April 18th, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “Earth Man”
Chapters00:00 - Challenging chord exploration
Notes
Uncle Larry explores the well known drop D tuning that they use in all those songs about trucks and drinkin’…but in a slightly different way…
disclaimer: this probably won't be of much interest to string locker and all you guys out there who wear les paul juniors down below your knees.
and....a serious gold star to any Homeskooler who can actually play this...difficulty level= 9.8/10
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April 17th, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “Hey Man Nice Yacht”
Chapters00:00 - A tune that goes somewhere
Notes
Uncle Larry explores the deepest depths of the ocean with a dry old chunk of nicely bursted Kalamazoo...
and hey kid...you like rock and roll?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMtXfb7CfiA
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April 11th, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “Heartburn Highways”
Chapters00:00 - Masters playing
Notes
Little Tommy and Cousin Bryan get into some fretboard shenanigans on company time.
Cinematography by Jimmie Lee Sloas.
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April 10th, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Bonus “How To Properly Break In A New Gibson Guitar Case”
Chapters00:00 - Cutting the cloth
Notes
Part one of breaking in a new Gibson case to make it actually usable for a gigging musician.
Part two involves making some small “adjustments” to the center locking latch with a screwdriver
Hope you enjoy friends.
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April 8th, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Volume 300, Tom Bukovac, “When Chairs Fly”
Chapters00:00 - The Black Keys - On The Game
01:18 - Hey, early morning Larry / 100,000 Subscribers plaque / Fishing
02:55 - "Eclipse Monday" / Homeskooler Tweed Deluxe buy
03:43 - The Black Keys
05:00 - '63 Gibson Southern Jumbo / Old Gibson beater, run of the mill acoustic
07:43 - "The booze guy" / Negative connotation and cannot conform to everyone
10:44 - Morgan Wallace "chair" incident
12:53 - "Kalamazoo Corral" Gibson shootout video comments
13:38 - "Which one do you like to play?" / Refretting the Goldtop
15:06 - '57 Gibson ES-175
16:00 - Signing out
Notes
Sorry I had to repost this as there was a problem with the first upload
Southern jumbos, eclipses, 300th episodes…you name it we got it in this video friends.
Thank you guys again for being so cool and supporting the cause to bring chords back to music throughout the last 4 years and throughout 300 episodes and 900 plus videos.
It truly means a lot to Larry.
Larry’s PayPal tip jar feed hose pipe is connected to this address
Tombukovac@gmail.com.
His Venmo is @Tom-Bukovac-1
April 7th, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Volume 299, Tom Bukovac, “Shootout At The Kalamazoo Corral”
Chapters00:00 - Hello, friends! / Shootout ('57 Goldtop, '59 Black Custom, '58 Burst, '69 Custom)
00:24 - Notice of the pitch angle
00:44 - Nice day fishing / Disclaimers
01:45 - Shootout setup (Big Jam Distortion, Vemuram Shanks, Princeton)
02:40 - '57 Goldtop Bridge
03:33 - '58 Burst Bridge ("Larryburst")
04:45 - '59 Custom Bridge ("Black Beauty")
05:58 - '69 Custom Bridge
07:03 - Blind test setup
07:48 - Exhibit A
08:20 - Exhibit B
08:56 - Exhibit C
09:34 - Exhibit D
10:16 - Lick A
10:45 - Lick B
11:18 - Lick C
11:48 - Lick D
12:31 - Acoustic A
12:56 - Acoustic B
13:19 - Acoustic C
13:46 - Acoustic D
14:13 - Closeout and VCB (Viewer Comment Bin)
14:35 - Recovering alcoholic viewer / "Thinking..."
