GarageBand User Guide
- Welcome
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- Play a lesson
- Choose the input source for your guitar
- Customize 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
- Practice 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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Mute tracks in GarageBand on Mac
You can silence, or mute, a track so that you don’t hear it when you play the project. Muting tracks is useful when you want to hear how the project sounds without the track, compare alternative versions of a track, or try different loops in a project.
Mute a track
In GarageBand on Mac, click the track’s Mute button
in the track header.
Mute multiple tracks
In GarageBand on Mac, click and hold a Mute button
, then drag the pointer up or down.
The Mute buttons of all swiped tracks switch to the same state.
Mute all tracks
In GarageBand on Mac, hold down Command while clicking the Mute button
in a track header.
All Mute buttons that match the state (muted or unmuted) of the clicked button also switch to its new state. For example, if you click an unmuted Mute button, all unmuted tracks are then muted.