The Beginner Rhythm Guitar Practice Plan, Vol. 3: Fretboard Harmony (JamPlay)

Master the Essentials of Rhythm Guitar and Play with Confidence in Any Style

Marty FriedmanTommy EmmanuelSteve VaiEric GalesEric Johnson

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The Beginner Rhythm Guitar Practice Plan, Vol. 3: Fretboard Harmony (JamPlay)

About this course

If you're ready to take the final step from beginner to solid, dependable rhythm guitarist, The Beginner Rhythm Practice Plan Vol. 3 is the course that pulls it all together. In this final installment of the series, Dave Isaacs helps you solidify your timing, expand your stylistic range, and deepen your command of rhythm so you can play with confidence in real musical settings.

This volume focuses on rhythm guitar as a musical role—how to support a groove, respond dynamically, and lock in with other musicians. Dave teaches you how to build consistency in your strumming, navigate more complex patterns, and explore essential feels like rock, pop, country, and blues. You'll work with common chord progressions in multiple keys, practice tempo control and rhythmic subdivisions, and gain a better understanding of how rhythm works both technically and musically.

Through clear demonstrations and guided practice, you’ll also learn how to use your strumming hand as a rhythmic engine, making subtle shifts in feel, dynamics, and articulation. Dave’s approach keeps the focus on playing clean, relaxed, and musical—avoiding bad habits while building the muscle memory and instinct that define great rhythm players.

Whether you're playing alone, with a singer, or in a full band, this course will prepare you to hold down the groove and elevate the song. By the end of this volume, you'll not only be playing more fluently—you’ll be thinking like a rhythm guitarist.

What you'll learn

  • Apply voice leading concepts to chord progressions
  • Use chromatic harmony to expand chord vocabulary
  • Connect chords using common tones and half-step relationships
  • Understand how two-note forms imply multiple chords
  • Understand how to use notes outside the key through chromaticism
Release date: 09/28/2020 • 4h 29m runtime
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Sample lessons
Scale Degrees
Scale Degrees
Lesson
Chord Theory: Parallel Major and Minor Intervals
Chord Theory: Parallel Major and Minor Intervals
Lesson
Minor 7th Chords
Minor 7th Chords
Lesson

What's included

25 lessons • 12 charts

Series Introduction
Dave gives you a description of the course and what you need to know to get going.
Fretboard Mapping
Dave helps us understand string and note relationships across the neck as a way to understand the fretboard. Specifically, we are going to look at octaves from string to string.
Fretboard Mapping
Dave shows us an exercise using those octave shapes to really cement them into place for us, breaks it down, and then we practice it together.
Scale Degrees
Now we are going to look at scales. Why scales in a rhythm course? Because it will inform how the chords in a key relate to each other. So we will first learn how the scale degrees sound.
Scale Degrees
This exercise walks us through the scale degrees and helps us familiarize them with shapes on the neck.
Basic Chord Theory: Triads
The first step to understanding how chords work is learning about triads, or three note groups that form the basic building blocks of chords.
Basic Chord Theory: Triads
In this exercise, we use the triads we just explored in the previous lesson to outline melodic figures in a progression.

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freddy1961

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12/06/25

Easy to follow. . . calmly understandable explanation

arpeggio5

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09/13/25

Very laid out course even if you don't read music.

clr907

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07/31/25

Beginner Rhythm Guitar

I'm learning the things I should have had decades ago as a foundation!

GerryB56

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03/19/25

A great music theory primer

I am still working my way through this course, but it came at the perfect time for me as I've been trying to expand my playing beyond just strumming chords. I really like the methodical, laid-back approach that Dave Isaacs presents in teaching us how to recognize useful shapes and intervals to solidify our fretboard knowledge. Many of the topics are ones that were somewhat familiar to me, but this course is really helping to give me a deeper understanding of what I've been studying.

tyfirefighter31

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03/12/25

AWESOME COURSE

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