It’s a tradition that a true garage band must have at least one guitar (and more if you can rustle up enough outlets, amps, and kids who can nail a bar chord three out of five tries). Given that, it ...

Now that I’ve finished recording the basic guitar part for “The Barnyard Dance,” it’s time to add more instrumentation—and what better place to start than with the bass part? To keep it simple, I’ll ...

With the new, much more guitar-like Rock Band 3 controllers on the market, it's actually possible to configure them to create MIDI music in GarageBand on a Mac. Mac magazine Mac|Life shows us how. The ...

The iPad 2 has arrived and with the new hardware comes a collection of new apps including GarageBand for the iPad. The new GarageBand App is just $5 and will deliver a wide collection of instruments ...

Once you’ve laid down a solid rhythmic foundation with your drums and your bass, it’s time to sweeten things up with some different sounds, like guitar or keyboards. GarageBand for iPad makes this ...

Apple recently released version 1.1 of GarageBand for iOS, adding a few features and squashing a few bugs on the iPad version of its music creation software. Perhaps the biggest new feature, however, ...

Guitar maker Fender has partnered with Apple to create a new USB-equipped guitar in the form of the Squier Stratocaster, which has been designed to be used with Apple’s Garageband iOS software. The ...

I'd be buying a used guitar and learning. The idea is to lay out as little cash as possible just in case playing a real guitar isn't as fun as Guitar Hero II. I was thinking of using GarageBand in ...

Griffin Technology has announced a new cable made exclusively for connecting a guitar directly to the mini jack input of a Mac. This high quality magnetically shielded cable eliminates the need for ...

Beginning this Saturday, Apple and musical instrument retailer Guitar Center will begin a partnership to offer weekly workshops teaching customers how to use a Mac and the GarageBand application to ...

It may not be the first USB guitar, but this USB version of the Squire Stratocaster is the first one you’re going to find available from the Apple Store. A joint effort between Fender and Apple, this ...