June 18th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 464, Tom Bukovac, “Hillbilly Swamp”

Chapters
00:00 - Country swing
01:56 - Hey friends! Chicken pickin' in
02:37 - Thanks
03:35 - 80s Ibanez Roadstar for sale
07:00 - Liza Jane / Jedd Hughes
07:42 - Brent Mason solo amazement / Video setup / Bounce / Hybrid picking
10:26 - Lesson: Bouncing fingers on the neck
13:12 - Demonstration of bouncing
14:03 - Lesson: Accents
19:38 - Video Lesson: Liza Jane solo


Notes
Uncle Larry shows ya how to play some rhythm guitar

Brent Mason shows ya how to play a fuggin bad ass lick

June 7th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Road Update, “Savannah Banana”

Chapters
00:00 - Plucking in a hotel
01:48 - Lesson: Lick you should know
02:38 - Savannah Georgia with Vince Gill update
04:07 - Greg Koch
05:15 - June 6th course technical difficulties
05:54 - Road hacks (shampoo, etc.)


Notes
Uncle Larry checks in from his hotel room with his phone sitting on the desk propped up by a banana…pretty high tech huh?

You do know that you are never supposed to bring a banana on a fishing boat right?

June 2nd, 2025

Homeskoolin' Volume 459, Tom Bukovac, "The Bubble"

Chapters
00:00 - Country swinging
01:48 - Hello StringLocker / Home is ultimate hotel / Being on the road
04:46 - Bringing kids out on the road
07:37 - Dann Huff record / Keith Urban / Miles of Ass
09:27 - 3rd & Lindsley
10:18 - '64 Guild Dwayne Eddie
16:00 - Robert Keeley is a sweet guy
18:26 - YouTube wormhole / Vietnam Turning Point
19:51 - Madeline Kahn
21:00 - Guitar parts work good together


Notes
Uncle Larry reflects on the weeks events and shows the Homeskoolers some recent kills from "The Great Blood Soaked Guitar Finding Orgy of 2025"

i do realize that the link to sign up for the email course has been broken for a few days, we are working on it, please stand by

here is the link to the amazing new Dann Huff record...
https://bakedalaskarecords.com/collec...

here is the link to the Nick Govrik record release show that will also feature Guthrie, Jedd and myself on June 27th at Third and Lindsley....it is almost sold out
https://www.vividseats.com/nick-govri...


it is rumoured that Uncle Larry might get up and play a couple tunes with Greg Koch at the Analog Room in Nashville on June 4th, but these rumours cannot be confirmed nor denied

May 23rd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 453, Tom Bukovac, “Milwaukee Talkee”

Chapters
00:00 - Strumming away
01:20 - Hello from Milwaukee / Laverne & Shirley / Vince Gill update


Notes
Uncle Larry with another road update from the great state of Wisconsin

Apparently we are only at 3k people that have signed up on the mailing list at
maximumlarry.com/course

I am heartbroken….

I do and do for you guys, but only 3k of you have signed up ?

May 21st, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 452, Tom Bukovac, “Gold Tooth Display”

Chapters
00:00 - That Dean sustain
01:23 - Hi, friends / Ebo Reverb for preamp
03:15 - Lesson: Chord that no man should be able to play [25 5 4 4 2 0] Dmaj7913
03:48 - Vince Gill power trio
04:11 - Dean Cadillac
05:00 - Tal Wilkenfeld / Freaky brains
07:00 - Duesenberg Multi-benders
09:24 - Yngwie Malmsteen
12:24 - Maximumlarry.com course
13:17 - Lesson: Crazy lick
14:41 - Middle pickup on guitar vs bass
17:00 - Thanks
18:30 - Gretsch 6161 amp / Trade bait ES-330 for Bubba


Notes
Uncle Larry rambles a bit on this fine Wednesday....special thanks to the boys at Gruhn's for dialing in this old Dean Caddy....it's on fuego now

