Pickup MusicReviews of pickupmusic.com

I really love that there are guided pathways based on my skill level. The music/backing tracks are good and the teachers are friendly and very encouraging! Carl is great! I love that every day I’m learning something AND playing something new. I’m confident I’ll be able to get out of the Campfire Chord Purgatory I find myself in by going through all the pathways and learning about the CAGED system.

Love the structure. Charts are great. Good instruction. The performance review was helpful. I feel like I'm building and connecting knowledge rather than learning piecemeal. One potential frustration. Not sure why intermediate pathway doesn't begin with 3NPS. I'm having to relearn fingering of scales which is a bit frustrating. I'm hoping that will clear up as I move along.

The pace of the courses is well designed. Though sometimes seems to be starting at a very easy level, there is always something to be learned. Regular encouragement to jam out an idea along with a video or at the end of a lesson really helps cement the ideas.

Learned much more on this pathway than I expected! A few weeks ago, I thought I would never be able to play bar chords. That has now changed. Karl did a great job of explaining how to hold my hand and position my fingers - extremely helpful! Highly recommended for beginners!

It’s my preferred online guitar lessons, and I’ve tried several. So far I have really appreciated the layout and late intermediate course. Each lesson is laid out clear and systematically. Each lesson has several exercises which is great. I wish I could adjust the tempo of tracks to match my skills. Using video speed isn’t the same.

I tried at least 3 online courses + 2 books and almost every youtubers video about CAGED System and Pickupmusic is so far my best experience in learning. I'm not saying the other ones are wrong: I'm saying this is the best one fitting for me. It's visual, it's step by step, it's deep enough to be exhaustive. Teachers encourage to follow any steps but you can of course feel free to arrange it on your needs. If you put enough time and effort in it you wouldn't be disappointed. For what I know, there isn't a unique path to learn music and guitar playing: the more point of view you have the better it is. FOR SURE this is the best one to start from. Enjoy!

I am a late beginner/early intermediate guitar player and can't imagine a better approach to learning than Pickup Music. A clear focus of their approach is to make sure you understand where you are headed and how that connects with what you've already done as well as what you are doing in your current lesson. Complementing that, they are highly skilled in reducing lessons to small bite size pieces which really helps with making the student feel that they are successful and progressing every day. Perhaps there are other programs that are just as good, I don't know, but I cannot imagine any other program out there is better, and if you factor in affordability, I just can't imagine Pickup Music can be beat.

No matter what other apps or sites or videos I might sign up for, I always end up coming back to Pickup Music. The video quality and content surpasses everything else I've tried and the team is completely committed to building and supporting the community of players. There are very few things that I keep as recurring subscriptions anymore and Pickup Music is in that select group.