Mixing Your Tracks in Garage Band

"Hey everybody, my name is Matt and I am speaking to you on behalf of Expert Village. I have kind of thrown together a song here real quick. It has five tracks on it. I am going to teach you a little bit more about the different controls you have over each track. First if you want to turn on the cycling button here at the bottom, it looks like two arrows in a circular pattern. You will see a yellow bar here at the top and the songs are going to cycle around wherever you see the yellow bar. You can move this around if you want but I am going to leave it where it is for now and if I go ahead and play the song I can kind of hear what it sounds like. I am going to go up here and click on the drums and over here to the right, you will see a pan dial which you can use to pan and track left and right. You will also see a slider which can move left and right to control the volume of each individual track and you can do all this in real times. I am going to go ahead and play it and mix together the tracks a little. As you can see like I said, you can edit the volume and the pan of each individual track in real time. I am over here to the left you will see on the track the arm button which you should be familiar with by now. To the right of that you will see the mute button which you can use to mute and unmute each individual track. You can also do these in real time while the song is playing like I said. You will also see to the right of that a set of headphones; that's the solo button. If you click that, you will only hear the track or tracks that you have soloed. That is kind of the opposite of mute. To the right of that you will see a little lock that you can lock and unlock tracks so that you won't accidentally edit track. To the right of that if you click the little down arrow, you can edit the curve of a panning and the volume of a track you can switch between those by clicking here and selecting track, pan or track volume. Leave it on volume right now. If you go over here, like I said you can edit the curve and what this is going to do while the song plays, the volume is going to go up and down. I'll show you how that works. If you notice the volume of the drums while it plays, if you noticed that the drums faded in and out and like I said you can also edit panning with this just as well."