The thumbnail depicts the first of many bumps and bruises that the new Hellcat will be sustaining over it's next few years of rigorous speed testing on the poor helpless streets of Nashville Tennessee

so, do you guys think that Gus could play what happens starting at around 2:47 of this video?
Alcatrazz - Yngwie Malmsteen

i might have just been a dream, but i think i may have heard Gus play something similar to this one night at a mind blowing Chinese buffet gig in St Lous when he was doing music from his seminal instrumental heavy metal album "Master Of Peepees"

May 17th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 449, Tom Bukovac, “Northeastern Flyer”

Chapters
00:00 - Beautiful Old Times music
02:43 - Hey friends / Vince Gill
03:26 - Lesson: C9aug into a C69
03:45 - Brother Doug
04:55 - Playing / Music Theory / Kurt Cobain in a Western Swing Jam
06:48 - Guyatone PS-023 Chorus Flanger (Jedd gifted pedal)
08:00 - Western Swing
09:09 - Pretender in life / What you spend time on
09:58 - Redd Volkaert
11:33 - Whit Smith
13:10 - Lesson: Inversions / Playing over changes
14:57 - Lesson: Right or Wrong tune (chord progression) / Playing over
18:06 - YouTuber Rob Chapman / 1975 Strat and Tele
20:36 - Mailing List / Uncle Larry course
22:03 - Echoplex dying
22:42 - Clint Strong


Notes
Uncle Larry publicly apologizes for trying to play some western swing last night....

I'm still 6 foot 2, but I’m down to 226 on the scale this morning friends…slow and steady…12 pounds down from my fattest moment about 4-5 months ago

My diet motto:
“All meat and veg, and no carbs except Yuenglings”

Try it friends....it’s slow, but it works and it’s REAL weight loss…not that fly by night temporary weight loss you see on the last night infomercials

Get the burger, but just don’t eat the bun.....you don’t even miss it after a while.

check out this shit awesome shit...
• The Western Flyers with Redd Volkaert & Wh...

and if any of you kids out there can play the shit that happens starting at about 61 minutes into this video, then you are watching the wrong channel:
• Guitar Lesson - Clint Strong - Mastering J...

and here is the link to enter your email in, so you get half off my upcoming course:

May 9th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 443, Tom Bukovac, “John Wilkes Barre”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing
02:50 - Wilkes Barre, PA / Early days in Rust Belt
04:20 - '48 Gibson Southern Jumbo
06:16 - Jedd Hughes / Vince Gill update
07:19 - '48 Gibson Southern Jumbo / Bad D string
08:55 - '85 Kramer Beretta with Floyd Rose "E" Series
11:33 - Setting up for the concert
11:55 - Wandre Roby guitar
14:38 - LiquiSlide


Notes
The first of many summer updates from the road…
that will inevitably depict a completely over the top blood soaked epic orgy of guitar purchases over the next couple months that can potentially be of some use to you fellow Homeskoolers…

May 6th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 441, Tom Bukovac, “Joggers In The Fog”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing
03:45 - Hello, friends
04:52 - Morning check-in / VCB (Viewer Comment Bin)
06:00 - Diane Warren song (Taylor Dayne)
08:37 - Lesson: Playing
10:10 - Vince Gill / Playing songs like an apple
12:42 - Durango Hellcat
13:27 - Tinnitus?
14:15 - Parent a grown ass man
15:22 - Playing


Notes
Uncle Larry answers some VCB before shuffling off to the mill.

May 5th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 440, Tom Bukovac, “The 5th Of May”

Chapters
00:00 - One of those great tangents
08:29 - Hi friends / Fender Vibro Champ Reverb
11:11 - EVO SRO (Electro-Voice)
12:00 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Bought a Hellcat Durango
12:57 - Liqui Slide
13:15 - Strymon Timeline
14:16 - Boss SDE-3000
14:45 - Hotel rooms and Dodge Durango Hellcat color (Destroyer Gray)
15:38 - The Essential Craftsman (YouTube channel)
17:42 - Play with humor and grace / Like a little bit of mess
19:00 - Vince Gill rehearsals


Notes
Happy birthday Bub!

if you guys like rock and roll, you can always throw something in the tip jar
my PayPal is tombukovac@gmail.com
my venmo is @Tom-Bukovac-1

and totally unrelated...how crazy is this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9u5xUFEDQQ

