Rhythm Guitarist Practice Plan

Once you understand the basics of rhythm guitar, it’s time to start practicing! In this toolkit, Charlie Stevens will review some of the most important chord types and rhythmic concepts, each accompanied by a detailed practice lesson that includes multiple exercises and repetitions. You’ll learn the boom-chuck beat (used most famously by Johnny Cash) along with suspended chords, bass runs, power chords, barre chords, and more. But most importantly, you’ll learn to effectively practice all of you

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Rhythm Guitarist Practice Plan

About this course

Once you understand the basics of rhythm guitar, it’s time to start practicing! In this toolkit, Charlie Stevens will review some of the most important chord types and rhythmic concepts, each accompanied by a detailed practice lesson that includes multiple exercises and repetitions. You’ll learn the boom-chuck beat (used most famously by Johnny Cash) along with suspended chords, bass runs, power chords, barre chords, and more. But most importantly, you’ll learn to effectively practice all of your new skills.

What you'll learn

  • Play syncopated rhythms more easily using the placeholder strumming technique
  • Use different rhythm densities to build song intensity
  • Add eighth note upstrokes to create boom-ditty variations
  • Develop left-hand muting by releasing pressure while maintaining chord shape
  • Understand how consistent subdivisions make complex rhythms easier to execute
Release date: 10/20/2021 • 3h 20m runtime
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Sample lessons
Mixing Rhythms
Mixing Rhythms
Lesson
Sus Chords
Sus Chords
Lesson
Power Chords
Power Chords
Lesson
Barre Chords and Funky Extensions
Barre Chords and Funky Extensions
Lesson

What's included

21 lessons • 20 charts

Introduction
Charlie Stevens introduces us to 'Rhythm Guitarist Practice Plan'!
Counting and Rhythms
Let's kick things off with the core of any musical piece, counting and rhythms.
Counting and Rhythms
Time to commit the skills from the previous lesson to memory with some practice repetitions!
Mixing Rhythms
OK now let's take the next step and learn how to mix our rhythms!
Mixing Rhythms
Now lets get some practice reps in so we can truly get mixing rhythms under our fingers!
Strum for Nothin'
In this lesson, Charlie will cover some key strumming patterns.
Strum for Nothin'
Now let's commit the strumming skills from the previous lesson to muscle memory with some practice repetitions.

+ 14 more lessons

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Reviews

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Thebutcher29

Verified buyer

06/22/25

Great

This is a great course for a beginner. It explains you in a simple but effective way how the strumming basic works. Also the exercises are easy to follow and really helps to develops rhythm.

deltapaul

Verified buyer

01/19/25

Well presented Charlie explains very thoroughly his program

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