April 3rd, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 297, Tom Bukovac, “Bench Bum”

Chapters
00:00 - 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”

Chapters
00:00 - 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

March 30th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 295, Tom Bukovac “Colorado”

Chapters
00:00 - 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”

Chapters
00:00 - 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”

Chapters
00:00 - 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

March 27th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 293, Tom Bukovac, “Upstroke Me”

Chapters
00:00 - 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”

Chapters
00:00 - Trance, sitar-like guitar
01:21 - The holy temple of Marshalls


Notes
Awaken…with Uncle Larry…

March 23rd, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Guitar Show!!”

Chapters
00:00 - 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

March 21st, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 292, Tom Bukovac, “Fresh Out Da Bed”

Chapters
00:00 - 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”

Chapters
00:00 - 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