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Gipsy Kings...Not - Feb 24 Episode

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Music for a Gipsy Kings Guitar

EPISODE DEC 5: Tom plays a long flamencoesque intro and tears into a rumba.

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Travis Picking Demo

EPISODE OCT 10: Tom demonstrates country fingerpicking, also called Travis picking. There are some decent close-ups of his alternating thumb stroke.

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America

EPISODE OCTOBER 17: Tom likes to throw in an instrumental of America the Beautiful at his gigs almost like a prayer. [Check out his "AmerIraq" MP3 free download at www.tomsguitarshow.com/listen.]

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Caller on Spanish Guitar Lick

EPISODE NOV 21: A caller asked for some Spanish licks and Tom showed him a few. It turned out the caller was really talking about Malaguena which he had seen on an Esteban commercial.

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EPISODE AUGUST 8th: The hook to The Road (written by Danny O'Keefe and covered by Jackson Browne on his Running on Empty album) is the augmented chord. That's when you raise the 5th a half step. It makes a very lonesome sounding G chord.

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Godin Demo

EPISODE AUGUST 15th: Tom describes his Godin Multiac and Roland GR-33 synthesizer.

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This Isn't Flamenco, Part I

EPISODE SEPT 12: In this clip, Tom gives us the straight skinny on flamenco guitar, and why he's not a "real" flamenco guitar player.

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Folk Guitar Loop

EPISODE OCT 10: Tom loops a simple folksy chord progression in G.

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Stomp Box Demo

EPISODE SEPT 5th: A caller asked why it often sounds like Tom is playing with two guitars. Tom demonstrates his looping device for her.

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Can't Find My Way Home

EPISODE SEPT 26: Tom talks about soloing-improvising on top of chord changes from somebody else's song, like this fragment from an old Blind Faith song.

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Lounge Music

EPISODE AUGUST 22nd: This is typical of the type of background music Tom plays at fancy lounges.

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Baritone Guitar Demo

EPISODE NOV 28: Tom describes his Dan Electro baritone guitar.

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Jazz Box Demo

EPISODE SEPT 12: Tom explains the history of arch top guitars and how they evolved into hollow-body jazz boxes, then demonstrates with a short loop at the end.

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Elevator Music

EPISODE JULY 25th: Tom opens the show with a soothing elevator-ish track -- music he sometimes feels he shouldn't play in public. But there was a good reason for it to be coined "elevator music."