December 18th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus , “A Night To Remember”

Chapters
00:00 - Old time sound with slide
01:02 - Dann Huff show
03:22 - Day 4 session
04:08 - Rare Rickenbacker


Notes
Uncle Larry reminisces about a magical evening last night watching the Dann Huff band KILLING it at 3rd and Lindsley

Oh…and do you think this video was worth the 30,000.00 the guy charged me to make it? Hahaaaa
Why Should ANYONE Watch Tom Bukovac?

December 16th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 543, Tom Bukovac, “Ten Ways To Sunday”

Chapters
00:00 - Amazing playing as always making that Dean sing
05:26 - Hello, friends / Hunter Flynn
06:03 - Sweet high end on the Dean
09:11 - Marcus King
10:10 - "Does a client ever bring in good parts?" / Session guys vs writer doing parts


Notes
Uncle Larry displays some of the lovely top end sweetness that this old 1980 Dean has on tap in spades.
#dimarziopowered

December 16th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 542, Tom Bukovac, “Hoard Festival”

Chapters
00:00 - Beautiful tunes on acoustic
02:31 - Tuning / NFL
06:50 - Lesson: Chord voicing that's overlooked (E -> E/G# -> A) [4 x 2 4 5 x]
10:02 - Hunter Flynn at Easy Eye Studio / Dann Huff
10:53 - Lesson: Vibrato / Steve Howe's side to side vibrato
12:08 - Pickups hoard / Patent Sticker Gibson pickups / Guild mini-humbucker
13:53 - Modding things / Tech schools
15:00 - Maton acoustic / Piezo
15:48 - Beautiful playing outro


Notes
Uncle Larry shows off his growing hoard of raw old pickups…is this pickup obsession becoming a problem? You decide

oh...and check this out dear friends...GT giving away all the songs that we are gonna put on the acoustic record
Acoustic Sessions-Behind The Scenes With T...

December 15th, 2025

Homeskoolin Bonus Jam “Grateful Shred”

Chapters
00:00 - Churning out some heavy playing
03:13 - Shredding Larry checking in / Easy Eye Studio and Dan Auerbach / NFL
05:40 - '86 Kramer Baretta
06:35 - Rob Reiner news
07:24 - Lesson: Hard sweeping lick


Notes
Uncle Larry wangulates on a sweet old 86 Barretta after a full day of sessioneering and rehearsing with the Dann Huff band for a sweet little gig Wednesday night at 3rd and Lindsley

December 15th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Studio Update, “Easy Eye”

Chapters
00:00 - Easy Eye Sound - Dan Auerbach new studio with a quick rig rundown


Notes
Uncle Larry shows you the coolest brand new studio in Nashville

December 14th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “Free Licks”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing some oldie licks


Notes
Here’s about 80 million free licks you can steal on a Sunday morning

This is a special guitar here friends…an ember ref 64 bird that has been tastefully upgraded to be a monster…not a bad guy to have on your team when you are out in the cosmos searching for something special

December 13th, 2025

Sign in Homeskoolin’ Volume 541, Tom Bukovac, “Kalamazoo Reflections”

Chapters
00:00 - '61 Gibson SG Les Paul
05:52 - Mike Bloomfield about Sunburst Sustain
07:29 - Greg Voros and Julio pickguard for ES-335 / Greg Voros expertise
11:39 - Alan Parker project / Dan Auerbach
24:10 - Playing
29:19 - Compare it to the best bridge pickup ('59 Gibson Les Paul Custom)


Notes
Uncle Larry restrings his dear beloved son Marshall’s lovely old chopper 61 SG/LP and reflects upon decades of wins and losses for the greatest guitar making company in the history of life on this planet.

For your amusement, here's an actual comment i got on this channel a couple days ago from a YouTuber called "620photo" after i posted a free video of me playing my 36 ES-150 with that glorious woody sounding Chuck Christian pickup.

"I used to get excited for these long videos. Where I knew he was gonna play for five or six minutes and talk for 20. Personally, I don't come here to hear him play, even though he is amazing. I come here for his great words of wisdom and great stories. I got excited to see a 25 minute video just to find out it's 15 minutes of playing jazz crap"

welcome to my world friends....i mean, seriously...how do you even respond to something in this "IQ range"?

well... anyway...it is true that 99% of the people that watch this channel are super cool...this fella is clearly a "one percenter"...

so, if you are indeed learning/growing/or just plain being entertained by all the bizarre things that take place on this channel, you might consider placing a little gratuity in the corporate tip jar....all proceeds go directly to Tom Bukovac...(not Uncle Larry)

Paypal is tombukovac‪@gmail.com‬
Venmo is @Tom-Bukovac-1

If you want to see some cool Homeskoolin merch go here friends...nice comfy t shirts with some cool new designs.
https://humbuckermerch.com

December 12th, 2025

Homeskoolin' Volume 540, Tom Bukovac, "Perfect Match"

Chapters
00:00 - All over the fretboard
03:51 - Hello, friends! / Late Friday night
04:20 - Son's '61 Gibson SG Special
05:34 - Jedd and Guthrie record
06:02 - '52 Gibson Les Paul P90 Goldtop / Finding the magic pickup


