Previewing the Finished Song

Let's take a sneak preview of the finished song, so that you'll have an idea what you're going to build. I've called this song SpaceBass, because the inspiration came from the combination of several strong bass loops with a spacey keyboard part. This is the sort of thing I would score for the intro music to a cool podcast show.

1.	Choose File > Open to open an existing song file.
2.	Select GarageBand 3 Lessons > Lesson_04 > 4-4 SpaceBass final.
3.	Double-click 4-4 SpaceBass final to open the song. The song opens in the GarageBand window.
4.	Press the Home key to move the playhead to the beginning of the song. Before you play the song, it's a good idea to turn off the metronome if it is on. You've successfully worked with the metronome turned on while recording and have probably noticed that it is still on during playback. That might get a little annoying after a while. You have two choices to turn off the metronome during playback. You could go back to the General Preferences window and change the metronome settings to "During recording" only. Or you can go to the Control menu and toggle off the metronome. The shortcut to toggle the metronome on and off is Cmd-U.
5.	Choose Control > Metronome, or press Cmd-U, to turn off the metronome if it is turned on.
6.	Play the project.

There you have it. Let's get started.