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

View glossary topics in GarageBand on Mac
Learn to Play includes a glossary that provides quick information about guitar, piano and general music subjects. While you’re taking a lesson, you can quickly refer to a glossary topic, and then continue with the lesson. Glossary topics can include video, graphics or text.
Glossary topics include:
- Articulations 
- Chords and scales 
- Guitar notation 
- Hand position and posture 
- Music notation 
- Notes on the fretboard (guitar) and keyboard (piano) 
- Picking and strumming 
- Using a capo 
Open the Learn to Play glossary
- In GarageBand on Mac, click the Glossary button in the upper-right area of the lesson window.  - The glossary appears, showing the categories of glossary topics.  
View a glossary topic
- In GarageBand on Mac, click one of the topics in the list. - If a list of subtopics appears, click a subtopic. - The glossary topic opens. The navigation area in the upper-left corner of the window shows the path to the current topic. If the topic includes a video, the video begins playing.  
Choose a different glossary topic
- In GarageBand on Mac, in the navigation area, do one of the following: - Click Glossary to return to the list of glossary topics. 
- If topics are visible in the upper-left part of the window, click a topic to view its subtopics. 
 
- Click the glossary topic you want to view. 
Return to the lesson
- In GarageBand on Mac, click the left-pointing arrow in the upper-left corner of the window. 