Pickup Music?

[cherryblossom]

Anyone tried pickup music to advance their guitar skills? I am thinking between this and Truefire while the Truefire sale is still on. Thanks.

 

[JasonE]

Never heard of it. I know of True Fire. I used them many years ago. Some of the stuff was decent. I decided to get a membership with them mid last year to dig through what they have now for inspiration and potentially picking some new things up. They have added a ton of stuff since I had a membership with them in the past.

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Anyone tried pickup music to advance their guitar skills? I am thinking between this and Truefire while the Truefire sale is still on. Thanks.

Pickup has shorter stuff in smaller bite sizes which is good for keeping you on task and making you feel like you did something, but not always all that awesome at really progressing you as a player, in my experience?

 

[HomespunEffects]

Does it compare to GuitarTricks.com?

 

[cherryblossom]

Pickup has shorter stuff in smaller bite sizes which is good for keeping you on task and making you feel like you did something, but not always all that awesome at really progressing you as a player, in my experience?

Agreed. I started a monthly subscription and their CAGED course was good. Then I tried a couple different courses and they were just okay. So i decided to not continue with the subscription. Maybe will look into Truefire.

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Agreed. I started a monthly subscription and their CAGED course was good. Then I tried a couple different courses and they were just okay. So i decided to not continue with the subscription. Maybe will look into Truefire.

With true fire you need to be a little more disciplined in terms of figuring out how to actually use what they give you to create your own practice routine. A 5 minute “overview” followed by a 1.5 minute “performance” with tab and backing track CAN be like a week or more worth of work depending on how you choose to use it, and they don’t always lay out “so this is what a practice session should look like”.

 

[JasonE]

With true fire you need to be a little more disciplined in terms of figuring out how to actually use what they give you to create your own practice routine. A 5 minute “overview” followed by a 1.5 minute “performance” with tab and backing track CAN be like a week or more worth of work depending on how you choose to use it, and they don’t always lay out “so this is what a practice session should look like”.

This is a problem with most if not all sites that offer "training." The toughest part is learning how to use it once you learn it. Learning how to practice is a skill that isn't obvious in these sites. there are some books out there on this topic. I actually bought the Kindle version of a few of them but haven't really spent the time to really dig into them. I like to read things like this and study things I find to see how others approach things. I also do it hoping to find another piece of information or approach that I didn't know or didn't think about from that angle.