Playing live with garageband

I want to make an arrangement on garageband and have it follow my tempo when I play. I'm a music teacher. I want my accompaniments to be fuller by including a garageband arrangement. But, I'm still playing my guitar or keyboard live. My students may rush or drag, etc. Will garageband follow me when I have to adjust my playing live?

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If you want to stick with GB you could make your arrangements and by using the tempo slider start everybody off at a much slower tempo, then you could nudge it up a few BPM every time you go through the piece.

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