Stubborn GarageBand

I'm no professional musician but I do appreciate GarageBand; that is if goofing around with Musical Typing is considered a form of appreciation for this app. So one day, I decided I wanted to goof around, this time with the MacBook Mini (I've the MacBook Wind connected permanently to a View Sonic LCD which setup I use often when at home). I launch GarageBand and after selecting New Project just to get started, the moment of slight bewilderment strikes:

Where are the controls at the bottom of the window?

As I've said earlier, I'm no musician who's enthusiastic enough to actually mix loops and consequently find the need for the aforementioned controls. However, I definitely couldn't deny that I see them when using the Wind that's connected to an LCD. So I click on the green + button which I always did with iLife apps back to '08 and what-not to make them fit in the screen when the windows are cut off at the bottom because of the netbooks shorter vertical real estate which, granted, is less than standard 768 pixels.

But now, nothing happens when I do that.

GarageBand stubbornly sticks to its default dimensions. There's nothing I could do to fit this whole chop on the 1024 x 600 screen.