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Jack Thammarat (born December 25, 1979) is a guitarist from Thailand. He is best known as the winner of Guitar Idol 2009 competition. He has acknowledged the influence of many guitarists including Joe Satriani, John Petrucci, David Gilmour, Alex Lifeson, Steve Vai, Eric Johnson, Steve Lukather, Gary Moore, Scott Henderson, Robben Ford, Frank Gambale, Greg Howe and more.

He has taught himself to play the instrument since 13 years old. In 1996, Jack took guitar lessons from finger style guitarist, Ajarn Boonchop. He then took more advanced lessons from famous Thai guitar instructor Ajarn Prart Aroonrangsi and attended Chandrakasem Rajabhat University for studies in music at the same time.

At university he played in a band named Icon, the winner of Thailand Yamaha Band alert 1999. They subsequently changed their band name to ‘Bean’ and released their own album in 2000. After leaving ‘Bean’ in 2003, he moved to perform with various Thai artists. Additionally he has worked as a studio guitarist, arranger and music composer since 2003 until present.

Besides being a guitarist, Jack also works as a guitar instructor at Prart Music School and Chandrakasem Rajabhat University. He has his own instruction video, How to play Rock Guitar (distributed in Thailand) with Tone Project in 2004.

He is one of the best seller artists in jamtrackcentral.com a popular jam tracks website among many great players such as Guthrie Govan, Alex Hutchings, Andy James etc. His Guitar Idol 2009 winner tune "On the Way" is one of top downloaded tracks. He also has 23,000+ subscribers on his YouTube channel. At the time of writing he has 95 music videos uploaded on YouTube. These include covers by Andy Timmons (Cry for You), Joe Satriani (Flying in a Blue Dream), Gary Moore (The Loner), Pat Metheny (Here to Stay), and Jeff Beck (Cause We've Ended as Lovers - this track featuring a 13 year old girl bass guitarist!).

Jack's website is at http://jackthammarat.net/