One of the world’s leading fusion legato players — and, for over a decade, one of its most listened-to teachers.
Tom picked up the guitar at fifteen, inspired by his father’s extraordinary fingerstyle playing. What began as fascination with rock guitar — fed by Steve Vai, John Petrucci, and Brett Garsed — soon deepened into something else: a pull toward the harmonic language of jazz and fusion, and a hunger to understand not just how those players moved across the neck, but why.