Time signature changes

Hey everybody. I got a song I'm sending to a friend who is a drummer. He needs a click track. Problem is, the song has several different time signatures throughout. A 4/4 click track makes things pretty confusing running through a whole song that isn't all in 4/4. Does anyone have a work around for this, or an idea they can throw my way? Is there a way I can program a click track as a single track of it's own? And if so, can I program it at different time signatures at certain times? Apologies if that's confusing. Only way I could think of wording it. Thanks.
Eric

Neither GarageBand on the iPad nor GarageBand on the Mac allow different time signatures in one song.
The best you can do in a project would be to set one Time Signature, and then ignore it in the sections of the song with a diferent signature.
To create a click track with different signatures, create a new project for each of the sections of the song with different signature, then share these as audio files to a computer and sync the audio back to the music app on your iPad.
Then create another project for the combined click track: import the audio sections as loops to one track (using the loop browser) and combine them to your click track.

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