Why are my header tracks double the normal height?

I'm running the most recent Garageband (10.0.3) on MacBook Pro 2012 with Mavericks. All OSX and app software updates are installed. System is running fine...
Somehow when working in Garageband last night, the height of my tracks became double the height as they normally are. I have no idea how or why this happened. This now being the case, far fewer tracks can fit on my screen when working and it's quite annoying.
I've tried some fixes that I found in these forums about deleting the display preferences files for individual songs, turning automation on and off, opening and closing Smart Controls, etc and nothing has worked yet. Many others seem to have experienced this same problem suddenly showing up.
The only thing that I did different last night that I've never done before is work with an external monitor. Garageband was open on the MacBook screen, and I was taking notes in an app on the external monitor. Other than that, I was doing things as normal.
Has anyone found a definitive solution to this to get the tracks back to normal height? Would re-installing Garageband from the App Store be a possible solution?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
John

Thanks for the reply leonie. You're absolutely right. How embarrassing that I didn't see that in the new version of GB! I had not added enough tracks to my new song at that point to see them start to shrink on their own.

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