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
Force Touch trackpad gestures in GarageBand on Mac
If you have a Force Touch trackpad, you can some GarageBand functions by force clicking. To force click, you press firmly on the trackpad until you feel a deeper click.
Create a new, empty MIDI region
In the GarageBand for Mac Tracks area, force click an empty area in a software instrument track.
Add an audio file to an audio track
In the GarageBand for Mac Tracks area, force click an empty area in an audio track, then choose an audio file from the menu that appears.
Add a note
In the GarageBand for Mac Piano Roll Editor or Score Editor, force click an empty part of the editing area.
Delete a note
In the GarageBand for Mac Piano Roll Editor or Score Editor, force click a note.
Open the New Track dialog
In the GarageBand for Mac Tracks area, force click the empty area below the last (lowest) track header.
Add automation points at region borders
In the GarageBand for Mac Tracks area, force click the automation area of a region.
The trackpad also provides feedback (you feel a subtle vibration) when you reorder tracks, move a region to a different track, adjust track volume and pan, and perform other actions.