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For beginner & intermediate GUITARISTS

Unlock your guitar

  • Learn how to improvise in any key
  • Break out of scale-shape boxes when soloing
  • Visualize your entire fretboard using the CAGED system
  • Learn through daily instruction, guided exercises, and 🔥 backing tracks
 

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Looking to break out of a rut?

"I feel like my playing has plateaued"

"I don't know what to practice"

"I play the same old licks"

"I know scales, but I'm stuck in a few positions"

If this is you... then this program is for you.

For beginner & intermediate GUITARISTS

Unlock your guitar

  • Learn how to improvise in any key
  • Break out of scale-shape boxes when soloing
  • Visualize your entire fretboard using the CAGED system
  • Learn through daily instruction, guided exercises, and 🔥 backing tracks

Step-by-step Instruction

4 extensive levels

40 lessons with HD video tutorials, interactive TAB, visual diagrams, and PDF class notes.

Time

10 days per level

Learn at your own pace. Most students take between two and three months to complete this Bootcamp.

Outcome

Learn to solo – any key, any style

Develop the ability to confidently improvise anywhere on your guitar with Molly's focused approach to the CAGED system.

Just the start

Unlimited access to all classes

Get access to Pickup Music's 
entire lesson library for every step of your guitar learning journey – from beginner to expert.

A Guided learning pathway

The CAGED system will set you free

CAGED is the best method to demystify your guitar and achieve fretboard freedom.
By the end of this Bootcamp, you'll be able to fluently solo in any key & style across your entire guitar.

Part I.

Level 1. CAGED shapes (7 days)

Start mapping out your fretboard by learning the fundamentals of the CAGED system.

Part II.

Level 2. How to connect CAGED (7 days)

Next, you'll continue building your CAGED foundation and work on connecting moveable chord shapes across your guitar with simple musical lines.

Part III.

Level 3. CAGED major pentatonic (10 days)

Here, you'll get started with improvisation and soloing by learning to use the major pentatonic scale through the lens of CAGED.

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Level 4. Soloing with CAGED (10 days)

Put your knowledge to work! In this level, you'll jam with Molly and improvise guitar solos over backing tracks created by some of the world's best guitarists.

Hear why students love this program

Learn what makes Molly Miller's Master Class so popular

Raul M.

"This class helped in providing a structured framework for understanding the fretboard with an easy process for fretboard memorization. Since I had previously spent time understanding the energy of the numbers system, it was of a lot more help than if it were explained using note names."

Paul W.

"This class does 2 things. One, it makes you more aware of all the notes on the fretboard up and down the neck, and, two, you can use those chord shapes to play lead or melody against the chords. I have found I am playing more to the chord now maybe as much or more than to any scale pattern."

Chris C.

"This Master Class has been eye-opening on many levels. This is legit the most straightforward and effortless way to map out every note on the fretboard. Thanks a lot!"

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THe CAGED Method

Why learn CAGED?

  • It'll prepare you to become an advanced guitarist
  • Pro guitarists worldwide use CAGED to improvise guitar solos
  • It's easy for beginners and intermediate players to learn. You only need to know basic chord shapes!
  • It works for all styles of music. 
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THe CAGED Method

What is CAGED?

The CAGED system is a method of organizing the fretboard into five shapes. Each shape has a name, which comes from a simple open chord shape: C, A, G, E, and D.

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Learn at your own pace

Learn through a step-by-step curriculum

Not sure where to begin? Take our free quiz to see which level you should start with.

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Stay focused. Keep learning.

Enough lessons to last you a lifetime.

With unlimited access to a diverse library of regularly-released neo-soul lessons and Master Classes, the learning never stops.

Take the next step

Learn 7 modes in 7 days

  • Learn the seven modes of the major scale
  • Understand how to solo with modes
  • College-level curriculum
  • Licks, TAB, backing tracks and everything you need
 
 

move from intermediate to advanced

Develop modern guitar techniques

  • Full-length advanced Master Class with Ruben Wan
  • Learn practical music theory
  • Understand Gospel, R&B and neo-soul concepts
  • How to make viral Instagram guitar videos

FEATURES

What else is in a Pickup Music membership?

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  • All-inclusive access to over 500 lessons
  • Learn blues, jazz, R&B, neo soul, pop, funk, classical, and theory
  • Interactive TAB, backing tracks, and class notes with every lesson
  • HD videos and multi-camera angles for enhanced learning
  • Unlimited learning support and custom feedback in our community forum

All-inclusive access to every Master Class

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Molly Miller

MEET YOUR INSTRUCTORS

Molly Miller

Molly is an expert educator who will help you get to the next level.

Dr. Miller graduated with a Doctorate in Guitar Performance from the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music and currently leads the guitar department at Los Angeles College of Music.

As a professional guitarist, Molly's resume is staggering. She has performed, toured, and recorded with the likes of Jason Mraz, Black Eyed Peas, Donna Missal, Morgxn, and Kenton Chen. She has also performed at legendary venues like the Hollywood Bowl, Royal Albert Hall, Coachella, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, and Walt Disney Concert Hall.

She also plays in the house band on The Bachelor’s newest ABC primetime show, Listen To Your Heart. When she isn’t on tour, running a collegiate guitar department, or creating in the studio, she fronts her own band, Molly Miller Trio, which has been featured on NPR’s Fresh Air.

Sam Blakelock

Sam is leading music educator with a Master's degree in jazz performance from the City University of New York.

Sam is an expert at getting intermediate guitar players to the next level. He focuses on clear practice guidelines and breaking down advanced techniques into small learnable chunks. Sam has travelled the world gigging, and plays an influential role in the online guitar community as well being the founder of Pickup Music. 

Molly Miller
Molly Miller

Ruben Wan

Ruben is a world-class artist with viral sucess.

With his unique visual style and dedication to guitar mastery, Ruben Wan is one of the most exciting guitarists on Instagram. Ruben has studied with the greats and performed with Allie Sherlock, Ryan Tedder, Elijah Blake, among others.

 

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  • 30+ Master Classes
  • 300+ SongSquads
  • 70+ Lick Packages 
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  • Artist Toolkit 
  • Jam Tracks
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  • 14-day free trial
  • 30+ Master Classes
  • 300+ SongSquads
  • 70+ Lick Packages 
  • 5 Minute Lessons
  • Artist Toolkit 
  • Jam Tracks
  • Members-only forum
  • Enter in the Emerging Artist Fund
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