What do I need to play my guitar into garageband?

Just got my macbook pro and I play guitar and I found out that this neat app garage band is on here, but I don't know what exactly do I need to connect it to the mac book. Is it best to use and audio interface and if so which one? and will any audio interface work with it?

qaarmstrong wrote:
I don't know what exactly do I need to connect it to the mac book.
Connect the guitar to an audio interface and connect the audio interface to the MBP. The electric guitar signal is not suitable for connecting directly to the MBP's audio in.
A fairly simple interface is this
<http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/FastTrack.html>
It is just an example, I do not recommend any particular brand or model. The best one is the one that does what you need at the price you can afford.

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I plug my guitar in to the audio output (headphones) jack. I then go into system settings and chagne the jack to be an input instead of an output.
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