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The Beginner Pathway series of lessons on the Pickup Music website is great for people with little to no skills in playing the guitar. The instructor (I forget his name) recorded a lesson that builds skills while not hurrying. I think it's great that they include the jam track with each lesson so that you can practice, practice, practice. Money will spent.

Very good course. Very thorough and easy to follow. It really unlocked the fretboard for me. I struggled for years.

I'm really enjoying learning with Pickup Music so far and it's working very well for me as a platform to grow my skills as a guitarist and keep me inspired. Especially the personal feedback is great. So far I completed the CAGED I Pathway, wich was extremely well build, super helpful and very fun. I am currently going through the Jazz Pathway with Cecil and this one is definitely more demanding. At some point the progression feels a bit abrup, so you really have to take things a bit slower. But the great thing is, you can always go back and review stuff from earlier exercises. All in all great platform, I would definetely recommend

I have spent a lifetime playing around on the guitar. I have always known how to play a couple dozen songs and known a few scales. I finally decided that I really wanted to learn how to play for real. So far, Pickup Music has been amazing. I started at the very beginning to make sure I didn't miss anything. I am just finishing the 6th grade of "Beginner" and I'm already able to randomly string together cords at will that sound amazing. I can't wait to continue this journey. I set aside 30 to 40 minutes a day to take lessons and practice. Very satisfying and a great way to learn!

I am an older learner and I wasn't sure at first whether to join Pickup Music, as I have previously used other well known online companies and found that I struggled with the structure of their lessons and the speed they moved forward. This made learning a chore and so I quickly gave up.
However, the learning paths on Pickup Music are very clear and structured and a lot of fun. After every lesson I feel I have learnt something new and love the experience of playing along with the tutor videos and the band at the end of each section.
I really enjoy the free weekly master classes as I find them interesting and informative, even though some are currently above my level.
There is plenty of resources on the site for learning for all levels and I am enjoying my journey with this new hobby. I haven't done any challenges as yet but they are available if it is something you like to participate in.
To sum it up I am having a wonderful experience as a new learner.

Pickup music is an excellent resource for learning guitar. I initially saw a snippet of the CAGED pathway with Molly Miller on Facebook and thought it looked really good, and so then I took the trial to look around.

The overall vibe of the lessons is nice and relaxed with small bite size lesson chunks that you can dip into when you are ready.

At the end of each grade you can submit a video performance and get feedback from a pro guitarist. This is really useful as just making a video gets you to see things that need correcting, but sometimes this bit drives me mad trying to get a good take - but it’s worth it.

Overall It’s fun and engaging way to learn guitar, will you be next?

Love the step by step approach which forces you to slow things down and truly get the muscle memory going.

I however feel the workouts portion are a bit too quick compared to what was learned in a week.

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.

Pickupmusic is the solution to my issues as an intermediate guitarist that learned from YouTube and hasn’t progressed in years. The instruction is so clear and the website is so smooth and well laid out that it makes me want to get on and practice everyday. I thumbed through the late beginner course to try and fill the gaps of being self-taught. I learned how to bend and was given such good advice for learning to solo, that I love just picking up my guitar and seeing what I can create with only a few notes.

I haven’t felt this excited about guitar since I first started playing. I highly recommend anyone wanting to level up their playing to at least do the free trial (they don’t try to sneak your payment date by you). It’s great value for the money with the amount of high quality content if you decide to get the annual subscription. Dive in and you won’t regret it!

I just finished grade 4 of the intermediate learning pathway. I really like that the lessons start at a slow bpm, so you can get under your fingers.
Then it gets more musical.
I really like playing the major scale in thirds.
It was difficult at first, but fun once I got it down

Hey everyone,
After feeling stuck in my guitar progress, I decided to take guitar playing a bit more serieus, and it’s slowly but surely taking my playing to the next level.
I highly recommend it to anyone looking to "pick up" the guitar again after years of playing the same things over and over again.

It has definitely helped me a lot!

Wim

I like the introductory lessons on everything the guitar has to offer, from chord shapes like barre chords, and techniques like slides and even the theory behind triads.

The only suggestion I would make would be to link related lessons in each day. For example, on the triad day, what other Pickup Music content related to triads is there? and where can I take a deeper dive? Where are some extra practice routines related to what I am learning, so that I can have a little extra to work on for that day? Being able to access PM's library from the course would be a great extra tool.

Got me out of the intermediate rut. I think a lot of guitar players, especially "self-taught" reach this point where they know the basics but they've lacked structure and are a bit stuck as to where to go next. I also got to the point where I just wanted to play guitar, but I didn't want to do the research and teaching aspect.

Pickupmusic solve this with pathways - a structured learning course. All the instructors are excellent players and highly knowledgeable.

This site has reignited my passion for guitar.