GarageBand User Guide
- Welcome
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- Play a lesson
- Choose the input source for your guitar
- Customize the lesson window
- See how well you played a lesson
- Measure your progress over time
- Slow down a lesson
- Change the mix of a lesson
- View full-page music notation
- View glossary topics
- Practice guitar chords
- Tune your guitar in a lesson
- Open lessons in the GarageBand window
- Get additional Learn to Play lessons
- If your lesson doesn’t finish downloading
- Touch Bar shortcuts
- Glossary
Get more sounds and loops for GarageBand on Mac
After you install GarageBand on your computer, additional content—including patches, drummers, and Apple Loops—may be available.
Some additional content may be needed to perform certain tasks. In these instances, a dialog appears, informing you that additional content is needed, and asking if you want to download it.
In case the Sound Library is altered or stops working, you can reinstall the patches, loops, and other content in the Sound Library to its correct location.
Some additional content can also be downloaded directly in the Library and the Loop Browser.
Download additional sounds and loops
In GarageBand on Mac, choose GarageBand > Sound Library > Download All Available Sounds.
In the dialog, click Get.
Download additional content in the Library or the Loop Browser
Items in the Library and the Loop Browser that require additional content are indicated by a Download button 
.
In GarageBand on Mac, click the Download button
next to the item name.
Reinstall the Sound Library
In GarageBand on Mac, choose GarageBand > Sound Library > Reinstall Sound Library.
In the dialog, click Reinstall.