Notes
Thank you to everyone who helped make this crazy little dream of putting an old mini humbuck in the bridge of my sweet old featherweight 52 goldie a reality

Nick Drushel
Bubba Sarley
Dave Hinson
Greg Voros
Peter Scajcsik

I TRULY appreciate all of you

December 12th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 539, Tom Bukovac, “Hello Jazzy”

Chapters
00:00 - Looping a song fuckin' bad ass tune
02:32 - "Let's try a bass part"
04:25 - "That should work"
11:49 - Jazzbo Larry / Update
13:23 - '36 Gibson ES-150
15:32 - "You can hear the wood"
16:29 - NFL betting / Fear of God after getting hurt
20:43 - Lesson: Hendrix chord and changing a note / Losing tuning


Notes
Uncle Larry plays some modern jazz REAL early on a Friday morning....while most of his peers are still sound asleep, he gallantly navigates through some severely altered rhythm changes, accompanied by his trusty old '36 ES-150 (which is currently sporting a set of Thomastik flats that Uncle Larry happens to be a big fan of).

in fact, i'll tell ya this friends....if you like flat wounds, and you have yet to try a set of Thomastik strings, you are TOTALLY missing out...

they are, in a word, EXQUISITE

and COMPLETELY unrelated, this video i linked here below here is absolutely AMAZING to me on so many levels...
Severely-Burned Former Firefighter Opts for face transplant

i fucking love this guy...what a warrior.

let us never forget friends....there are people on this earth, walking among us, that know pain that the rest of us literally could not even imagine.

and i'm not talking about "i'm overweight, broke, out of shape, i suck at guitar and i live in my mom's basement at age 48" pain like Gus has....i'm talking about REAL fucking pain.

i have nothing but total reverence and respect for this dude...just trying to do his job and everything goes totally wrong...but he powered through it

incredible

December 11th, 2025

Homeskoolin' Volume 538, Tom Bukovac, "Grady's Blues"

Chapters
00:00 - Melody from the soul
06:49 - Fun sound to play 8| / Instruments making a big entrance in a song
09:42 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / '56 Gibson Les Paul Custom neck pickup P90 (staple pickups)
11:39 - Ella Langley song / "Accounts"
12:44 - Slovenian props
13:10 - "Listen to where the instrument wants to go"
13:59 - "Harmonic Swirl"
14:36 - Huey Lewis and the News


Notes
Uncle Larry takes an early morning ride on Grady Martin's old 50's Danelectro 6 string bass.

just imagine being about 30 years old and being in a band THIS successful and THIS fucking tight....
these motherfuckers had the world by the balls
Huey Lewis and the News - I Want A New Dru...

December 10th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 537, Tom Bukovac, “Stump Grinder”

Chapters
00:00 - Some great raunch and eery slides
09:48 - Radio message through the amplifier
10:11 - Huey Lewis and The News
10:47 - Hello, friends! / Watkins Amp
11:35 - "Then I'd be happy" 8|
12:00 - Acoustic record / Mandolin
13:59 - Greg Koch
15:02 - '56 Gibson Les Paul Custom (Rain gutter tuners, staple pickups)


Notes
Uncle Larry gets his grind on with a little Watkins amp that naturally provides an absolute symphony of swirling harmonics on top of your playing

Man what a party

December 9th, 2025

Homeskoolin Volume 536, Tom Bukovac, “Trust The Process”

Chapters
00:00 - Working with a loop


Notes
Hello friends...this video shows our Uncle Larry fresh home from day one of working on the new acoustic record with Guthrie and Jedd....

in case you were wondering, let me assure you that we are having so much fun it should be illegal....hell it MIGHT even be illegal in some states ..

i thought you guys might also get a kick out of seeing a silly live loop get made right in front of your face....replete with mistakes and all...i mean who gives a fuck?

i usually work all this shit out before i roll the camera...but this time i just let it roll so you can see the whole painful creative process i usually go through from start to finish.

there are more clams in this one video than in the last 5 years of Homeskoolin videos, but thats the whole point friends

i figure we know each other good enough at this point to do something ridiculous like this

if you ARE in fact learning some valuable stuff from these outpourings of guitarautism, please feel free to visit the tip jar:
Paypal is tombukovac@gmail.com
Venmo is @Tom-Bukovac-1

any little bit is MUCH appreciated friends

December 8th, 2025

Homeskoolin, “A Fun Christmas Time Gear Lover’s Special Holiday Bonus Video Spectacular”

Chapters
00:00 - The Cave tour
00:43 - Gear tour (synth, bass, drums, steel)
00:53 - Uncle Larry's rig and new pedalboard
01:21 - '70 Marshall Superbass
02:23 - Diamond Compressor
02:29 - Donald Fagan's MXR Phaser
02:50 - Mick Ronson Wah
03:00 - Full pedalboard
03:15 - Guitars
03:42 - Amps
04:00 - Addendum / All acoustic guitars


