sippettone
Verified buyer
01/23/25
50 years of guitar
Very good informations and nice instructor thanks!
50 Years of Guitar (JamPlay)
Explore Five Decades of Iconic Guitar Styles and Techniques
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Dave Isaacs
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About this course
Take a musical journey through the last half-century of guitar with veteran educator Dave Isaacs. In this immersive course, you'll explore the defining sounds, techniques, and stylistic shifts that shaped modern guitar playing—from 1950s double-stops and boogie grooves to soulful fingerstyle, melodic bending, and syncopated funk riffs.
Through 51 engaging lessons, Dave breaks down rhythm and lead approaches across rock, blues, country, R&B, and beyond. You’ll play through original songs and exercises designed to mirror key genres and artist influences, while building your skills in areas like passing chords, triadic movement, melodic arpeggios, string bending, and pentatonic riffing. Every lesson helps deepen your musical vocabulary, strengthen your fretboard knowledge, and connect chord progressions with expressive soloing techniques.
Whether you're a student of the instrument or simply a fan of great guitar music, this course gives you the tools and insight to honor the past while elevating your own playing.
Through 51 engaging lessons, Dave breaks down rhythm and lead approaches across rock, blues, country, R&B, and beyond. You’ll play through original songs and exercises designed to mirror key genres and artist influences, while building your skills in areas like passing chords, triadic movement, melodic arpeggios, string bending, and pentatonic riffing. Every lesson helps deepen your musical vocabulary, strengthen your fretboard knowledge, and connect chord progressions with expressive soloing techniques.
Whether you're a student of the instrument or simply a fan of great guitar music, this course gives you the tools and insight to honor the past while elevating your own playing.
What you'll learn
- Navigate chromatic walks between chord positions
- Execute clean fingerpicking patterns on electric guitar using thumb, index, and middle fingers
- Create melodic lines by reducing full bar chords to 2-3 note voicings
- Apply parallel sixths on different string sets (strings 4&2, adjacent strings)
- Develop consistent attack for country-style fingerpicking
Release date: 05/04/2016 • 8h 29m runtime
Sample lessons
Home - Picked Arpeggios
Picked Arpeggios
Stix Stax - Moveable Partial Chords
Stix Stax
Stone Face - Play Like Keith Richards
Moving Chords
Bend Don't Break - String Bending
Melodic String Bending
What's included
51 lessons • 28 charts • 27 Jam Tracks
50 Years Of Guitar Introduction
Join Dave Isaacs for a comprehensive course covering some of the most well-known sounds of the last 50 years in guitar playing. Come straight out of Isaac's Phase 1 series and learn songs in the style of The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, The Eagles, Stevie Wonder, and more! You'll also learn how to practice new techniques and apply more musical ideas as you work through each example.
Ride The Cycle - Chord Review
Get warmed up and bridge the gap between Dave's extensive Phase 1 course with this lesson on chords. You'll have a nice track to play over and you'll be able to review many of the common chords you may already use every day!
Ride The Cycle - Chord Review
Get warmed up and bridge the gap between Dave's extensive Phase 1 course with this lesson on chords. You'll have a nice track to play over and you'll be able to review many of the common chords you may already use every day!
Passing Thru - Passing Chords
Learn how to use inversion chords to link other chords together. This happens all the time in the Rock and Roll style of bands like AC/DC. Grab your overdrive pedal and and make a statement with your chords!
Passing Thru - Passing Chords
Learn how to use inversion chords to link other chords together. This happens all the time in the Rock and Roll style of bands like AC/DC. Grab your overdrive pedal and and make a statement with your chords!
Home - Picked Arpeggios
Work your chords in a melodic and soothing way. Picked arpeggios make it possible to extract melody from ordinary chord shapes. Once you have the concept and shapes down, try your hands at playing over calming backing track called "Home".
Home - Picked Arpeggios
Work your chords in a melodic and soothing way. Picked arpeggios make it possible to extract melody from ordinary chord shapes. Once you have the concept and shapes down, try your hands at playing over calming backing track called "Home".
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Reviews
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primalscream
Verified buyer
01/08/25
David Isaac's 50 years of guitar
Once again David has produced a great course. His teaching method is practical, thorough and easy to follow
rkrlaw
Verified buyer
12/21/24
Hats off to True Fire!
The best online purveyors of guitar instruction.
Jordu
Verified buyer
12/11/24
Merece la pena
rfvelk
Verified buyer
11/28/24
Great course and instructor!
Great instructor! Very clear instruction and love the "instructor's view" of the fretboard! I have a number of Dave Isaac's courses and they are all excellent.
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