Basic Editing -how? Options

[Foxyphil]

If anyone could help me solve this most basic of problems -I will be unutterably grateful!!

I have had Logic Express 7 for a while now (upgraded to 8 last week -but my emac G4 just cannot cope with that).

The problem is that I have no idea how to edit -i.e I don't know how I would go about recording -say - 8 bars of an instrument -save that -and then record another 8 bars on a seperate "take" -on the same track with the same instrument.

I have more or less been using logic as a glorified analogue 8 track. I think I could "blag" performing sections by using the loop record function -although I haven't tested that out yet.

Secondly -if someone was kind enough to help me with this -I have still not figured out how to get a "count In" -from any part of the song apart from Bar 1.

Help me solve this and you will make my year.

Best wishes

Phil x