Problem Exporting Garageband songs from an iPad to an iMac

To Whom It May Concern:
I cannot get songs from Garageband on my iPad2 to load on Garageband for my iMac. My iPad and iMac are both up-to-date. When I first attempted to open the transported (.band) file, it said that I needed to update Garageband...but now it will not actually complete the download or update. If I try to open a transported file now, it just claims that the download cannot be completed. When I try to update Garageband manually, it claims to be up-to-date. The whole reason I bought an iPad was to work on music away from home, but so that I would be able to transfer the music files to my iMac. This is obviously not working. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you in advance!

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I was able to get this to work for deleting single song, but it simply ignored me when I tried to delete whole albums or artists. As there are many thousands of Christmas tracks, deleting one by one was not an option.
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