16:12 - Q: Sessions sounding out of tune? A: Takes a lot to build the song; Practicing...we know
17:55 - "Black Beauty" '59 Custom helps drives the player / Inspiration factor
19:34 - Happy fishing
Notes
Uncle Larry performs a friendly little bridge pickup only shootout on a few of the more noteworthy items that came from the Golden Age of the Greatest Guitar Company To Ever Exist on this beautiful planet of ours….and a 69 too
This video is for entertainment purposes only…no user serviceable parts inside
Directors note: the guitars were cycled through in the same order in each of the “blind tests”…results will be forthcoming for anyone that actually gives a fuck
Spoiler Alert! - Guitars
A - '58 Burst
B - '57 Goldtop
C - '69 Custom
D - '59 Black Custom
April 6th, 2024
Homeskoolin' Volume 298, Tom Bukovac, "Something Borrowed Something Black"
Chapters00:00 - Session take on the goldtop
01:45 - Playing some ZZ Top montage riffs into full rock n' roll into Joe Walsh on a black Gibson Les Paul Custom
08:58 - The 3 best guitars I've played but don't own (Dan Auerbach - '60 Tele Custom, Jim Bagget - '38 Martin D-18, Elliot Michael - '59 Gibson Les Paul Custom)
09:27 - '59 Gibson Les Paul Custom
10:23 - Acoustically played
10:50 - Bridge pickup
11:32 - Playing like Jimmy Page
11:58 - Out-of-phase bridge and middle pickup (shit sound)
12:24 - Neck pickup
13:10 - Trying to buy the guitar / Headstock repair, doesn't care
Notes
"well the bitter comes out better on a stolen guitar"...
The opening bit is one of Nicky G's soulful masterpieces...from the sessions we did this week.
April 5th, 2024
Holmeskoolin’ Bonus “Early Morning Bench Time”
Chapters00:00 - Reverend Willy's string change on '57 Goldtop / Haggling
Notes
Coffee and PAF’s with Larry.
April 5th, 2024
"Hey Man Show Me A Cool Lick" (Volume 3)
Chapters00:00 - Hi-hat hit sneak
01:11 - Cool lick on the keys
02:27 - Cross stick finger groove / Jewelry jam
Notes
Starring Philly drummist Jordan Perlson and piano man Jimmy Wallace...or as we call him "Jimmy Wallets"
April 4th, 2024
Holmeskoolin’ Bonus “Johnny Bench”
Chapters00:00 - String change / Gibson shapes / Les Paul himself / Vibratos
18:57 - Behind closed doors practicing
Notes
Uncle Larry breathes some new life into a tired old early 62 LPSG…
And the end of this video is a typical slice of the devil music emanating from the bedroom at the end of the hall while I’m making dad’s spaghetti.
He does like it when I try to go in there when he’s jamming.
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April 3rd, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Volume 297, Tom Bukovac, “Bench Bum”
Chapters00:00 - Hello, friends! (catch phrase) / Impending storm
00:57 - Changing up YouTube / 1 of 31,000 / Changing strings (dead strings)
31:57 - Crease that string to stay in tune
37:06 - Marshall stuff for sale
Notes
Uncle Larry breathes some new life into an exhausted old 69 custom.
I have had lots of inquiries about the "pile of plexi"...i'm going to start off by trying to sell the entire collection at once...35K for all 7 pieces. if you study the market on plexi's with original transformers you will clearly see that is a very fair price. I know that people who are card carrying members of the old marshall cult like to buy things in collections so i am starting there. local pickup only of course...no shipping. i would also consider a trade for a dead original slab board 59 or 60 two tone tele custom...and of course any no excuses pre 1965 es-335
March 31st, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Volume 296, Tom Bukovac, “Cantaloupe In Easter Hay”
Chapters00:00 - Finger picking memories while looping and warbling
06:48 - Hello, friends! / Happy Easter / Tonga Hut
08:50 - Spicy comment section about clickbait thumbnail / Non-homophobic channel perspective
11:52 - Sincere thank you
12:23 - Naming guitars or ever name a guitar?