May 4th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 439, Tom Bukovac, “Swang”

Chapters
00:00 - One Hour Photo loop with slide over it
02:54 - Ungraceful dismount
04:40 - Slide
11:44 - Checking in / Solo over the depressing loop / Vince Gill rehearsals
14:30 - Pedalboard used to use with Ann Wilson
14:52 - Loathe the Strymon Timeline
15:40 - Nashville Guitar Center and meeting a fan in public
17:25 - Lesson: Looking to play some Swang
19:05 - Lesson: "Sure I'll take you home" lick
20:26 - Lesson: Goofing around lick
21:05 - Lesson: "Sure I'll accompany you back to your hotel" picking all 5 fingers lick (F13 [1 x 1 2 3 1])
22:25 - Lesson: Pull off in F is even cooler


Notes
Uncle Larry plays some depressing slide and then gets into some nasty western swing licks you can teach your grand kids some day

…and totally unrelated, this is sooo my new favorite YouTube channel....i fuckin' LOVE this guy

he's a total bad ass master craftsman with a zillion subscribers on YouTube...
i'm not even a builder and i have already learned so much from watching his stuff.
on a more sentimental note, i chose this video of his to show you first because i love the reverence he has for the great people that built this amazing country

this shit is right up my alley friends
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icMOxBm7NsU

April 25th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 429, Tom Bukovac, “No Singer Left Behind”

Chapters
00:00 - Acoustic playing
02:26 - Hi, friends! / Working
04:46 - Helping others make records
06:03 - Gibson J-200 / Recording mojo / Changed out bridge
08:05 - Nashville resources
09:11 - Donnie Iris - Ah Leah / Producer Mark Avsec
13:46 - Keith Whitley - Don't Close Your Eyes / Transcendentally out of tune / Garth Fundis
18:25 - Pro Tools
22:36 - Working on something truly unique / Freddy Mercury
24:55 - Pet Sematary (movie)
25:54 - Vince Gill / Jedd Hughes


Notes
Uncle Larry lays out the AGE OLD moral dilemma of that dark world where technology, creativity and music meet.

April 9th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 425, Tom Bukovac, “This Week In Rock”

Chapters
00:00 - All over the neck
06:56 - Hello, friends! / Cracking that first beer / Playing
09:00 - Working week / Being the older session person
12:40 - Wynonna Judd
15:55 - Vince Gill
16:50 - Nick Gorvik release


Notes
Uncle Larry reporting in with a very busy week in show biz.

….and for your entertainment…here is one of the greatest moments in human history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qN6HN5TGn0

March 31st, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 419, Tom Bukovac, “Human Steak”

Chapters
00:00 - Plucking away some tunes
04:08 - Jedd Hughes birthday
04:49 - Lesson: Vince Gill lick
05:32 - Lesson: Brett Papa and the I IV V (one four five)
07:10 - Tornado warning
07:42 - Rare video mix
09:50 - Dann Huff
12:01 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / When a guitar player doesn't have it
12:41 - Music and sex and banging human steak
16:06 - Happiest you've ever been (20s vs 50s) / Cred
23:05 - '65 Fender Stratocaster Lake Placid Blue


Notes
Uncle Larry puts on some rubber boots and wades out into a sewer back up of messy VCB

March 22nd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “387 Amigos”

Chapters
00:00 - Some 60's song
01:24 - Hello, friends! / 3 video of the day / Vintage guitar show / Big names
02:25 - Tommy Emmanuel
03:18 - Gibson ES-330
04:34 - Bring P90 bridge pickup up / shims
05:12 - Bridge vs Neck pickup
05:37 - Playing / Shredding / Beatles montage (05:58)
07:00 - Vince Gill tour
07:50 - Playing: The Cars - Moving in Stereo


Notes
Strictly a public service announcement to encourage you to get your ass down to the big ass vintage guitar show tomorrow at the Williamson County Ag Center

You’ll miss these shows one day friends

August 9th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Time Travel…1963”

