GarageBand User Guide
- Welcome
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- Play a lesson
- Choose the input source for your guitar
- Customize the lesson window
- See how well you played a lesson
- Measure your progress over time
- Slow down a lesson
- Change the mix of a lesson
- View full-page music notation
- View glossary topics
- Practice guitar chords
- Tune your guitar in a lesson
- Open lessons in the GarageBand window
- Get additional Learn to Play lessons
- If your lesson doesn’t finish downloading
- Touch Bar shortcuts
- Glossary
- Copyright
Solo tracks in GarageBand on Mac
You can solo a track, silencing all tracks that are not also soloed. Soloing tracks is useful when you want to work on a track individually, or work on a few tracks, without hearing the other tracks in the project.
Solo a track
In GarageBand on Mac, click the track’s Solo button
in the track header.The Solo button turns yellow, and the Mute buttons of all unsoloed tracks flash blue. Click the button a second time to restore the track to its previous state.
Solo multiple tracks
In GarageBand on Mac, do one of the following:
Click and hold a Solo button
in a track header, then drag the pointer up or down.The Solo buttons of all swiped tracks switch to the same state.
Hold down Shift while the Solo button in the control bar is active, then click the names of the tracks you want to solo.
Make a track solo safe
You can make tracks solo safe. When you solo another track, the solo safe track no longer mutes.
In GarageBand on Mac, Control-click the Solo button
in a track header.Control-click the Solo button again to deactivate the track’s solo safe state.