13:25 - Busy week
14:02 - What pickups look good, but sound bad? (Supro, Extended Range, Speedbump, Hersheybar)
16:20 - Any gear looking for? / '59-'60 Slabboard Tele Custom
Notes
Uncle Larry revisits one of the old Homeskoolin’ classics…a gesture of calming peace and brotherhood on this lovely Easter Sunday…
Hope everyone has a wonderful Easter.....thank you all for your continued support of my 4 year crusade to bring chords back to music.
today's episode goes out to all the Home(ophobia)skoolers i had to say goodbye to yesterday...it's been real people.
and....since we have a lot of new viewers coming along recently...
let me tell ya' how shit works around here...
first off, i NEVER ask anyone to subscribe or "smash that like button"....
if you do indeed learn some useful stuff from this channel and feel like it is indeed helping you as a player, all i ask is that you just throw a little something in the tip jar...especially since it's tax season ferchrissakes
You can make PayPal donations to this address:
tombukovac@gmail.com
You can make Venmo donations to this address:
@Tom-Bukovac-1
a person could potentially purchase a myriad of Homeskoolin' related merch..including several different extremely comfortable and nice feeling T-shirts and some beautifully constructed coffee mugs for those afflicted with thin lips...i pride myself on having the comfiest t shirts on earth...no scratchy bad fitting horseshit here people.. check it out at
https://dvg-inc.shoplightspeed.com/merch/tom-bukovac/
AND....believe it or not....i have a new website people....an actual proper website.
https://thesessionman.com
You can see all kinds of weird old photos there, you can also purchase a download of the live concert i did last December if you like.
A lot of these very same new viewers don't seem to know that Uncle Larry made a couple records that they could potentially listen to... one is an instrumental solo record called "Plexi Soul" that is available here:
https://tombukovac.bandcamp.com/album/plexi-soul
another is an instrumental collaboration with his dear friend Dean Deleo (originally from the Stone Temple Pilots organization) that is available here:
https://tripthewitch.bandcamp.com/album/trip-the-witch
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March 30th, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Volume 295, Tom Bukovac “Colorado”
Chapters00:00 - Loopin' with the echoing '58 Burst
06:21 - Hello, Homeskoolers'!
06:43 - '58 Gibson Les Paul "Burst" / "Like your favorite restaurante" / Internet transportation of guitars
07:45 - Brett Papa video of Tom and Guthrie in the studio / Guthrie record / Expensive to make a record
08:44 - "Using cowboy chords?" / CAGED
10:00 - Friend wants a 70's Fawn Marshall JMP
10:28 - Selling Marshalls?
11:37 - Best effect pedal company / Electro-Harmonix
12:58 - Talking with Eric "Ebo" Borash
14:04 - Lesson: Loop & "4 Bar Loop" / New Country songs themes (alcohol) / "Colorado" song
Notes
i just did a google images search for "beautiful colorado snowy landscape" to put something pretty in the thumbnail for this video.
i don't know who those people are, but those snowy mountains in the background are just beautiful aren't they?
in this video...Uncle Larry plunks on a 58 burst and gets into some naughty VCB...
"can't forget the way her brown hair catches the wind...shoulda stayed in coloraaaaaadoooo".....
ya' know, something like that for the last bit of the soaring chorus...
and....since we have a lot of new viewers coming along recently...
let me tell ya' how shit works around here...
first off, i NEVER ask anyone to subscribe or "smash that like button"....
if you do indeed learn some useful stuff from this channel and feel like it is indeed helping you as a player, all i ask is that you just throw a little something in the tip jar...especially since it's tax season ferchrissakes
You can make PayPal donations to this address:
tombukovac@gmail.com
You can make Venmo donations to this address:
@Tom-Bukovac-1
a person could potentially purchase a myriad of Homeskoolin' related merch..including several different extremely comfortable and nice feeling T-shirts and some beautifully constructed coffee mugs for those afflicted with thin lips...i pride myself on having the comfiest t shirts on earth...no scratchy bad fitting horseshit here people.. check it out at
https://dvg-inc.shoplightspeed.com/merch/tom-bukovac/
AND....believe it or not....i have a new website people....an actual proper website.
https://thesessionman.com
You can see all kinds of weird old photos there, you can also purchase a download of the live concert i did last December if you like.
