Pickup Music gives you the world's best online music lessons. Get better at guitar, piano and bass with highly structured online lessons and expert feedback on your playing from pro instructors.
Pickup Music (pickupmusic.com) has 736 customer reviews on Five Star Index, with an average rating of 4.9 out of 5.
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pickupmusic.com
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Los Angeles, California
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2026
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I'm really enjoying the CAGED pathway. I've been playing the guitar for over 25 years but really hadn't picked it up in a while and struggled to find the motivation to practice.
I'm the sort of person who really needs to understand the how and why of what I'm learning, and am loving how easy I'm finding it to commit time to pickup music's course. I'm looking forward to doing more courses and maybe finally becoming a halfway decent musician.
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Marvin B.
The lessons our very informative and…
The lessons our very informative and digestible I've seen progress in my skillset but also gain a ton of knowledge of the history or neo soul guitar.
JW
Jennifer W.
Fun, challenging but still accessible
The lessons are super accessible and fun - I learn just the right information to both feel challenged and like I can weave each new skill into my repertoire. And as someone who can't afford regular one-on-one music lessons, the low monthly cost makes a huge difference.
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Why would I Display my N.
If you are looking for guitar lessons, look no further!
If you are looking for a guitar learning program, simply look no further.
I started to play guitar around 7 years ago but over the years I made very slow progress. Sometimes I'd follow youtube tutorials for a while and then lose interest because of the format and passive learning experience. I had signed up countless guitar learning lessons over the years as well, some even resulted in my personal information leaks. Even till now, I still receive random emails from programs that I have signed up and long forgotten.
For me, I really lack motivation and I constantly excuse my lack of substantial progress for not having found the right program. Usually I'd sign up for a new program, follow their lessons for the first few days, and give up when it becomes challenging or boring. However, this all changed since I found out about Pickup Music. Literally.
At first I found out about it because I saw my guitarist friend followed their account on instagram, and at the time I wanted to find a good jazz program to follow. I saw that they had a 14 days free trial and as someone who's always reluctant to pay for guitar lessons when there are so many free ones out there, I decided to give it a try and cancel my membership before the 14th day. However, after about a week of following my selected program (intermediate beginner or late beginner), I for the first time felt motivated and encouraged enough to actually want to practice guitar every single day! I even gave up gaming completely because I enjoyed the lessons and guitar practicing so much!
I love Pickup Music so much since everyone is so encouraging and responsive. They offered orientations just to familiarize you with all the contents that they offer. There are also weekly free live lessons with different musicians. I also love the part where I could upload my performance for feedback!!
I just really really hope they can keep this up because what their team is doing is magical. For learners like me, I for the first time in my life develop the habit to practice guitar every single day and I only wish I would have found out about this sooner!!
JL
Julian L.
Best Online Learning Experience
I'm currently on week 3 of the CAGED pathway with Pickup Music, and for the first time, I don't feel lost in my guitar learning journey. I've tried many online courses before, but I always felt unsure about what to do next. Pickup Music provides a clear learning path, with high-quality lessons and practical exercises, including backing tracks to apply what I've learned.
Each step of the course has been thoughtfully crafted to keep me motivated and engaged. The one-on-one video feedback at the end of every week is incredibly motivating and helps me stay on track with completing the exercises. The staff and teachers are very friendly and respond quickly to my questions.
There's always new content and live online lessons with experts, which adds to the dynamic and supportive learning environment. This has been, hands down, the best e-learning experience I've had.
Pickup Music is more than just a simple guitar tutorial site; it's an entire learning platform from which many educators could learn a lot. I highly recommend it to anyone looking to learn guitar with a structured and engaging approach.
MP
Mark P.
CAGED learning pathway. Effortless learning.
The CAGED learning pathway is a well structured approach to learning the fretboard.
The daily lessons with play along exercises are the easiest learning method I have experienced. No more guessing or trying to develop your own practice schedule, simply log in and follow along.
Each day builds logically on the last day so that learning occurs naturally with little effort.
Just show up each day and enjoy the progress.
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Gianluca
Great a closing gap in my playing!!!
This course was really helpful in fiiling the gaps that i had as self-taught guitar player while introducing me to a lot of stuff that i haven´t considered yet.
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Rdlnm
I am glad I joined Pickup Music
From all online-guitar-courses I´ve joined the last years (also several popular), this is the first I constantly have fun with! The teachers from Pickup Music offers you a great mix of teaching guitar skills seriously and sympathicly at the same time. The concept of learning paths is not new but here it is really conclusive. Each Learning Path has six grades and each grade has seven Lessons. There are different songs to choose, learn and video-upload for feedback at the end of each grade, this is the most fun part to me and helps alot! Also the commuication is great. Comments and questions are replyed in short time and they send you different practice ideas regularly. There are live sessions you can join. And you can win guitars from time to time. To me, this is a special motivation I've seen nowhere else before. In my personal opinion, there are many good reasons to try Pickup Music. And even if you dislike the offers here, there is a money-back option. Give it a try and find out why it is such a fun experience here 😀