Pickup Music Avis 

I played as a kid, a little, but I put the guitar down for over 30 years. When I was ready to pick it back up, I wasn't sure where to begin. I researched a lot of sites, but I am happy I chose Pickup Music. It has been great!

Course for beginners is very easy to follow and you learn really quick!

Pitched really well for an intermediate. Definitely not beginner and not patronising. Some great technique work blended with music theory and genre introductions.

I would recommend taking this course. I’ve been playing 4 yrs or so. This was fantastic for me.

Pickup music is a fab grounding in the world of guitar - Hands on techniques, musical theory and performance. The format is interesting - For 1 week you approach a theme e.g. a mode a day and then you get a choice of performance pieces - Record one, submit it and get feedback. For questions, you can comment on a lesson if you have something you want to pick on, or you can wait until your performance submission and add a summary of how you did or what you'd like to have specific feedback on.

One of the really great things Pickup music does is offer really great performance pieces - Especially in the intermediate course with some super musical, catchy melodic vibes that really stretch you in terms of playing and then leave a space for you to improvise or compose something so if you really get in to the piece, you can add some theory and performance on and make it your own.

I think the site really suits intermediate players who want to touch on subjects they have not really understood or missed in earlier training or as a supplement to an in-person teacher - Doing some prep work before a lesson on say chords or scales to get some of explanation out there and then they can dive deeper in their actual lesson.

If I had a request of the site - It is really around the above - the teachers are really great presenters and I'd love to try and get a 1-2-1 session as part of the subscription and i think it would be totally worth the premium and complement the week-to-week recorded lessons with an examination of the principle or technique in the 1-2-1.

I'd certainly recommend it for a the annual cost, totally worth it - The performance pieces with Ariana are spellbinding - Really enjoyable just to 'play play' regardless of how much of theory you absorbed!

This app really needs to have a platform for left handed players. With everything else so far so good.

Great resources. I've played guitar for 20 years so this is mostly a refresher but there's some stuff I'm finding that I feel weak in. I have young kids and work full time so I love that the lessons are broken down and are quick to work through. I struggle with what to practice other than just the songs I like so this has given me great structure.

I am in third grade, so I don't have much experience about CAGED. I'm just still studying it.

Such a great program for learning guitar. Especially being self taught for years and just memorizing tabs this has helped me really unlock the guitar and understand it. The lessons are clear with great visuals to accompany the lesson and you can go at whatever pace you like. You can send in videos to be “graded” by teachers and they have guest lessons all the time of new material. I will be a member for life.

Well worth the time to complete, compliments the CAGED course well

The ease of learning.

It's like a lightbulb finally went on! For years, I was strumming away on my guitar, making music but without a true understanding of how everything connected. The CAGED system has been a game-changer. It's provided me with a clear roadmap of the fretboard, especially when it comes to understanding how chord shapes relate to each other and how to easily locate them in different positions. It's like I finally understand my guitar. This system has moved me from just playing to actually knowing what I'm doing. Highly recommend for anyone feeling lost on the fretboard!

Really good to help structue your learning so that you're not just playing random songs you like without context. I still sometimes start to learn some of my faves in-between, but pickup makes it super easy to jump back into learning fundamentals so that when i play the songs i like, i can notice that i'm better at things like switching chords, picing patterns etc.

The CAGED system pathway is very informative. It follows a very detailed approach to learning how it all works. I started the course with prior knowledge and Molly Miller helped with a few crucial aha moments.

I’ve learned so much over the past few months from where I was stuck for so many years. I went from not knowing what to focus on to having an arsenal of tools and knowing what direction I want to take my playing. Great instructors and lessons!

just finished the CAGEDI pathway. It took me longer than 6 weeks as some days are more challenging (and key) than others.I felt like it was worth investing more time on it. I spend a couple weeks only on some lessons at times where I felt more work was needed on my end. Overall I feel I have learned more in these weeks than in years of practice. Only critique are:

i) I feel it would be useful to give some "homework" for some of the key lessons. For example advising the students to play over tracks "x,y,z" to practice improvisation on chord changes. The advice though is still given if you ask a questio.

ii) Worth giving more lessons on some key topic such as improvisation on chord changes "outside" the scale

Anyway, See you in the CAGED 2 :)

Brilliant! Long story short i started with fender play and i am now using pickup music. Karl the tutor is very easy to follow and informative. I feel i have improved hugely while using this website.

I entered the program thanks to one of those adds that begin with "let me know if this sounds like you..." and proceeds to talk about the intermediate plateau. I felt immediately identified and decided to give it a shot. Just 2 weeks and, if I liked it, I could do a whole month.
In those 2 weeks I did maybe 7-8 exercises (which isn't much per-se), and one day I simply grabbed my guitar to play one song that I hadn't practiced in a long while (Weight of Dreams - Greta Van Fleet). I was expecting to be rusty, but I felt how my hand was positioning itself where it needed to be. Better yet, even when I didn't remember what went next, my hand started playing it on its own because it knew where to find the sounds.
After this I 100% decided to get an extra month and I'm regretting not having gone for a full year on the spot!

Pickup has been a great experience. Lots of lesson pathways, exercises, and resources. You can submit recordings for feedback, which is always extremely helpful and informative. My playing and understanding of the guitar has skyrocketed over the past few months.