On your Mac, GarageBand sends you on your way to your first gig by teaching you guitar or piano. Start by clicking Learn to Play from GarageBand’s opening screen and choose Guitar Lessons or Piano Lessons. You also find an Artist Lessons option, but skip that for the moment. GarageBand Guitar lessons for PC – Play Like a Pro – GarageBand is one of the popular software used in iOS devices. With the help of this software, he user can create music compositions or podcasts.

Tutorial 2: Learning to Play
Guitar and Piano

Learn to Play lessons make it easy to learn guitar and
piano in GarageBand. You can learn basic techniques and
also purchase Artist Lessons to learn songs from the
artists who created them.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to:

Â Open a Learn to Play lesson
Â View the video instruction for a lesson and play along
Â Choose chapters and subchapters
Â Practice a section of a lesson repeatedly
Â Slow down a lesson to learn a difficult passage
Â Play and record your own instrument in a lesson
Â Mix the instruments in a lesson
Â Customize the appearance of the Learn to Play window
Â Open a lesson in GarageBand
Â Get additional Learn to Play lessons

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Opening a Learn to Play Lesson

GarageBand includes one basic lesson for guitar and one for piano. In the New Project
dialog, you can choose and open the lessons installed on your computer. You can also
download additional free basic lessons and purchase Artist Lessons in the New Project
dialog.

To open a Learn to Play lesson:

Choose File > New.

In the New Project dialog, click Learn to Play.

The basic lessons installed on your computer appear in the main area of the window.

Click the lesson you want to open, then click Choose.

The lesson opens in a full-screen view, with a video window in the upper part of the
window, and an animated fretboard (for guitar lessons) or keyboard (for piano lessons)
in the lower part of the window. Below the animated instrument is the control bar,
which includes controls to play the lesson, turn on the metronome and the cycle
region, slow down the lesson, record your instrument as you play along with the
lesson, and more.

Choosing Chapters and Subchapters

Each Learn to Play lesson includes two chapters: Learn and Play Along. In the Learn
chapter, the teacher gives video instruction on how to play the song, including any
relevant techniques or special tunings. In the Play Along chapter, you can play the
entire song without interruption, or choose one or more sections to practice. Artist
lessons also include a Story chapter with information about the song and the artist.

Some lessons include Simple and Advanced subchapters. The chapters and subchapters
for the lesson appear on the left side of the video area when you open the lesson. You
can choose a different chapter or subchapter at any time while a lesson is open.

Speed slider

Play button

Record button

Cycle button

Metronome

Volume slider

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To choose a chapter or subchapter:

If the chapter list is not visible, move the pointer over the left side of the video area.

Select the chapter or subchapter you want to play.

Playing a Lesson

After you choose the chapter you want to play, you can start playing the lesson.

To play a lesson:

Click the Play button, or press the Space bar.

To stop playback:

Click the Play button, or press the Space bar again.

The lesson starts playing from the beginning. Above the control bar, the playhead
shows the section of the lesson currently playing. You can play the complete lesson or
play individual sections.

To play a section of a lesson:

Click the section you want to play in the row above the control bar. You can select
multiple sections by Shift-clicking them.

If the lesson is playing, it starts from the beginning of the selected section. If it is
stopped, press the Space bar to start playback from the selected section.

You can also play one or more sections repeatedly. This can be particularly useful when
you want to practice a new or difficult part of the lesson.

Select chapters and

subchapters here.

Click the Cycle button
before clicking a section
to play the section
repeatedly.

Click the section
you want to play.

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To play a section repeatedly:

Click the Cycle button (with curved arrows) in the control bar.

Click the section you want to play. Shift-click adjacent sections to play them in
sequence.

Click the Play button, or press the Space bar.

The selected sections start playing, and continue to repeat until you click the Play
button or press the Space bar again.

Playing Your Instrument with a Lesson

You can play your guitar or piano along with the lesson. If you’re playing a music
keyboard, you only need to connect your keyboard to your computer to play with the
lesson. If you’re playing a guitar, you must choose the input before you can play with
the lesson.

To choose the input for a guitar:

Click Setup.

The Setup window appears.

Choose the input source for your guitar from the My Input Device pop-up menu.

Â If your guitar is connected to the audio input port of your computer, choose Guitar.
Â If you’re playing your guitar using your computer’s built-in microphone, choose

Internal Mic.

Â If you’re playing your guitar using a microphone connected to an audio interface,

choose External Mic.

Â If your guitar is connected to an audio interface, choose External Guitar.

If you’re playing your guitar using a microphone, choose Monitor Off to avoid feedback.
If your guitar is connected to the audio input port or an audio interface, or if you’re
listening to GarageBand using headphones rather than speakers, choose Monitor On.

When you’re finished, click Setup again to return to the lesson.

Now you’re ready to play along with the lesson.

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Changing the Speed of a Lesson

You can slow down a lesson to make it easier to learn or practice a difficult part of the
lesson. You can slow down the lesson to as much as half the original speed. As you
learn to play the part more easily, you can gradually speed up the lesson to the original
tempo.

To change the speed of a lesson:

Drag the Speed slider, located in the control bar next to the metronome, to the left to
slow down the lesson.

To speed up the lesson, drag the Speed slider to the right.

You can change the speed of the lesson when the lesson is playing or stopped.

Recording Your Instrument in a Lesson

You can record your instrument in a lesson, including recording multiple takes.
Recording your instrument can help you critique your playing and monitor your
progress. After you record your instrument, you can audition different takes, choose the
take you want to hear with the lesson, and delete unwanted takes.

To record your instrument in a lesson:

Click the section you want to record in, or move the playhead to the point where you
want to start recording.

Click the Record button.

The metronome gives a one-measure count-in before recording starts at the playhead
position, to help you start playing on the beat. As you record, your recording appears in
a strip above the control bar.

Start playing your instrument.

When you’re finished recording, click the Play button.

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