Chuck B.
Working through the Blues Pathway
I'm in my second month with Pickup Music, and am in Grade 3 of the Blues Pathway. I've been working on blues for a year, on my own, and so the content thus far has been very familiar. Yet, the lessons -- video, text, tabs -- are interesting and informative. Of great benefit is how the platform provides the structured progression, the deliberate and dedicated practice, that haphazard books and YouTube videos have not. I can see, feel, and hear the improvement when I'm just improvising on my acoustic or jamming out to the blues shows I listen to. The performance pieces at the end of each grade are quite challenging and make me stretch to better play to the beat and produce the intended bass line or melody. I've known the importance of video recording my practices, but never did it. Now I do, and they're very illuminating. I appreciate the supportive and constructive feedback from the Pickup coaches. Thus far, I'm very pleased with all aspects of the Pickup Music platform. It's a terrific value in the range of content and the quality of the instruction and the instructors. It's been an enjoyable and effective way for me to learn and grow in my guitar studies and practice. Now...that finger style pathway looks really interesting!