Notes
Uncle Larry gives a brief tour of a cool studio called “The Cave” in Nashville TN…it is one of the sub studios of the bigger entity called “East Iris Studios” which were formerly called “House Of Blues”

If you feel like these free videos are somehow enriching your brief existience on this constantly changing planet , please don’t be shy about visiting the tip jar and sending a little holiday cheer to old Uncle Larry

Friends, i SINCERELY appreciate each and every donation, and I am extremely thankful for all the sweet comments/messages and stories you guys share with me…I am truly thankful for all of you …basically everyone EXCEPT that soul-less fat ass Deercreek ….and that talent-free imbecile Combsie…and that brain dead wanker Jizzboy

If you wanna use PayPal it’s
Tombukovac@gmail.com

If you wanna use Venmo it’s
@Tom-Bukovac-1

December 7th, 2025

Homeskoolin Volume 535, Tom Bukovac, “The Boss’s Guitar”

Chapters
00:00 - Hello
01:29 - Vince Gill's '54 Gibson Les Paul
03:29 - A.I. hasn't affected work / Straps
05:50 - New Brett Papa album / New Country star albums / Ozempic and weight loss drugs
07:08 - Humidifiers
08:12 - Collision Devices - Tars and Black Hole Symmetry / NFL
10:58 - Rickenbacker thanks
15:20 - '52 Gibson Les Paul mini humbucker install
19:04 - Do you regret doing any work? / Country version of First Cut is the Deepest by Cat Stevens & Sheryl Crow / John Shanks


Notes
Uncle Larry sets up a cool old chopper 54 Goldie with some cool history

December 7th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “Sleeping World”

Chapters
00:00 - Sliding on home


Notes
Uncle Larry rides on the energy of the huge yellow moon that lit up the sky tonite in my little town.

December 4th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Quickie “New Record Teaser”

Chapters
00:00 - Recording some tunes


Notes
I’m suuuuuuper excited about the new solo record I am working on with Matty Alger and Brett Papa…we are about halfway through it and extremely happy with the results so far

As I have said many times…the power of collaboration is my favorite thing in all of music

Here’s a little half finished snippet of an Uncle Larry classic from the old days that get electrified in 2025

December 3rd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 534, Tom Bukovac, “Osmondmosis”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing
06:38 - Hello, friends! / Marie Osmond and Vince Gill recording
07:51 - Lesson: Only using 2 chords / Outline the chord
09:43 - Products (straps, capos)
11:32 - Lesson: The Claw to grab notes
12:43 - Lesson: Cool Major 7s
14:32 - Major operation on the Goldtop / Mini humbucker put in
15:22 - '70 Marshall Superbass and Marshall Straight Cab / Uncle Larry's Garage Sale


Notes
Uncle Larry recaps a busy session day and plays ya some deep cut stratospheric blues on a 52 goldie through an embarrassingly clean 1970 super bass 100

If you ever wondered if Marie Osmond was a cool person or not, I can tell you for sure without a doubt that she is..

2 more days left to get the course for 179 bucks friends and here are the details
Grab the Course for a BIG 40% Off: https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...
Make sure to use coupon code 2025BF for the discount!

December 1st, 2025

Bachelor Cooking With Uncle Larry (Volume 5)

Chapters
00:00 - Pork roast stew


Notes
Uncle Larry shows you that even a guitar player can make a nice pork roast in the slow cooker

Excited about this one friends

Special thanks to Nicky G for the cooking advice

There are SIX MORE DAYS left to get the guitar instructional course I made a while back for a discounted price of 179.00

Here are the details for the upcoming Black Friday sale of the guitar course my friends:
Grab the Course for a BIG 40% Off: https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...
Make sure to use coupon code 2025BF for the discount!

oh...and buddy jolly strikes again hahaaaaa
A Closer Look at Tom Bukovac's Stalker... ...

December 1st, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Discounted Course Runs Through This Friday Blues”

Chapters
00:00 - Gaining up a 355
00:58 - Hey friends! / NFL
02:13 - Course
02:31 - Marshall Superbass 100W / Ear sensitivity
03:56 - '59 Gibson ES-335 / Offset bridge



Notes
Uncle Larry takes a ride on a temporarily guardless 59 355 and shows off a frustratingly clean 70 super bass 100 that obviously never took a rough ride in the back of a lorry

Here are the details for the upcoming Black Friday sale of the guitar course my friends:
Grab the Course for a BIG 40% Off: https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...
Make sure to use coupon code 2025BF for the discount!

November 28th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “How To Get A Floyd Rose Nut To Not Feel Like Shit”

Chapters
00:00 - Joe Glaser's expertise on Floyd Rose nut
05:17 - Music City Bridge tool (Nut Slot Gauge)
06:43 - Nut file vs diamond saw
07:38 - Surgery begins
09:57 - Using a regular drill for nut surgery
11:03 - Reba McEntire's guitar player story


Notes
Starring the immortal Joe Glaser

This guitar feels sooooooo much better than it did when I gave it to him

Maybe you guys can learn something from this