Silence at the end of a vocal track in garageband?

I tried piecing together two vocal tracks in garageband, but when i did so, there was a silence in the beginning of the second track. When i moved the second track a few bars forward it would play normally, but if i put it right behind the other track, there is a silence before the second part plays. How do i fix this? Please help!

Have you tried to trim the audio regions and remove the silence at the start and the end, before you join the regions in one track? You can either select the region, position the cursor at the end of the silent part and then use command-T to split the region, then delete the silent part, or simply position the cursor at the end of the loop the end of the region and drag the end to trim it and to remove the silence.
Regards
Léonie

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