April 21st, 2020
Homeskoolin' Volume 12, Tom Bukovac, "First Month's Free"
Chapters00:00 - Beatles intro / talk
02:14 - I would like to acknowledge
02:49 - Viewer Comment Bin
03:00 - Donations and thanks
05:06 - Guitar House / Rolling Rock
05:20 - Nashville number chart (vi IV I V )
08:43 - Learned from musicians in sessions
09:39 - "Because the song sucks"
10:56 - "Power of stupid"
13:20 - Certain devices in music
16:50 - Lesson: Beatles, I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
Notes
OK guys total honor system here....Paypal tombukovac@gmail.com if you've gotten something useful out of all these pitiful videos and you wanna put something in the old beer money tip jar
April 20th, 2020
Homeskoolin Volume 11, Tom Bukovac, “The Power Of The 5 Minor”
Chapters00:00 - Intro sad jam
02:40 - Guitar House
03:00 - Coolest viewers
04:02 - Monty Python reference
05:15 - Gear talk
06:56 - How sessions work
10:45 - Make session magic
13:20 - Tom's material / lesson
14:42 - Blues over major: "I don't fuckin' like it at all"
Notes
A brief chat on the strange elusive power of the “Coldplay chord”
April 18th, 2020
Homeskoolin’ Volume 10, Tom Bukovac, “Bed Heads & Rotors”
Chapters00:00 - Intro space jam
02:15 - Welcome
02:40 - Yamaha RA-200
06:52 - Shoegazer chords lesson
11:10 - Whammy bar pet peeve
Notes
A brief examination of my all time favorite piece of rare and esoteric musical equipment, the Yamaha RA-200
April 17th, 2020
Homeskoolin’ Volume 9, Tom Bukovac, “Blues & Dank Nugs”
Chapters00:00 - Intro jam loop
03:11 - Welcome the lovely day
04:11 - Viewer Comment Bin
04:30 - Talk about gear
05:26 - Billards / gear
06:11 - Love of the 335
08:27 - Replacement stoptail LP Special
10:25 - Sarah Buxton songs
11:21 - Stop gear buying?
12:35 - Hard-ass attitude
13:13 - Trust people / pain
14:08 - T-shirts
15:16 - Marijuana use
17:17 - Two chords lesson
Notes
Two chords and a brief chat on weed.
April 16th, 2020
Homeskoolin’ Volume 8, Tom Bukovac, “Workingman’s Bread”
Chapters00:00 - Jerry Garcia intro riffage
01:51 - Magical properties / Dickie Betts
02:54 - New logo / Farmland
03:43 - Reader Comments
04:44 - Secret in 4th finger
06:27 - Not selling something
07:38 - Modeling amps and quitting
08:40 - Hard on oneself
10:32 - So much to learn / Ted Greene
Notes
A brief chat on human nature.
April 15th, 2020
Homeskoolin' Volume 7, Tom Bukovac, "An Old Southern Joke"
Chapters00:00 - Intro jam
01:47 - Reader Comments
02:43 - Don't rush things
03:53 - Music store / Southern joke
08:13 - Behind the pocket
09:20 - Role Model?
10:09 - Tom is my kittens
10:57 - Go For It
12:02 - Mean It / No Second Guessing
12:36 - Trivia
14:16 - Play like personalities
Notes
More than a joke really....actually an approach to life and music....plus some TRIVIA!! The very first Firebird ever made (no shit, prototype 1962) through a little tiny Gretsch shit box.
April 14th, 2020
Homeskoolin’ Volume 6, Tom Bukovac, Hillbilly Pickin & Contest Results!
Chapters00:00 - Hellbilly Intro
01:51 - Welcome
02:30 - Contest winners
03:54 - Reader Comments / Trigger Hippy
06:09 - No back problems / hearing loss (tinnitis)
07:32 - Country guitar players
08:41 - Phil Baugh
09:11 - "Douchey and Uninspiring" / "Fuck-off"
09:37 - No Corporate Sponsorship / Pitiful Little Show
09:55 - Old Blues turnaround lick
Notes
Congrats to Luke Cyrus Goetze...thank you to all participants!!! Trigger Hippy has a new album called "Full Circle and Then Some" available now...check it out!
April 13th, 2020
Homeskoolin’ Volume 5, Tom Bukovac, “More Fool Me”
Chapters00:00 - Intro (Phil Collins)
01:21 - Song
Notes
One of my alltime “favourite” bits....featuring Sarah Buxton on lead vocal
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 10th, 2020
Homeskoolin’ Volume 3, Tom Bukovac, “Train-Kept-A-Memphis”
Chapters
00:00 - Mean intro jamming
03:43 - Important discussion about bread
05:15 - Little lick lesson
07:17 - Little lick lesson 2
08:45 - Blues lick lesson (proper Sports Bar)
10:00 - Joe Walsh
10:49 - Pick Scrapes (Van Halen)
11:57 - Blues lick lesson 2 (Piano rip off)
14:35 - Noisey P90s
Notes
A discussion on bread and some semi-usable sports bar blues licks...filmed yesterday. Solid korina guitar my buddy made for me, with old Dimarzio Super Distortion plugged into an old Gretsch 6161 combo amp.