Apple Training Series: GarageBand 3

What are three ways that you can launch Garageband?

How can you move or resize the GarageBand window?

Where in the interface can you see the current playhead position?

Which keys on the computer keyboard are shortcuts to move the playhead one measure at a time?

What are the four different colored musical regions in the Timeline?

Where can you find and preview the over 1,000 audio files that come with GarageBand?

What is the difference between Software Instrument regions and Real Instrument regions?

Double-click the application icon in the Finder, click once on the Garage-Band icon in the Dock, or double-click any GarageBand song file.

To move the GarageBand window, click and drag any edge of the window. To resize the window, drag the resize control in the lower-right corner of the window.

You can see the playhead position in the time display or the Beat Ruler.

You can move the playhead one measure at a time left or right with the left and right arrow keys.

The four different colored regions are: purple Real Instrument recordings, blue Real Instrument Apple Loops, green Software Instrument recordings and Apple Loops, and orange imported Real instrument regions.

You can find and preview the different loops in the Loop Browser.

Software Instrument regions include MIDI information, and each note can be edited or modified. Real Instrument regions are digital recordings of audio waveforms, and the individual notes cannot be edited.