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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, intermediate and advanced arrangements and tutor...

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 into music theory ...

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 Aagård, Thomas Griggs, and Gilad Hekselm...

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 it. ...

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 te...

Hablot Brown, John Splithoff, Horace Bray, Rob Araujo, Lindsey Lomis, JD Beck & DOMi, Hailey Knox, Georgie Clifford, Abigail Zachko.

This year we discovered so many incredible artists. You'll find a mix of instrumentalists and recording artists below. Some of them have had their "break-through mome...

Nicole Cerminara, Adrian Brown, Achmad Satria, Kaspar Jalily, Kazuki Isogai, TJ Whitelaw, Mia Garcia, Justus West, Ashton Sellars

Introducing our second annual list of young guitar players who are up to big things.

Some of the guitarists are well established while others are just getting starting....

We sat down with Bruno Major at his recent show in Brooklyn, NY for an interview and intimate soundcheck performance. Bruno shared insight on his creative process and influences.

This is Episode 3 of our How I'm Here YouTube series.

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Everyone at our Los Angeles shows was freaking out about seeing these two icons perform together for the first time. Thanks to everyone who made this show a possibility and the artists who performed.

Video by Merrick Winter

Photos by Sandra Jenae and Merrick Winter.

We're in Miami, Florida this weekend for GroundUp Fest. What better way to kick off the weekend than an exclusive sit down with Michael League– the mastermind behind Snarky Puppy and GroundUp Music – and guitarist Chris McQueen (FORQ, Snarky Puppy).