Intermediate GarageBand lessons
You know your way around a project. Now it's time to edit like you mean it: MIDI, Flex Time, effects, and real arrangements.
Mastering the Piano Roll Editor
Zoom into individual MIDI notes and edit pitch, timing, length, and velocity directly: the tool that turns a rough take into an exact performance.
Editing MIDI: Quantizing, Velocity, and Transposition
Automatic tools for tightening timing, balancing dynamics, and shifting pitch across a whole MIDI performance at once.
Smart Controls and Shaping Your Instrument Sound
Go beyond picking a preset: use Smart Controls to actually shape the tone, character, and movement of every instrument in your project.
Flex Time and Pitch Correction: Fixing Timing and Tuning
Nudge timing without changing pitch using Flex Time, and tune a vocal or instrument take with GarageBand's Pitch Correction slider, without re-recording anything.
Effects Basics: Reverb, Delay, and Compression
The three effects that do the most work in a mix: what each one actually does, and how to add them without overusing them.
Introduction to Automation
Record changes to volume, panning, and effects over time, so your mix evolves through a song instead of staying frozen at one setting.
Arranging a Song with Sections and Markers
Use arrangement markers to label verses, choruses, and bridges, then rearrange, duplicate, and reorder whole sections at once.
Vocal Production Basics: Comping and Tuning
Record multiple takes, combine the best sections into one final performance, and apply light, natural-sounding pitch correction.
Ready to keep going?
Mixing, mastering, and squeezing every drop out of GarageBand.