Hello and welcome. It's No Guitarist Safe, Episode 37, and I have a mind-bogglingly awesome guitarist on the show today.

His name is Daniele Guitardo.

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Wow. You are about to get your mind blown by today's guest because you're, I mean,

you're just going to want to listen to some of these things twice, some of the things he's going to show you.

Where technique and harmony and timbre and modulation in the space-time continuum or something all overlap.

But before I get going, I just got to say, you know, I just, for kicks, took a little break here, looked at the news, because

you know what, there's so much going on. That's because today is November 9th, 2016,

and the presidential election results here in America have just come in mere hours ago,

and people are kind of surprised. Some people are celebrating.

People are protesting.

Other people are rejoicing.

Other people are crying.

I'm looking at a map of the United States

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