GarageBand iPad/iPhone Tutorial for Beginners

GarageBand iPad/iPhone Tutorial for Beginners

From finding your way around the Sound Browser, to using Touch Instruments and recording audio, in THIS video I share 5 tips to help you get started in GarageBand on iPad and iPhone.

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00:00 GarageBand for Beginners
00:19 Sound Browser
01:37 Touch Instruments in GarageBand
04:28 Recording Touch Instruments in GarageBand
05:31 Recording Audio in GarageBand
07:00 Using Loops in GarageBand

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VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

From finding your way around this sound browser to using touch instruments
and recording audio - in this GarageBand Tutorial for Beginners video i'm sharing
five tips to help you get started with GarageBand on iPad and iPhone.

The first time you open GarageBand for iOS or start a new project you'll be taken to the sound
browser. This is where you can choose a touch instrument to play, add more sounds or record
an external instrument through your iDevice's built-in microphone or via an audio interface.
You can also switch between the tracks and live loops view here.

Swipe left or right to view the different instruments available then tap on the one you want to play the options in the lower parts of these cards take you directly to chord strips notes view or scales
on touch instruments, gives you different rhythm input options on drum and drummer cards,
allows you to jump straight into certain presets on amp and audio recorder cards and allows
you to select from different third-party instrument options on the external card.

It's worth noting that you can't access the tracks view at all until you've added at least one track.

Each touch instrument has a play area and a controls area.

The play area is where you can play melodies chords and sounds by touching the touch instrument keys strings or other playable elements. You can change the sound of the instrument
by using the knobs buttons and other controls in the controls area. Here's a closer look at
garageband's guitar touch instrument. Using the touch guitar you can play notes chords
and strumming patterns you can choose from acoustic or electric guitar sounds and add stompbox effects.

To customize its sounds further tap the guitar icon and select the sound that you want to play
tap the chord slash note switch to change to the chords view you can strum a chord by swiping across the strings in one of the strips you can tap on the top of the chord strip to play a full chord
and you can mute the strings by touching and holding the fretboard
to the left or right of the chord strips as you play.

There's also an auto play function you use this by turning the autoplay knob to one of
four positions and then tapping a chord strip this will play a pattern with the notes of that chord
the auto play pattern will change slightly depending on whether you tap with one two or
three fingers meaning there are up to 12 different auto play variations for each touch instrument.

[Funkotronimus]

Despite how simple garage band is, I feel this video is a well-needed addition to its existence—thanks!

[iremon]

The picture-in-picture of your fingers on the pad is a really nice addition. Make that permanent.

[nohrtillman]

Of all the many years of using and endorsing Apple products and apps, GarageBand is by far the least intuitive of all time.
It helps tremendously to see someone actually use it to even begin to understand the buttons, layers, and what isn’t available without preliminary work. Thanks for this!

[pilotwolf]

thanks so much! lots of info about GB for mac computer but this is the first i have found for an iPad which is totally different. Please keep it coming!

[BuddyBearCreator]

Very specific and terrific video. thanks Apple should officially endorse this video mate ! My channel is ALL about music for preschool kids and now maybe I can start making my own music instead of hiring out. I do love collaborating with other songwriters and composers.

[robertmalone]

Wow Patrick mate your channel is so simple to follow and understand. Absolutely brilliant mate 😊🎵👍❤️

[JasonScottFirthMusic-oxpw]

Hi Firstly may I thank you for all your great content and videos. I’ve watched quite a few of them over the last month or so. Whilst I’ve been recovering from a double hernia operation. I used to play in a band and guitar and do a lot of recording many years ago but haven’t done so for probably the last nine or 10 years Recently recovering and getting back into playing been inspired to get back into doing some music writing and recording and found your videos about GarageBand and the relevant accessories that can go with an iPad very useful. I’ve started my new YouTube channel to document my journey from a young age, playing guitar in a band and writing music. I’m going to review some of the products that I’ve purchased from recommendations in some of your videos and if you’re happy I’d like to put a shout out to your channel to the viewers because I found it very helpful and very useful. If you’re happy with that let me know. Thank you Jason😃👍🏻🎸

[McRaeVibes]

I need this guy’s voice as my alarm in the morning 😂😂❤❤

[houseoflatin]

nice walkthrough, i like GB but it can be confusing, maybe its simply that there is so much features not visible like in a daw.

[djba]

Hi and thanks for a very helpful video. I am currently using MainStage for live performance. I would like to move to an ipad but, since they don’t make MainStage for ios, I thought I might be able to use GarageBand. I have come across what is probably a deal killer. Can you confirm that you can’t control GarageBand with a midi controller? Thanks again.

[v.oeynhausen]

Well done. That’s a great starting point, I think.

[iremon]

How about a tutorial on outputs for us newbs. Multiple headphones, corded vs. Bluetooth phones, built-in output vs the jack on your audio interface, plugging into a stereo, etc.
Also, thanks for teaching me the proper way to pronounce 'garage'. 😁

[Fedi_._]

Super helpful video! Question: I can’t find where to change the BPM or tempo on my iPhone GarageBand app. Where do I find Thor option? Thanks!

[Elwaves]

Nice video. If you don't mind, I have a newbie question. The audio recorder has a clean preset that can be used with Tonebridge. Is there a version of that preset that I can use with an imported midi file and Tonebridge? As in, as an instrument as I don't have a real guitar.
The instruments I've tried (even cleaner, effect free ones) all tend to distort the Tonebridge sound. Is this even possible to do?

[gaih.b]

Hi Hello. Thank you for these videos, it helps me a lot! One thing that i don't understand is that it seems that it's impossible to record effects control on real time. When we record a instrument with effects or pedalbord, it always stays at same level of control. We can't touche the effects in same time as we recording. Is there any technic to record the sound effect control in realtime? Thank you!

[MajorHazzard]

I'd like to thank you. I'm new to iOS coming from a pc. I bought an iPad 10th gen and had a presonus audio box i2 .The expensive camera adapter (Which I found out later I didn't need) .It seems that MY presonus was ether faulty or old (it was one of the original early itwo boxes) After watching another of your videos I bought the mini fuse2 . works perfectly, so, it MAY be that ALL the EARLY ORIGINAL audiobox I two models might be the same. I mention this in case some new subscribers might be looking around for hardware and be tempted to buy a old used Audiobox I two, just to say it might NOT work.

[TheMrk]

Hi does Garbage has any kind of guided play? Something like a tutorial where it tells me to tap exactly and I do that ?

[relightthespiral]

Do you happen to have a tutorial video for recording guitar with an Irig Hd and an ipad for GarageBand?

[paulgeorge]

what is difference, between strumming pattern and autoplay?

[Marekuke]

I need some help, every time i record and put it in the beat thing, it shows up as a square and not a full on track. I dont know how to fix this