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We sat down with Pickup's Head of Education Karl Kerfoot to learn about his experience working as a pro touring guitarist with Albert Hammond Jr. (of The Strokes) and Lord Huron.

Join Jude Smith and the Pickup Music team as they judge a soloing competition between guitarists who are members of the Pickup Music community.

Contestants:

• Dan 
• Rodrigo 
• Joseph
• Jonathan
• Jair
• Chad
• Danny 
• Ethan 
• John
• Shire
• Fabinho
• Matthew

In this week's episode of Office Hours, Pickup Music's Head of Education, Karl Kerfoot, breaks down a lesson on DADGAD tuning for fingerstyle guitar.

Fingerstyle star Collin Hill joined the Pickup Music team at Office Hours to break down his approach to fingerstyle playing.

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Introducing our new series, How to Play Jazz Standards.

In this series you’ll learn how to play five must-know standards, Autumn Leaves, Blue Bossa, Fly Me To The Moon, Body and Soul, and All the Things you Are.

Each jazz standard includes beginner,...

Sam Blakelock (@samblakelock), the founder of Pickup Music and a jazz-trained guitarist with a Master of Music from the City University of New York, is sharing bite-sized music theory lessons on Instagram.

Check out Sam’s causal lessons below and if you want to take a deeper look...

This week we kicked off our Solo Guitar series with eight arrangements of Amazing Grace.

The series features original arrangements from an all-star cast of guitarists: Isaiah Sharkey, Justin Johnson, Ariel Posen, Nicholas Veinoglou, Kazuki Isogai, Tora Dahle Aagard, Thomas Griggs, and Gilad...

Ibanez and PickUp Music are excited to present Ichika Mo performing new original riffs for our SongSquad series. Ichika is one of our favorite guitarists so we were super excited to have him perform for us.

PickUp Music members get access to the full TAB and a slower version to help you master...

This class won't teach you how to conquer classical guitar in a few months. In fact, some of these concepts will take you years to really get the hang of.

What this class will do, however, is provide you with an expertly-crafted and easily-navigable pathway to master fundamental classical guitar...