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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
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Control playback with the transport buttons in GarageBand on Mac
You can use the transport buttons in the control bar to control playback, set the playhead position, and start or stop recording.
Control playback with the transport buttons
In GarageBand on Mac, click any of the following:
Rewind/Fast-Rewind button: Moves the playhead one bar to the left. Click and hold to fast-rewind.
Forward/Fast-Forward button: Moves the playhead one bar to the right. Click and hold to fast-forward.
Stop button: Stops playback or recording. Click a second time to move the playhead to the start of the project or the start of the cycle area.
Play button: Starts playback at the playhead position or from the start of the cycle area. You can also start or stop playback by pressing the Space bar.
Record button: Starts or stops recording on record-enabled tracks.
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