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 Tom Ceschin

 An American Finger Style Guitarist

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 Tom's early influence for the acoustic guitar was the great Nashville artist Chet Atkins.

 Listening to Chet's work Tom began to develop his skills at arrangement in the early years of his playing. 

 At the age of 18 Tom then discovered Leo Kottke's hallmark record album, 'My Feet are Smiling'. 

 Following in the tradition of this American master of the acoustic guitarist, Tom has 

 written numerous instrumental works on the guitar over the past 35 years.

 These works span musical genre's that hold the qualities from rag time and stride piano to jazz, 

 with flavor's from gypsy to country/folk, in format's from ballad's to suites, among other's not so easily defined.

 The ebb and flow of variety in these works has followed random paths in development over the years.

 Often on that journey musical places not heard before were discovered.

 But always at the heart his compositions is the basic foundation of  melody.

 These melody's are each supported by complex, yet subtle original chord progressions and syncopated rhythm's

 that work under that melody to give unique flavor's to each work. 

 It is also these elements that define these works as original,

 presented in the American Finger Style for solo guitar.

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