How to Use GarageBand - Tutorial for Beginners

GarageBand is a fully equipped music creation studio.

GarageBand comes with every Mac and there is an app for it as well for iPhones and iPad.

In this video, I’ll show you 7 easy steps, on how to get started with GarageBand on your Mac for creating music or recording vocals and podcasts.

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1. Creating a project/project setup
When you first launch GarageBand, you’ll need to create a project.

Then, choose what type of project you want, from recording a guitar to recording vocals or drummer.

You can preview the track by pressing the space bar.
You can also change your drummer here and pick a different style from the library tab.

2. Adding tracks and loops

To add another track, you can press the plus sign and you can add a vocal track or another instrument track. If you don’t have a keyboard, you can also use the virtual keyboard in the GarageBand by using Command+k.

3. Recording Vocals or Voiceover

When adding a vocal track, make sure you have a microphone that is plugged into a sound mixer or directly to your computer.

4. Editing a track
You can edit any track by splitting the track and deleting the unwanted parts.

5. Movie tracks
You can also bring in movie tracks if you are composing a song to go along with a video or film.

6. Using effects and mixing
To mix your track, simply work with the audio levels on each track.

Each of your tracks also has a plugin or effects panel that you can bring up with Command+B.

7. Exporting and sharing
You can export your finished project using Wave or MP3 file formats. Simply go to the share menu and choose export to disk.

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[ikwikwi]

Most useful video on this 8 seen. Others just click around so fast u wonder if they teaching beginners or just thenselves

[Thatbluesman]

I'm new to GarageBand and I found this video a superb start point, the explanation was comprehensive, and concise and pitched at a good level. Much appreciated.

[greedygray]

Just got my first Mac Studio and I'm beyond impressed with the versatility of this software. Completely free as well.

[AndrewCharnley]

I heard a perfect speed of delivery, perfect voice pitch, as well as an excellent 'pitch' in the telling of the story for this learning video. You are good and deserve a compliment as you are a very comfortable tutor to sit with online and learn from...I had to pitch for a living to large audiences and provide software application training to major corporations and went on to train people for free...mostly experiencing the other end of life now...and that's good too...

[mimiiversen]

Thank you so much for making this very clear and simple tutorial. Ive been writing songs and wanting to make my own beats for a long time now but it looked intimidating but you made it very understandable.

[sherrynielsen]

This has been the best one I have watched as yet for teaching a beginner. Thank YOU!!!

[gregorymaerz]

Thank for posting. I'm totally new at this. I am a musician. I play six string electric, acoustic and bass guitars, and multi keyboards. I've been attempting to make hip hop beats the old way. no i'm not talking Pro Tools, I'm talking about four track recording. Please don't laugh, a person can afford what he or she can afford. A buddy of mine showed me this so hopfully I'm well on my way. Once again TY

[corysmith]

one of the best videos I found for beginners using this software

[kevchilton]

Great vid 👍🏻 Very useful, clear and concise. I picked up more from this tutorial than hours watching others. Thanks 👏🏻👏🏻

[Justakatto]

I was looking around for an easy daw to get into to no avail. Everything was just too complicated. And after seeing this i'm tempted to get an ipad just so I can use garageband. This is so intuitive!

[rebel]

You give me 17 mins and now i have 17 years of a new game i loviuuuu

[luna-xofr]

Very complete guide and actually helps you to understand how to use garage band. Thank you!!!

[melindaholland]

I'm new to GarageBand and this was super helpful and way better than another tutorial I watched. I actually learned how to use the different parts and buttons in GarageBand that didn't make sense before. Thanks for making the video!

[nicolas]

Great video really. Clear, good speed... rich enough to be informative, not complicated enough for a beginner. LOVE IT . THANK YOU. Remotivates me to start working on Garage band.

[letmetakeyouhere]

amazing tutorial opened garage band for the first time today and this is super helpful to get me started thank you

[peterhall]

Mate, great vid. Have looked at tons of Garage Band 'How to' vids and yours is the best. 👍

[josh_jitsu]

This is a beautifuk video, I had a dream of mine to start making and performing music, you came in clutch, September 7 @ 1:16 am I took the next step, you helped make a kids dream come true!

[deefromoakland]

Bro!! This video helped me so much!!! Created my first beat yesterday thanks to your tutorial. Much love and appreciation!!

[jr.rasentertainment]

Thanks so much I am new to Garage band. Watching all the way from Vanuatu

[richardjones]

Thanks for a clear overview. I used Garaeband years ago but now it is completely different.