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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
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Lock tracks in GarageBand on Mac
You can lock a track to prevent accidental changes. While a track is locked, you can’t record on it, or edit or create new regions. To edit the track, unlock it, make your changes, then lock it again.
Lock a track
In GarageBand on Mac, click the Lock button
in the track header.
If the Lock button isn’t visible in the track header, choose Track > Track Header > Show Lock Button.
The lock turns green to indicate the track is locked.
To unprotect the track, click the Lock button
again.
Lock multiple tracks
In GarageBand on Mac, click and hold a Lock button
, then drag the pointer up or down.
The Lock buttons of all swiped tracks switch to the same state.
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