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Free blank 6 string guitar tab with 11 staves or 9 staves

GarageBand Work-around: Write music in a time that is NOT 4/4, such as 3/4 or 6/8

I wanted to make some simple mp3s for my friends and myself to practice with between sessions, so I started learning GarageBand. I found a lot of great web tutorials (links here) on how to enter music into GarageBand, print the score, and out put the song as an mp3. I succeded with the first one, but hit a serious roadblock with the second one. All the loops were grayed out (unavailable). So once again I googled the problem, and found a hint. GarageBand only shows the loops it has available in the key signature and time you specify. Apparently GarageBand's default loops are only in 4/4 time! So I reset the project to C major and 4/4 time. All the loops showed up. I selected one in 4/4, changed the time and key, and went to work. The tutorials in the links are very detailed in how to do all this.

Great GarageBand Tutorials

Great article on the basics

This guy has a whole series of great videos.

Effects

Walkthrough on constructing loops

First GarageBand Project:

Reverie, by Catherine Henderson, arranged by Eleanor Henderson

Second GarageBand Project:

For Elizabeth, by Eleanor Henderson