Loops with live music

I'm a drummer trying to use loops to play with live music, can you use garage band with triggers to start and stop loops to play with live music?

I'm doing the same. There are a couple of ways to do it, but no remote triggers that I'm aware of. If I'm doing a cover tune, I'll pull the tune itself in to GB as a track. I slide it over to a measure to leave room for a count in. Then I build the loop/tracks around the track with the original song. Then I mute the original track and I'm good to go. To start it, I only need to reach over and hit the space bar and off we go.
The one thing I puzzled by is using the loops with multiple tunes. How would I quickly switch from one tune to another? I thought of outputting to itunes, but I'd loose a lot of control. I wonder what the guys on ProTools do?

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