Giantgol

Make music with Touch Instruments

Use Touch Instruments to play keyboards, drums, guitars, strings, and more. Record your own vocals or plug in your guitar or bass, and play through a great selection of amps and stompbox effects.

Build your song

Choose from hundreds of Apple Loops to add to your song, add a drummer that plays along to the music you recorded, and mix your song with effect plug-ins.

Step 1: A ‘Smart’ Beat GarageBand on the iPad is capable of producing eight simultaneous tracks of audio (or instruments). These eight tracks can be made up of various sound sources, you can record your own audio via the microphone or audio input, you can use built in Apple loops or your own samples and you can also use any of GarageBand’s excellent built in instruments. Your music deserves to be heard — everywhere. With GarageBand, you can easily share your tracks via email or directly to Facebook, YouTube, and SoundCloud. 3 You can even wirelessly share with someone near you using AirDrop. Or save them as custom ringtones so whenever somebody calls, your song rocks. Make and record music in your iPhone with GarageBand. GarageBand is Apple's all in one and versatile app that allows you to bring anywhere a recording studio for you to create music with. This app features a wide variety of touch enabled musical instruments, various amps, various stompbox kits, music sharing on Facebook, YouTube and SoundCloud, export to iTunes and more.

Create music like a DJ

Use Live Loops to create electronic music by simply tapping cells and columns in the grid to trigger musical loops. You can build your own arrangements, then improvise and record a Live Loops performance.

Download free loops and instruments

Use the Sound Library to download and manage sound packs containing hundreds of loops, sounds, Touch Instruments, drum kits, and more. GarageBand lets you know when new sound packs are available to download.

To browse the GarageBand User Guide for iPad, click Table of Contents at the top of the page.

Learn what’s new in GarageBand for iOS

Get free sound packs from the Sound Library, build grooves with the Beat Sequencer, share and store songs and audio files with the Files app, and more.

Featured topics

Use Drummer Loops in GarageBand for Mac

7 Inch Ipad

Quickly add drums to your song using Drummer Loops, a type of Apple Loop that you can customize to fit your song.

Garageband On Ipad

Work with percussionists in GarageBand for Mac

Use Drummer to add dynamic percussion parts to your song, available in three percussion styles—Latin, Pop, or Songwriter.

If you can't record audio after a macOS Mojave update

After installing macOS Mojave on your Mac, you might not be able to record audio in Logic Pro X, MainStage, GarageBand, Final Cut Pro X, or third-party audio and video apps.

About GarageBand 6.0.5 compatibility in macOS

Learn about changes coming to macOS and how to update to GarageBand 10 for macOS.

Learn more

Have a question? Ask everyone.

Ipad Mini

The members of our Apple Support Community can help answer your question. Or, if someone’s already asked, you can search for the best answer.

Tell us how we can help

Garageband 2. 3. 7 Ipad Tutorial For Beginners

Answer a few questions and we'll help you find a solution.

Garageband Tutorial For Mac