Multiple clips playing simultaneously

Hello,
I am a complete newbie to Final Cut Pro. I have this movie I want to make which I can't do in iMovie. The video is a song I wrote with me singing all the parts, and I want the movie to show all the clips of me singing simultaneously. I managed to film all the clips, and get them spliced and named in final cut pro, and I have the audio file locked in the right place. Can someone tell me the basic command I need to use to get the simultaneous video clip thing going? Hopefully I'll be able to read that section of the manual and make it work, but I have no idea where to begin.
Also: what is the deal with rendering? If I've got this straight, I have to render a clip each time I've changed it in any way in order to view it in the Canvas?
Thanks,
Dave

Wow, this is fantastic, thanks a lot. Now that that's answered, I'm getting more ambitious - got any tips on how to get the clips to change size and move around during the movie?

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