GarageBand User Guide
- Welcome
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- Play a lesson
- Choose the input source for your guitar
- Customise 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
- Practise 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
- Copyright
Add Apple Loops to a project in GarageBand on Mac
After searching for loops in the Loop Browser and finding the ones you want to use, you add them to your project. In the Tracks area, you can move, copy, extend, and make other changes to the loops.
Many Apple Loops are part of a loop “family.” Loops that are part of a family have the same name, but each has a unique number at the end. For example, Classic Rock Guitar 01 and Classic Rock Guitar 02 belong to the same family. Loops in the same family work well together. After you add a loop to your project, you can easily replace it with any other loop in the same family. You can quickly try out different loops in the same family to see which one you like best.
Add a loop to your project
In GarageBand on Mac, do one of the following:
Drag a loop to an empty area of the Tracks area, below the existing tracks.
A new track of the appropriate type (audio, MIDI or Drummer) is created, and the loop is added to the new track.
Drag an audio loop (blue) to an audio track.
Drag a MIDI loop (green) to a software instrument track.
Drag a MIDI loop (green) to an audio track to convert it to an audio loop.
Drag a drummer loop (yellow) to a Drummer track.
Drag a drummer loop (yellow) to a software instrument track to convert it to a MIDI loop.
Drag a drummer loop (yellow) to an audio track to convert it to an audio loop.
The added Apple Loop always matches the project tempo.
Quickly choose a different loop in the same family
In GarageBand on Mac click the up and down arrows in the upper-left corner of the loop.
Choose a new loop from the pop-up menu.
The loop you chose replaces the original loop.
Extend a loop so it repeats
In GarageBand on Mac, with the loop selected, do one of the following:
Drag the upper-right edge of the region for the desired number of repetitions.
Press the keyboard shortcut for Loop selected region continuously (L).
For more information on looping regions, see Loop regions in GarageBand on Mac.