Appendix C. GarageBand 2 Keyboard Shortcuts

The mouse is for suckers. When there’s no time to lose, efficiency fanatics don’t waste calories lumbering up to those menus. They memorize the keyboard shortcuts instead—at least for the commands they use a lot.

Navigating GarageBand

Table C-1. 

Function

Keystroke

Play/Pause

Space bar

Jump to start

Home or Z

Jump to end

End or Option-Z

Jump back one measure

Left arrow

Skip forward one measure

Right arrow

Jump back one screenful

Page up

Skip forward one screenful

Page down

Zoom in

Control-Left arrow

Zoom out

Control-Right arrow

Manipulating Tracks

Table C-2. 

New track

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-Option-N

New basic Real track

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-Shift-N

Duplicate track

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-D

Delete selected track

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-Delete

Select previous/next track

Up arrow/Down arrow

Mute/unmute selected track

M

Solo/unsolo selected track

S

Show/hide track-volume track

A

Show/hide master track

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-B

Show/hide Track Info dialog box

-I

Recording

Table C-3. 

Start/stop recording

R

Cycling on/off ...

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