How to use Garageband Tools
by:  Beth Fairbanks
Arizona State University- West
Educational Technology
Step One  |  Step Two  |  Step Three  |  Step Four  |  Step Five | Step Six  |  Step Seven  | Step Eight  |  Step Nine  | Step Ten  | Step Eleven  | Step Twelve  | Step Thirteen  |  Step Fourteen
Step One- Locate GarageBand on the Desktop.
Step Two- Decide what type of project you are creating
Step Three-  Save and name your project


It might be a great idea to save your project to your desktop or your flash drive.
Step Four- GarageBand will open and look like this- The Grand Piano opens up right away, if this is not a tool you need just close out of the little piano.
Step five- The next step allows you to import music from GarageBand.
Step Six-  Tracks in GarageBand- if you want more than one track of music, go to track- New track to create an additional track of music

New Track

Step Seven: To create a track with your own music or vocals - Click on Real Instrument. 

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Step Eight:  The + sign is another way to add a new track, the red button is record, play and volume are also in the bottom tool bar.
Step Nine:   Drag and drop the music that you want to play, if you want more than one type of music just remember to have a new track.

Step Ten:  You may make your music longer or shorter by dragging on the music clip
Step Eleven:  To shorten your music, use the playhead to find the stopping point of your music.

Step Twelve:  You may split your music and make it shorter, by spliting at the playhead.
Step Thirteen:  You highlight the music that has been split and delete.

Step Fourteen:  The last step to complete your project is to share your music to iTunes.  Sharing your project to iTunes allows you to import into iMovie.
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