The Beginner Rhythm Guitar Practice Plan, Vol. 2: Strumming & Groove (JamPlay)

Expand Your Chord Vocabulary and Play with Greater Flow and Musicality

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The Beginner Rhythm Guitar Practice Plan, Vol. 2: Strumming & Groove (JamPlay)

About this course

If you’ve built a foundation with open chords and basic transitions, The Beginner Rhythm Practice Plan Vol. 2 is your next step toward confident, dynamic rhythm guitar playing. In this follow-up to Volume 1, guitarist and educator Dave Isaacs helps you push past the beginner stage by introducing new chord shapes, progressions, and strumming techniques—all while continuing to emphasize proper form, efficient movement, and musical context.

This course dives deeper into the practical mechanics of rhythm guitar, guiding you through major and minor chord families, movable shapes, and chord progressions that are essential to real-world playing. Dave’s method focuses on small, intentional movements and smart hand positioning to help you make clean transitions with less effort and more control. You’ll develop greater finger independence, accuracy, and muscle memory while learning how to create smoother, more musical strumming patterns.

As in Volume 1, the emphasis is on playing smarter—not harder. Dave breaks down each concept with clarity and patience, ensuring that you understand not only how to play a progression but why it works. You'll come away with stronger fretboard awareness, improved rhythmic feel, and a much more versatile toolkit for accompanying yourself or others.

Whether you're aiming to jam with friends, play along with your favorite songs, or write your own music, this course will help you move beyond beginner basics and start playing with purpose and precision.

What you'll learn

  • Execute complex 16th note syncopated rhythms at 94 BPM
  • Execute clean sixteenth note strumming patterns using wrist snap technique
  • Count and play various sixteenth note rhythm combinations (long-short-short, short-short-long, etc.)
  • Understand how sixteenth notes subdivide quarter notes into four parts
  • Develop light, bouncing wrist motion for fast, clean strumming
Release date: 09/28/2020 • 4h 55m runtime
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Sample lessons
Strum Mechanics
Strum Mechanics
Lesson
Syncopated Rhythms
Syncopated Rhythms
Lesson
Shuffle and Swing
Shuffle and Swing
Lesson

What's included

25 lessons • 24 charts • 16 Jam Tracks

Beginner Rhythm Guitar Practice Plan Vol. 2 - Strumming and Groove
Welcome to volume two of David Isaacs' Beginner Rhythm Guitar Practice Plan. Before moving to volume two, you should have a proficient understanding of the concepts and techniques taught in volume one. This series will focus on strumming, counting rhythm and creating good groove and pocket.
Pulse, Meter and Rhythm
To kick off this series, David defines a few terms such as pulse and meter while discussing some basic written notation ideas. You'll get going with some basic rhythmic counting, then move on to practical application in the next lesson.
Pulse, Meter and Rhythm
Now let's apply the concept from the previous lesson in a practical manner. You'll be strumming rhythm to basic rhythmic subdivisions along with the supplemental content provided.
Working With a Metronome
The metronome is never wrong and that may be why many people loathe it. In this concept lesson, David talks about working with the metronome and using it as a reference instead of following it. You'll be working on different permutations of playing on a beat.
Working With a Metronome
Now let's apply those beat permutations that you worked on in the previous lesson, to a practice exercise. Remember, you're reading from the supplemental content and using the metronome as a tempo guide.
Strum Mechanics
As you start to strum patterns in 8th note or further subdivisions, you need to be able to strum in both directions and as efficiently as possible. In this concept lesson, David will help you create even strumming in both directions.
Strum Mechanics
Now that you've got your strum mechanics down. Let's practice several combinations of rhythm that include up-strokes.

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