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 ...

Reader Glenn Henderson is interested in updating his old GarageBand tunes. He writes: I have some old GarageBand projects that include electric guitar parts I played with my MIDI keyboard using ...

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 ...

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 ...

MIDI Guitar for GarageBand is a Mac app (remember those?) that turns your guitar into a MIDI controller for, well, for any instrument you like. Thus you can thrash away on your axe like the heavy ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rock hair? Check. Leather pants? Check. Air guitar skills? Check. Move over Rover and let the music nerds at CNET.com.au show you how to set up a simple home recording environment with GarageBand.

So I wasn't all that interested in GarageBand at first - cool app, but I probably wouldn't use it.<BR>Except then I got around to checking out the MWSF footage, and was blown away by the amp ...

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 ...

These rubberized accessories promise to amp up the fun you can have playing music on your iPad -- but they're still no substitute for the real thing. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and ...