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April 12th, 2020
Homeskoolin’ Volume 4, Tom Bukovac “The Smear”
Chapters00:00 - Welcome
00:48 - The Smear (Billy Gibbons king) lesson
02:39 - ZZ Top - "Arrested For Driving While Blind" lesson
03:45 - Contrast bass notes lesson
04:12 - Alex Harvey Band - "Midnight Moses"
04:56 - Double-stop bends
05:43 - "Whole Lotta Love" smear lesson
06:41 - "War Pigs" smear
07:21 - Key of G (Edgar Winter)
09:44 - Aerosmith Tune?
10:43 - Play for a minute...
11:20 - Van Halen - "Janie's Crying" lesson
Notes
An in depth look at one of the great natural wonders of the world...the smear.
April 9th, 2020
Homeskoolin' Volume 2, Tom Bukovac, "Required Reading"
Chapters
00:00 Cosmic Minor Jam in 7/8
02:12 Welcome and the sixth note
02:46 "On-Air" Response to Comment Section
03:05 Charles Bukowski / Rod Serling
04:27 2 O'clock Beer Drinking
05:41 Beatles Compilation
06:30 Youth
11:24 Allan Holdsworth
Notes
Reader questions/comments...the power of the sixth note. The intro jam goes out to my dear old friend and fellow prog junkie Dr. Glenn Rosenstein
April 8th, 2020
Homeschoolin' Volume 1, Tom Bukovac, "Read The Room"
Chapters
00:00 Theme song to Puppy Dog Pals
00:14 Introduction
00:38 Change the name of the show
02:31 What's it like to be a session man
10:09 Piano / Organ Players
12:41 Music lesson
Notes
Exploring the ancient link between a session man and a plumber.
April 7th, 2020
Corona Lessons Volume 22, Tom Bukovac, “Homeschoolin’”
Chapters00:00 - Changing the name of the show
03:13 - Jeff Senn strat
07:18 - Jeff Senn video and people learning
08:10 - Song lesson
09:06 - Breakout of patterns and boxes lessons (gold)
Notes
Deep morning thoughts...reflections on my “dark years”
April 4th, 2020
Corona Lessons Volume 18, Tom Bukovac, “Time”
Chapters00:00 - Acoustic playing
00:48 - Hey dudes / global pandemic
01:29 - Viewer comments / fingerboard
01:54 - Chord shapes and patterns / Modes
03:27 - Timing / Click
07:04 - Playing with time is hard!
08:26 - Name your kids after gear
08:43 - Ohio is for prog nerds
09:22 - Underrated guitar player (Ian Anderson) / "Wond'ring Aloud"
11:03 - YouTube video Rob Martino
11:45 - Restraint / Patience and don't deviate
Notes
Time...it flexes like a whore...hey guys I thought I wasn’t gonna be able to do this today because Sarah is making me learn a million songs to play tonite for some online “internet festival” live concert....how fucking weird...I can’t even wrap my head around that.
March 30th, 2020
Corona Lessons Volume 12, Tom Bukovac, "The Two Sides Of Practicing"
Chapters00:00 - 2 chord riffing
01:57 - Hello / Reader questions
02:24 - Videos referred to as Tom Time
02:50 - Fellow session player: How to approach practicing?
05:00 - Listening to how the instruments work together
05:55 - Practicing by really studying good, old songs
09:03 - Muscular part of learning / Dexterity
10:05 - View the fretboard horizontally
11:15 - Know the notes blindfolded / Know real stuff
Notes
Yet another tangent...this one inspired by a question I received about how to practice...this one goes out to you dude.
March 29th, 2020
Corona Lessons Volume 10, Tom Bukovac PHRASING!!!
Chapters00:00 - Hello, everybody!
00:27 - One reader comment to respond to
00:55 - The most important thing in music / Phrasing
02:35 - 100 guitar players play this... / Voice
03:47 - Automatic vibrato vs. conscious
04:34 - Different types of vibrato
06:12 - Amazing Nashville guitarists?
Notes
The key to all music is one thing people....phrasing. I apologize but for some unknown technical reason this video doesn't quite start at the beginning when you first turn it on.
March 24th, 2020
Corona Lessons volume 6, Tom Bukovac, "Pick & Fingers....Nature's Tone Control"
Chapters00:00 - Some incredible playing
02:03 - Lesson: Switch pick edges
Notes
Rainy day blues....don't it feel like we are all grounded teenagers? Well...thank the Good Lord we still have our guitars. Here's one for all the folks who have asked me about my weirdo pick/fingers combo platter....which was developed subconsciously over 42 years of struggling to get shit to sound the way it sounds in my head....
March 23rd, 2020
Corona Lessons Volume 5, Tom Bukovac. the new normal sus chord
Chapters00:00 - Hot damn playing
02:33 - Hello!
03:08 - Why can't we have sus chord and major chord?
03:30 - Lesson: Half-step rub / Demonstration
05:15 - Summation and playing
Notes
Extra bored today, so I'll put up a second vid, no extra charge...plunkin' on an old 63 bird...this one goes out to my guru...Greggor "Bubba" Sarlija....if it wasn't for him I would probably be a hopeless drunk living in a rented duplex in Mayfield dating a Hooters waitress.
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March 23rd, 2020
Corona Lessons volume 4, Tom Bukovac,...Mick "Ronno" Ronson, Ian Hunter
Chapters00:00 - Intro to Mick Ronson
01:14 - One of the greatest solos (Ian Hunter - Cleveland Rocks)
02:12 - Lesson: Playing solo
Notes
Hello everybody....today's lesson takes us back to pre-virus times....Kingston Upon Hull, Ipswich, Suffolk, Surrey, Ditton on the Thames, Charing Cross Road....the glam rock era of the 70's, back when songs had actual chord changes....and furthermore.... This one goes out to my dear friends Eliot and Tobin.... technical notes: 1) if you wanna play along you gotta tune down a half step 2) the amp I've been using on all these videos is something you can purchase for 80 dollars...an old Roland Micro Cube (but you gotta get one of the "good" ones between serial number XZFFHZBY009988874532787996 and XZFHZBY9999900000007865554329986)
it amuses me to no end when people try to judge and compare "guitar tone" by listening to iPhone recordings
Stay well everybody...try to stay sane
March 22nd, 2020
Corona Lessons volume 3, Tom Bukovac, southern harmony & faux slide
Chapters00:00 - Hello everybody / Intro and cool licks
00:48 - Lesson: Faux slide licks and demostrations
Notes
Here's a few riffs you can play if you ever forget your slide at the gig.... thanks for the kind words on previous videos everyone....since playing guitar is basically the only thing I can actually do in this life, i figure this is my small contribution to getting us through the "cris-o-lation" of "the great netflix war of 2020"....
Yes, this situation we are currently in is more fucked up than Harvey Weinstein' genitalia, but i do believe we will get through it and there will be a Renaissance on the other side....also, as soon as this is shit is over, these videos will stop and I'm going to start charging full corporate rate for these lessons...
People have asked about what amp I'm using on these videos...you would die if I told ya.