GarageBand User Guide for iPad
Using the Guitar, you can play notes, chords, and strumming patterns. You can choose from acoustic or electric guitar sounds, and turn on stompbox effects to customize the sound.
Choose the sound of the Guitar
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- Tap the guitar icon in the upper-left corner, then tap the sound you want to play. You can also swipe left or right to change to the previous or next sound.
Play chords
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- Tap the Chords/Notes switch on the right to switch to Chords view.
- Do any of the following:
- Strum a chord: Swipe across the strings in one of the chord strips. You can also tap strings to play individual notes of a chord.
- Play the full chord: Tap the top of a chord strip.
- Mute the strings: Touch and hold the fretboard to the left or right of the chord strips as you play.
You can add your own custom chords to play.
Play a strumming pattern
- Turn the Autoplay knob to one of the numbered positions.
- Tap a chord strip. Tapping a different chord strip plays the same pattern with the notes of that chord, while tapping with two or three fingers plays variations of the pattern.
- Tap the chord strip again to stop the pattern playing.
Play individual notes
- Tap the Chords/Notes switch on the right to switch to Notes view.
- Tap the strings on the fretboard to play notes. You can also bend strings vertically to bend the pitch of a note up.
- To play notes of a particular scale, tap the Scale button, then tap the scale you want to play.The fretboard changes to show note bars. Tap the bars to play the notes of the scale.
Turn stompbox effects on or off
When you choose an electric guitar sound, stompbox effects appear above the Guitar fretboard. You can turn on the effects to change the sound.
- Tap the round On/Off button in the lower part of a stompbox. A red light indicates that the stompbox is on.
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Play the Retro Wah guitar with Face Control
If your iPad supports facial recognition, you can move the wah pedal on the Retro Wah guitar by moving your mouth while you play. When you record, any pedal movements you make with Face Control are also recorded.
- Tap the guitar icon in the upper-left corner, then tap Retro Wah.
- Hold your iPad 10–20 inches (25–50 cm) away from your face, then tap the Face Control button .The first time you use Face Control, GarageBand asks for permission to access the camera on your iPad.
- As you play, open and close your mouth to move the wah pedal up and down.
- To turn Face Control off, tap the Face Control button again.
Note: GarageBand uses ARKit face tracking features to translate your facial expressions into instrument effect controls. Your face information is processed on device, and only music is captured during your performance.
When using Extreme Tuning, set the key of your song in GarageBand before applying the effect for best results. You can then additional effects like echo or reverb.
Set the key and scale of the song
Extreme Tuning uses your song's key and scale settings to apply the effect. If the actual key or scale of your song differs from the key or scale setting, the effect might be less pronounced, or might change the pitch of individual notes in the track in undesirable ways.
GarageBand songs defaults to the key of C.
- On iPhone and iPod Touch, tap Settings in the control bar, and then tap Song. On iPad, iPhone 6 Plus, and iPhone 7 Plus, tap Song Settings in the control bar.
- Tap Key.
- Tap the key for your song.
- Tap the scale for your song (major or minor).
Access the Extreme Tuning setting
Extreme Tuning is optimized for male and female voices, but you can apply it as a creative effect to any mono audio track, like a bass guitar or other live instrument.
To access the Extreme Tuning setting:
- In Tracks view, tap the audio region in an audio track to select it.
- Tap Microphone on the toolbar to open the Audio Recorder settings.
- On iPhone or iPod touch, tap Navigation , tap the current Audio Recorder setting (such as Clean), tap Fun, then tap Extreme Tuning.
On iPad, iPhone 6 Plus, and iPhone 7 Plus, tap Fun, then tap the Extreme Tuning icon. - Adjust Pitch Control and Distortion to fine tune the sound.
Add additional effects
To add additional effects like Reverb or Echo:
- On iPhone and iPod Touch, tap Settings , then tap Track Controls . On iPad, iPhone 6 Plus, and iPhone 7 Plus, tap Track Controls .
- Under Master Effects, adjust the Echo and Reverb sliders, or tap Master Effects to change the Echo and Reverb presets.