Jam with Magic GarageBand on your Mac

Jam with your Mac using Magic GarageBand. Rock, Jazz, Country and other genres are available to help unleash the musician within you - whole songs laid-out by GarageBand to get your creative juices flowing.

On your Mac, launch GarageBand. (GarageBand comes with every Mac.) In the project window, click Magic GarageBand.

Choose a music genre.
Next, choose the genre of music you're in the mood to groove with. There are nine to choose from: Blues, Rock, Jazz, Country, Reggae, Funk, Latin, Roots Rock and Slow Blues.

Set the Stage.
Click the Audition button (or the Choose button). The stage will load and you'll see a virtual band, ready to play. You can connect an instrument to you Mac, or click "No Instrument". You can play along - "unplugged" - with a guitar or other instrument or sing along, instead.

Mix it up.
You can change the mix of instruments in two ways. Click on an instrument and then choose an alternate instrument (displayed just below the stage). Or, click on an empty part of the stage and then click the "Shuffle Instruments" button to randomly change all the instruments. Click the play button to hear the new mix.

If you'd like to edit the mix even more, you can click the "Open in GarageBand" button to open the song in Track View so that you can change, rearrange and add to the song anyway you'd like.