in the pasting part. By hitting the track header, it will select all the regions in that track.
2. Either shift click all the regions you want to split, or you can rubberband-select them if you have blank space available to do it.
3. put the SPL where you want to cut. Then hit "apple" "T". If you want to have an endpoint, move the SPL to the place you want and hit "apple" "T" again.
4. Click on the background of the window to de-select all the regions. Then either rubberband-select all the newly cut regions, or use the **** click method. When they are all selected, hit "apple" "C".
5. At this point, make sure that the top most drum track is selected again. Put the SPL at the beginning of the place you want to place and hit "apple" "V".
Hope that helps.
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