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
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 Tracks area ofGarageBand on Mac force-click an empty area in a software instrument track.
Add an audio file to an audio track
In the Tracks area ofGarageBand on Mac force-click an empty area in an audio track, then choose an audio file from the menu that appears.
Add a note
In the Piano Roll Editor or Score Editor of GarageBand on Mac force-click an empty part of the editing area.
Delete a note
In the Piano Roll Editor or Score Editor of GarageBand on Mac force-click a note.
Open the New Track dialogue
In the Tracks area of GarageBand on Mac force-click the empty area below the last (lowest) track header.
Add automation points at region borders
In the Tracks area of GarageBand on Mac 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.