A lot of these very same new viewers don't seem to know that Uncle Larry made a couple records that they could potentially listen to... one is an instrumental solo record called "Plexi Soul" that is available here:
https://tombukovac.bandcamp.com/album/plexi-soul
another is an instrumental collaboration with his dear friend Dean Deleo (originally from the Stone Temple Pilots organization) that is available here:
https://tripthewitch.bandcamp.com/album/trip-the-witch
March 29th, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Volume 294, Tom Bukovac, “The Waiting List”
Chapters00:00 - Strumming along
00:40 - Hello / Enjoy the Spring / Thanks
01:45 - Tuning at 432hz
02:36 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Finances / Pool rental for guitar lessons
03:45 - Funny story about neighborhood gym / Swimming pools available
05:55 - Lesson: Unique vs technique (band members comparison to session members)
13:30 - Clean up on eisle 7 (detail work)
15:00 - Session work
Notes
Uncle Larry answers some thought provoking VCB questions…
March 28th, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “Trucker Speed”
Chapters00:00 - Some great ole Blues
Notes
Uncle Larry has a go with an old broken headstock 65 Epi Olympic that he bought at the guitar show on the cheap….i was out of MCB bridges so I threw an old Badass bridge that i found in the parts drawer on there….it ain’t no MCB but it works ok.
Hope you enjoy friends
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March 27th, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Volume 293, Tom Bukovac, “Upstroke Me”
Chapters00:00 - Changing the stroke on the doubleneck
06:58 - Hello, friends! / Update
07:45 - Baltimore bridge crash / Life perspective
09:18 - Sitar effect / Melatron
10:11 - Gibson Doubleneck
10:34 - Ann Wilson thanks (video)
11:12 - "Life change after 100,000 subscribers?" / Heavy sessioneering
13:20 - Lesson: Upstrokes
14:08 - Lesson: Loop chords (G D F C)
15:28 - Lesson: Upstroke chord (x x 5 0 3 3]
16:21 - Upstrokes vs. Downstrokes
Notes
Uncle Larry says two necks are better than one….could be a winner but maybe just a sinner now….
here's that video about making Ann's latest record...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dlor1o5r2g
and...if you need something cool to put your coffee in try this friends...
https://dvg-inc.shoplightspeed.com/tom-bukovac-homeskoolin-mug.html
March 26th, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Inner Mounting Cleveland”
Chapters00:00 - Trance, sitar-like guitar
01:21 - The holy temple of Marshalls
Notes
Awaken…with Uncle Larry…
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March 23rd, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Guitar Show!!”
Chapters00:00 - Plucking and singing
00:22 - Hey friends! / Dealer day in Nashville
Notes
Check it out today and tomorrow friends
At the AG CENTER in Williamson county
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March 21st, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Volume 292, Tom Bukovac, “Fresh Out Da Bed”
Chapters00:00 - Testing out the Junior and letting it ring out
04:40 - Hello, Larry! / Fresh out the bed / Thanks for 100k subscribers / Buk-o-Vac / New mugs
06:00 - 4 years to the day - 100,000
06:30 - Ticketmaster situation for Weezer / Appreciation for Homeskoolers / Road trip?
08:03 - '57 Gibson Les Paul Junior
09:04 - Try that chord see how it sounds
09:20 - Packing material trick / Open the bottom of guitar box first
10:50 - Brett Papa work
11:01 - In tune chord [0 11 x 13 14 14] (E69)
11:34 - "Whatcha been listening to?" / Sly and The Family Stone
13:07 - "Whatcha been watching, Larry?" / "What Went Wrong"
Notes
Uncle Larry explores the deepest crevasses of a 60 junior he just got….and gives ya a life hack that you might actually use.
new coffee cups!
https://dvg-inc.shoplightspeed.com/tom-bukovac-homeskoolin-mug.html
and if you have never heard this total awesomeness, you're welcome...the funkiest, blackest shit EVER recorded by human beings on this planet if ya ask me...
dig the guitar/horn stabs in the verse...how the FUCK did they do that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6xhSqz_4m8
March 21st, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Volume 291, Tom Bukovac, “Greenville Blues”
Chapters00:00 - Monte Carlo driving into setup video
02:15 - Studfinder didn't fit / 100,000 subscribers
03:20 - Weezer
08:52 - Gibson Les Paul Jr is in tune
10:07 - Nik Drusel and Music City Bridge what guitars will work
Notes
Uncle Larry throws a stud finder on a recently acquired 1960 LP Junior....
if you have questions about what bridge to get for your guitar, email Nick at
howdy@musiccitybridge.com