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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Use input monitoring in GarageBand on Mac
You can hear, or monitor, input from an instrument or microphone in GarageBand while you play and record. When you turn on monitoring for a track, you hear the sound from the musical instrument or microphone connected to the track’s input. Monitoring lets you hear yourself play so you can hear the part you want to record as well as the rest of the project. This is useful for setting audio levels or practising parts before you record.
Turn on input monitoring for an audio track
In GarageBand on Mac, click the Monitoring button
in the track header.
Click the Monitoring button again to turn off input monitoring for the track.
You should usually turn off monitoring when you’re not playing or singing. When monitoring is turned on, your computer can pick up output from your speakers or monitors, causing unwanted feedback. Using headphones rather than speakers to listen to your projects can help eliminate feedback.
If you select your computer’s built-in microphone as the audio input (in the Audio/MIDI pane of the GarageBand Settings), monitoring is turned off for all Electric Guitar tracks to avoid unwanted noise.