This book emphasizes hands-on training. Each exercise is designed to help you learn the application inside and out, starting with the basic interface and moving on to advanced music editing, arranging, and mixing techniques. The book assumes a basic level of familiarity with the Apple OS X operating system. If you are new to GarageBand, it would be helpful for you to start at the beginning and progress through each lesson in order, since each lesson builds on information learned in previous ones. If you are already familiar with GarageBand, you can start with any section and focus on that topic.
Each of the nine lessons in this book focuses on a different aspect of creating music with GarageBand 2. Each lesson expands on the basic concepts of the program, giving you the tools to use GarageBand for your own projects.
The lessons in this book are informally divided into four groups or sections:
Lessons 12: Learning the interface and working in the Timeline
Lessons 35: Using the different types of GarageBand musical regions, including Software Instruments, Real Instruments, and Apple Loops
Lessons 68: Arranging, mixing, and exporting a finished song
Lesson 9Appendix: Advanced GarageBand tips and techniques and the Jam Packs