Chapters
00:00 - Medley of everything from Beatles to the Flintstones
03:25 - Hello, friends!
03:45 - '63 Fender Telecaster / True Vintage / Frets & white case
05:50 - Guthrie Trapp gigs
06:12 - Vince Gill thank you at the Ryman
07:29 - In Studio with Cheap Trick


Notes
Uncle Larry displays a recently unearthed new old stock 1963 Telecaster and gets a little swampy with an old Beatle classic …even going as far as to change the title to “I Sawed Her Standing Hair”

August 5th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “The Hippie Strum”

Chapters
00:00 - Vince Gill gig up-close footage strumming away


Notes
Here’s an inside look at what is REALLY happening in the rhythm guitar engine room on these Vince gigs at the Ryman.

My dear mate Jedd Hughes and I are trying to make some comfy beds for the boss man to do his thing over all night long

These are also both good examples of the “hippie strum” on a jangly electric that I have basically worked my entire life to try to perfect…

so much harder than it sounds to make the hippie strum feel legit with the exact amount of jangle and just the right shimmer tone.

I’ll let you know when I get there.

August 1st, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Lord Loves A Workin’ Man”

Chapters
00:00 - Building some Blues
01:56 - Hello dear friends! / Checking in / Hot outside
02:54 - Vince Gill gig at the Ryman
03:17 - Julian Raymon (producer) garage sale
04:21 - Nashville commute to Cleveland delivery driver
05:10 - '65 Gibson Firebird I
05:45 - Guitar vault cartage
05:58 - Signing vinyl records (Guthrie Trapp & Tom Bukovac)


Notes
I forgot to mention one thing on my housekeeping list…I’m currently searching for a bad ass bug guy in the south Nashville area.

we used to call them “exterminators” in the old days but we can’t use that word anymore because the insects thought it was “insensitive”

Anyway, I need a bug NINJA…not just some big corporate bullshit company that gives everyone the same bullshit corporate treatment…I want some PERSONALIZED service…a guy I can text or call directly …a guy who is PASSIONATE about killing bugs

If anyone out there has has a REALLY good experience with any exterminating company PLEASE let me know

July 31st, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Men At Work”

Chapters
00:00 - Vince Gill rehearsal footage


Notes
Jimmie Lee Sloas and I are old war buddies…..we have been in the trenches together for decades…literally hundreds of sessions…everything from terrible demos to classic hit records…we have done it all together.

the love i have for this boy cannot be measured

Jimmie is “ordained” in Nashville…he is on a very very short list of people that you will NEVER EVER IN A MILLION YEARS hear anybody talk shit on…

and if you ever DID hear someone talk shit on him, you would IMMEDIATELY know that that person is a total asshole and cannot be trusted for anything

This is not my opinion friends…this is FACT

July 31st, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus, “Who’s On Burst?”

Chapters
00:00 - 3 of the finest guitars on planet Earth.
01:14 - Vince Gill's 1959 Les Paul - Neck pickup
02:10 - Option B - Neck pickup
03:07 - Option C (1958) - Neck pickup
03:57 - Vince Gill's 1959 Les Paul - Neck pickup 2
04:42 - Option B (1959) - Neck pickup 2 (Lightest one in weight)
05:29 - Option C (1958) - Neck pickup 2
06:06 - Option C (1958) - Bridge pickup / B-string D note
07:22 - Option B (1959) - Bridge pickup
08:22 - Vince Gill's 1959 Les Paul - Bridge pickup
09:10 - "This shit makes me nervous" - Jedd Hughes / Second time around - Bridge pickups
09:52 - Option ? - Bridge pickup
10:46 - Option ? - Bridge pickup
11:25 - Neck shapes? / Bridge pickup
12:23 - Vince Gill's 1959 Les Paul - Bridge pickup
13:13 - Conclusion


Notes
Killin time at rehearsal with some golden age Kalamazoo…talent by Jedd Hughes

Lets hear your thoughts on favorite neck pickup and favorite bridge pickup…cuz we sure as hell can’t say

July 30th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Short, “Office Space”

Chapters
00:00 - Behind the scenes at Vince Gill gig


Notes
Uncle Larry’s cubicle