June 1st, 2023

Homeskoolin' Volume 223, Tom Bukovac, "10,000 Hour Blues"

Chapters
00:00 - Some intro noodling
04:48 - Hello, class! / Thanks
05:30 - '61 Gretsch White Falcon - incredible guitar / New tail piece
09:18 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / 10,000 hrs. of playing
11:10 - Black Mountain Slide / Ziggy
12:25 - Guitar House shirts
12:47 - Phrasing flows and background track
13:10 - Glorious feedback
13:35 - Movie soundtracks and computer software
14:23 - Steely Dan
17:11 - Modes and scales
17:33 - Lesson: 2 chord loop / Playing over it
20:40 - Lesson: 2 coolest notes in passage


Notes
Larry does the real math and figures out that 10,000 hours is actually just the cover charge that gets you in the door...so you can actually begin learning....

March 16th, 2023

Homeskoolin' VOLUME 200!!!! "A Special Treat"

Chapters
00:00 - Intro 200th episode / Pacifico and wine
03:08 - Homeskoolin' thanks / Dann Huff as a producer
06:18 - Collaboration and dictatorship / No right way to finish line
12:24 - Moment knew when making big
15:45 - Dann's take on guitar tone
18:00 - Dann bought Tom's pedalboard
18:53 - No greatest tone / Leslie West story
21:00 - Van Halen (tuning)
23:15 - Midrange / Small guitar tones
27:00 - Cool Dann story (Van Halen)
30:50 - Bass content with guitars
34:00 - Most genious overdubbing
35:50 - Great guitar tones / Billy Gibbons stories and Guthrie Trapp
38:19 - Great tones continued / Billy Gibbons - Jesus Just Left Chicago
41:16 - Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile
43:08 - 50% more distortion / Distortion and guitar
47:22 - Marshall Plexi tone / Foreigner - Hot Blooded / Greatest power chord Foreigner - Juke Box Hero
53:45 - Roxy Music - Love is the Drug solo
55:55 - That one note of Steely Dan
58:10 - Cooper Time Cube - 100 ft of garden hose (doubling effect) / Joe Walsh - Life's Been Good
63:10 - Steve Miller Band


Notes
One of my favorite humans on this planet

Sweet Dann Huff

August 23rd, 2020

Homeskoolin’ Volume 65, Tom Bukovac, “Cadillac Larry”

Chapters
00:00 - Slow rock intro jam
03:01 - Hello, class!
04:25 - 80's Dean Cadillac
05:20 - Speight custom made baffle
05:52 - VCB / Everything going to be alright
06:27 - Chordal ideas and progressions?
08:12 - Greatest guitar tone? Rolling Stones - Can't You Hear Me Knocking
09:06 - Uncle Larry's Garage Sale / Gretsch 6150T
10:02 - Black Sabbath / Gothic progression lesson


Notes
Hey guys....thanks for reading this....ya know, the stuff i write in here in important to me. First caller wins the little Gretsch 6150T for 550 plus 100 shipping domestic US only....

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August 17th, 2020

Homeskoolin’ Volume 63, Tom Bukovac, “And Your Bird Is Red”

Chapters
00:00 - Intro rockin' jam
02:16 - Hey, cats!
04:18 - Viewer Comment Bin / Rituals
06:41 - Copy right claim
08:04 - Humbuckers in Nashville
10:27 - Rock 'n' roll untamed lesson
11:42 - Speed picking / Thumb angle


Notes
See guys I’m still writing stuff in here...i thought about calling this video “My Red Bird Performs” but i thought that mighta been a little too inside for anyone who’s not from the UK...thanks for watching the show.

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June 23rd, 2020

Homeskoolin Volume 45, Tom Bukovac, “4 and 5 at 7”

Chapters
00:00 - Intro celtic jam
03:32 - Good Morning Class
04:10 - Open strings riffs
04:57 - Trills lesson
05:39 - Key of B lesson / Mark Knopfler
07:14 - 4ths & 5ths / Saddest chord
08:13 - Horizontal layout of chords
09:00 - Tops of chords lesson
09:48 - The 5ths lesson
10:54 - Ego waffles
11:15 - The 4ths lesson
13:14 - Upstroke picking


Notes
A brief ramble on harmony.
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May 6th, 2020

Homeskoolin’ Volume 22, Tom Bukovac, “Hair Of The Dog”

Chapters
00:00 - Intro jam
03:07 - Welcome
04:20 - Pitiful show thanks
05:02 - Viewer Comment Bin / Venues
07:35 - White Mountain Bread
08:02 - Hard alcohol / belts?
09:52 - Firebird loop lesson


Notes
A brief recollection of touring days gone by and more gold from the viewer comment bin. Homeskoolin t shirts available at guitarhouse.net PayPal tip jar tombukovac@gmail.com