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
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Get more Learn to Play lessons in GarageBand on Mac
GarageBand includes a complete series of Learn to Play lessons that teach you the fundamentals of guitar and piano. One guitar and one piano lesson are pre-installed on your Mac, and you can download additional lessons in GarageBand. You can also download Artist Lessons, featuring songs taught by the artists who made them famous.
You can download additional lessons in the Project Chooser, and preview Artist Lessons before you download them.
Download additional lessons
In GarageBand on Mac, choose File > New.
In the Project Chooser, click Lesson Store.
Click Guitar Lessons or Piano Lessons, depending on which instrument you’re using.
Different series with lessons you can download appear in the main area of the window.
Click the tile for a series of lessons to see information for that series.
To download a lesson, click the Download button, or click the Download All button to download a series of lessons.
The lesson begins to download. A progress bar shows the status of the download. After the download has finished, double-click the lesson to open it.
Download Artist Lessons
In GarageBand on Mac, choose File > New.
In the Project Chooser, click Lesson Store.
Click Artist Lessons.
Artist Lessons for both guitar and piano appear in the main area of the window.
Click an Artist Lesson to see the preview page for the lesson.
The preview starts playing.
You can use the preview controls to stop and restart the preview, adjust the volume, move forward or back, or view the preview in full screen.
To download an Artist Lesson, click the Download button for the lesson.
The lesson begins to download. A progress bar shows the status of the download. After the download has finished, double-click the lesson to open it.
Pause downloading a lesson
In GarageBand on Mac, click the Pause button to the right of the progress bar.
To resume the download, click the Pause button again.