Intro to Guitar Lessons

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Joey Biagas is an audio engineer with a degree in Audio Recording from California State University Dominguez Hills. He picked up his first guitar at age 16 and has been working on musical projects ever since. He wrote, produced and recorded two solo EPs under his band name Setting Sunrise. In his musical work, Joey believes in the power of artistic creations and strives to produce the best sounds possible.

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Introduction to Guitar

If you are a beginning guitar player, you can watch GarageBand's built-in Introduction to Guitar Lessons to learn some of the basics. 

Access the Lesson

In the GarageBand start window, select Learn to Play. The Intro to Guitar option is best for someone who doesn't have much experience playing guitar. 

Lesson Overview

The GarageBand lesson timeline is broken down into blocks of each specific subject. The subjects are: LearnAcoustic GuitarElectric GuitarHolding the GuitarTuningPicking and Strumming, and Strumming an E Chord

Tuner

You can access the built-in tuner at the top right corner of the window. This will tune your instrument without requiring you to plug in an external one. 






Mixer

Access the Mixer at the top right corner of the window next to the Tuner. This will allow you to adjust the settings for each input in GarageBand.