Sharing your GarageBand songs

To share a song, first go to My Songs in the upper-left. Now, instead of opening one of your songs, scroll to the one you want and tap the leftmost button at the bottom, which is the share button. If you tap Send to iTunes, you'll have the option of sending your song to iTunes either as an audio file in AAC format or as a GarageBand project file. Select the one you want and continue.

Now the next time you access iTunes, you should be able to find your song or project there. Tap the iPad icon on the left, then in the right pane, tap on Apps. Scroll down to GarageBand and you should see the files you've chosen to share listed in the right pane. Click the Save to button to save one of those files to your computer.

If you try to open your project files on GarageBand for the Mac, unfortunately it won't work. As of this writing, the file won't read properly but that is expected to change in an upcoming update. Instead, if you want to

share your project

with another iPad user you can share this file with them, have them add it to their computer and then drop it into GarageBand under apps.

Another way is to

share songs through email

. Find a song that you want to share and tap the share button, then Email Song. You'll see a default email message pop up that you can customize and add recipients to. If you have an Internet connection, you can even send your song right from here.