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Bridging The Gap on Guitar (JamPlay)

Break Through the Beginner Plateau and Level Up Your Playing

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Bridging The Gap on Guitar (JamPlay)
Dave Isaacs

Dave Isaacs

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About this course

Feeling stuck in “perpetual beginner” mode? You’re not alone—and you’re not destined to stay there. Bridging the Gap on Guitar with Dave Isaacs is designed specifically for players who’ve learned the basics but struggle to progress. If you find yourself repeating the same patterns, lacking confidence, or unsure how to practice effectively, this course is your roadmap to the next level.

Across 60 carefully structured video lessons, Dave guides you through a comprehensive curriculum that tackles rhythm, strumming, chord transitions, ear training, technique, phrasing, improvisation, and more. You’ll develop better control, coordination, musical understanding, and confidence in your playing. Each lesson builds real-world skills that will help you move beyond “beginner” and into the realm of well-rounded musicianship.

If you’ve ever said “I’ve learned the basics, but I still don’t feel like a real guitarist,” this is the course that will help you finally bridge that gap.

What you'll learn

  • Use bar chord shapes to locate notes on the fretboard
  • Identify four-chord progressions by ear
  • Recognize major vs minor chord qualities by listening
  • Work out guitar parts independently using ear training skills
  • Understand how bass movement guides harmonic progression
Release date: 03/15/2018 • 9h 43m runtime
late beginneracoustic guitartheoryapplied theory
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Sample lessons
Strumming & Muting
Strumming & Muting
Strumming & Muting
Practicing Chord Transitions
Practicing Chord Transitions
Chord Transitions
Developing Accuracy
Developing Accuracy
Developing Accuracy
Picking Arpeggios
Picking Arpeggios
Arpeggios

What's included

60 lessons • 26 charts • 22 Jam Tracks

Bridging The Gap Series Introduction
Many players find themselves in perpetual beginner mode after feeling like they have learned the basics. They seem to struggle with the same sorts of things over and over again, lack direction in their practice sessions and find it difficult to regularly apply what they have learned. This course is designed by Dave Isaacs with these players in mind. The goal of this material is to help players who feel like they will always be a beginner, to break through to the next level. We want to help you bridge the gap between a beginner player and an advanced player.
Strumming & Rhythm
Move beyond the mindset that you need to learn new strum patterns and into the more musical way to approach rhythm guitar. Great rhythm playing is more of a mindset and a groove consciousness and less about creating a library of strumming exercises.
Strumming & Rhythm
Move beyond the mindset that you need to learn new strum patterns and into the more musical way to approach rhythm guitar. Great rhythm playing is more of a mindset and a groove consciousness and less about creating a library of strumming exercises.
Groove Vocabulary
You'll continue with groove development in this lesson. This time you'll focus in on shuffle and swing grooves while continuing to discuss mechanics and strumming mindset.
Groove Vocabulary
You'll continue with groove development in this lesson. This time you'll focus in on shuffle and swing grooves while continuing to discuss mechanics and strumming mindset.
Strumming & Muting
Now we get to work on adding mutes and ultimately percussive interest into our strumming. We won't do it by learning exact patterns though. We'll approach it through the concepts we've been learning in the past few lessons.
Strumming & Muting
Now we get to work on adding mutes and ultimately percussive interest into our strumming. We won't do it by learning exact patterns though. We'll approach it through the concepts we've been learning in the past few lessons.

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Reviews

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Geoff

09/19/25

Great all round course

Cannot recommend this course highly enough. Teaches so many skills. Particularly enjoyed the sections on string picking, note emphasis and guitar licks. I even enjoyed the singing lessons! Although I completed course I've taken quite a few lessons away to do again and improve over a longer period of time. The licks section is fantastic and gives loads of examples of ideas the student can use in their solos to work around major/minor and pentatonic scales. Was definitely a missing link in my learning. Thank you Dave.

yepMOREguitar

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03/30/25

Worth every penny! Bridge the gap is what YOU need if you are a stuck beginner!

LOVE Dave Issac!!!!! Best teacher out there! Exactly what I need to get out of the perpetual beginner stage. Highly recommended.

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