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April 29th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Volume 612, Tom Bukovac, “A Bone To Pick”
Chapters00:00 - Playing beautifully
01:03 - Hello, friends
02:16 - 3 30's Martins and a Gibson J-45 Banner Head ('39 D-28, '39 D-18, '38 000-18)
03:11 - Playing: D-28
04:55 - Playing: 000-18
06:10 - Playing: D-18
07:34 - Playing: D-28
08:50 - Playing: 000-18
09:49 - Playing: Gibson J-45
11:06 - Playing: D-28
12:25 - Playing: D-18
13:06 - Banging on them
13:20 - D-18 banger
13:33 - Gibson J-45 banger
13:50 - 000-18 banger
15:18 - Summary
Notes
Pick your favorite bone from the late spring line-up of 30’s Martins that are piling up at the Homeskoolin’ Industries headquarters nerve center….warehouse…station….place.
These guitars were all built in the same factory within a year from each other, yet they are so COMPLETELY different..I even threw a bad ass old piece of Parsons Street history in there so you can compare that too
April 28th, 2026
Boneskoolin’ Volume 611, Tom Bukovac, “Lipstick Swamper”
Chapters00:00 - Drink cooler / Loula / Getting bored
03:00 - '50s Danelectro U-2
04:15 - Muscle Shoals / Gun Runner hotel / Using guitars on recordings
07:40 - Ella Langley
11:19 - '30's Martins
14:20 - Playing
18:29 - Guild S-200 T-Bird
21:39 - Rick Beato and Peter Frampton interview / Playing into the Beatles
Notes
Uncle Larry reflects on yet another busy week, fresh home from "the Shoals", as the music business insiders say, whilst restringing a tastefully chopped late 50's Danelectro U-2.
Sorry for the blur in this 100 percent absolutely free video friends...as you can already tell, the phone camera was in cinematic mode by accident.... i'll be sure to fire the camera guy.
Check out The Band Loula…great singers with a very cool vibe...sweetheart people...i really enjoyed working with them.
and totally unrelated, check this vid out friends....fucking FASCINATING
April 26th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Bone-us “A Star Is Bone”
Chapters00:00 - Playing the new acoustic
Notes
Uncle Larry gives it to ya on a transcendental 39 bone…one of the most inspiring instruments I have ever held in my hands.
Been working on this song I made up a couple years ago…VERY difficult to play , but it’s coming along and starting to get that natural swing i’m lookin for …music is hard
Other possible names for this episode:
“Bone To Boogie”
“Bone-hemian Rhapsody”
“Sweet Bone Alabama”
“Bone In Love”
“The Bones Are Back In Town”
“Bone Sweet Bone”
“Bone On Loosely”
“Country Bones”
Remember back in the day when you guys used to throw a little somethin’ in the tip jar as a little incentive to keep on keepin’ on with this little channel?
I don’t know what ever happened to those days, but corporate sent a memo recently asking me to ask you guys if we can possibly bring some of that back …
Uncle Larry has Venmo and PayPal
Venmo is @Tom-Bukovac-1
PayPal is tombukovac@gmail.com
by the way, if you guys don't know Maggie Rose check her out, she is awesome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWul49P-a_k
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April 25th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Volume 610, Tom Bukovac, “Bone To Be Wild”
Chapters00:00 - Playing: Acoustic style in the utmost beauty
01:49 - Hello friends! / Gruhn's
04:15 - '39 D18 for sale
05:13 - '57 SJ for sale
11:17 - '65 Gibson Thunderbird
Notes
Uncle Larry randomly accesses memories from his last 10 days of heavy sessioneering and offers a couple life changing acoustics for sale, in an effort to fund his recent decision to buy a 39 "Bone"
Email me at tombukovac@gmail.com if you want to move some money around to greatly improve your personal happiness
Every single person that I have seen pick up either one of these two guitars IMMEDIATELY loves it …and I have some fucking picky friends
April 24th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Volume 609, Tom Bukovac, “Ice Cold Beards”
Chapters00:00 - Back at Gruhn's with the '65 Guild Thunderbird S-200
10:39 - "What is the coolest Guild electric?"
Notes
Uncle Larry visits with the boys at Gruhn Guitars in Nashville TN on a lovely spring day
After a world class refret by Greg Voros, this old 65 Guild S-200 Thunderbird went from playing like a log wagon to being one of the best playing guitars I have.
I am ABSOLUTELY STUNNED by the complete transformation.
Starring:
Greg Voros
Cory Terrell
April 14th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “Southern Strings”
Chapters00:00 - Bringing out the old Senn
Notes
Uncle Larry unwinds after another day in the studio
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April 13th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Volume 608, Tom Bukovac “The Midnight Jangler”
Chapters00:00 - Playing: Duesenberg Double Cat
03:23 - Hello, friends! / No NFL / Double label Yuengling
04:14 - Duesenberg Double Cat used on Joe Walsh tour
07:14 - Lesson: Downstroke vs. Upstroke on a 12 string
10:32 - Last video thanks
Notes
Uncle Larry plays one of the coolest twelve string electrics money can buy , the Duesenberg Double Cat 12.
If you ever wanted a 12 string that feels like a 6 string, here it is friends
Today was day 1 of 4 days of sessions this week working on the new acoustic album that I am making with sweet Jedd and Guthrie
I promise you guys it’s gonna knock your collective socks off …you just watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS9wH3P3pEI
April 10th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Volume 607, “Does Tone Come From The Hands?”
Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Fender Telecaster
05:21 - Hellooo, friends!
06:00 - Playing: Coming up with some Michael Jackson tunes
08:10 - "Killer Chorus" / Michael Jackson and greats making great noises
09:25 - "How do you come up with flow of ideas?"
11:25 - Paul McCartney
11:52 - Lesson: Get a motif going and then start fucking with it / Putting melodies to it
13:30 - "If you don't practice improvising, how are you ever going to get better at it?" / Pre-Internet practice
14:59 - Lesson: Weakness tentativeness
15:38 - "How much tone is in the hands?" = 95%, the other 5% in gear is important! :|
16:36 - The most interesting video - Tonal shading of 10 different individual guitar players
18:41 - Danny Dugmore story about David Grissom and tone from the hands / Gear settings are in the ear
22:56 - Summation / Play the Middle Way (not too much and not too little)
Notes
The age old question that we are all SOOOO sick of finally gets definitely answered Cleveland style.
I even did one of those super dumb thumbnail pictures to match my clickbait video title…cuz it seemed appropriate
April 9th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Volume 606, Tom Bukovac, “Big Band Larry”
Chapters00:00 - Plucking and a pickin' an SG
06:50 - Lynyrd Skynryd - Tuesday's Gone
09:59 - Gibson SG - P90 / Myriad of sounds (Rock, Country, Acoustic, Jazz, Bob Seager)
11:20 - Bob Seager - Baker Street / Michael Buble update
13:47 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Land Rover owners aggro
14:31 - Vince Gill Summer? No.
15:19 - Vox AC-15
16:34 - Band at Keith Urban's studio (Gordon Mote and friends) / Futureman
17:45 - Michael Buble's session with John Clayton
20:28 - Gordon Mote session
Notes
Uncle Larry recounts the last couple days of intense sessioneering with Michael Buble and a bunch of other people that are way more talented than I am
April 8th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Volume 605, Tom Bukovac, “I Wanna Hold Your Man”
Chapters00:00 - Playing: Fender Jaguar
03:48 - Good morning, dear friends
05:20 - Lesson: Beatles move
07:40 - Awards in school
08:32 - Fender Jaguar / Mutes
09:00 - Playing: The Kinks - Lola
10:00 - Guitar Dreams in Scotland / World Traveling / Produce record in Norway / Police
13:24 - Music City Gibson Southern Jumbo sold / Fender Telecaster
14:25 - Vintage guitar affordable / Walmart to pillaging the world / Buying and selling houses
Notes
Uncle Larry takes a break from re-watching Sabrina Carpenter’s “House Tour” video for just long enough to make a new episode of the progrum.
Here’s the link for the Guitar Dreams thing in Scotland friends
https://www.guitardreams.co.uk/guitar...
April 7th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Volume 604, Tom Bukovac, “Uncle Glarry”
Chapters00:00 - '68 Fender Telecaster Custom (brand new)
03:15 - Music Emporium t-shirt
03:39 - Playing: Fender Telecaster Custom through Bassman
Notes
Uncle Larry shows the class an NOS 1968 Fender Telecaster Custom.
Special thanks to Bubba Sarley for the recent additions to the Homeskoolin vocabulary
April 7th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Uncle Larry’s Hot Picks (Volume 1)
Chapters00:00 - '42 Gibson Southern Jumbo
Notes
I’m tellin ya friends …somebody out there should call Music City Vintage Guitars in Nashville and buy this bad ass guitar
42 Southern Jumbo with a ton of excuses and a ton of soul
April 5th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Volume 603, Tom Bukovac, “Easter Lamia”
Chapters00:00 - Playing: Genesis - The Lamia
03:06 - Electro-Harmonix Little Muff
03:54 - '59 Fender Tweed Bassman (40W)
04:20 - Blackface and Tweed together, 3rd voice appears
09:45 - Playing: The Doors - Love Two Times
10:30 - Old pedals tone sucking bypass / Comparing plugging in / New pedals
12:00 - Playing: The Doors - Touch Me
14:00 - Playing: The Doors - Riders on the Storm (loop)
16:00 - Update / Being able to read music
19:00 - Jizzboy
Notes
Uncle Larry sends out a little progressive Easter love for his beloved Homeskoolers with one of Steve Hackett’s most memorable solos…”The Lamia”… from the record that all real Genesis fans just refers to as “The Lamb”
Here’s those cool amp baffles friends :
https://www.speightbaffle.com/products
check out some cool Homeskoolin merch friends
https://humbuckermerch.com/
and i KNOW you guys appreciate a fun Easter egg hunt…so if anyone out there wants to beat the Competition , there might be a certain guitar about to go up on the block …Orange you glad I told you?
It’s not at all like the guitar that dave Mustang played in megadeth in 1968, so don’t start thinking that it is
i keep thinking of a number somewhere between 7400 and 7600 …if you want to guess what that number is email me at tombukovac@gmail.com
and here is the link to the course that is now selling for half its original price friends
https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...
April 4th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Long Distance Go-Around”
Chapters00:00 - Fender go-around belt
Notes
Uncle Larry and friends turns the class on to one of the rarest items to ever come from the corporate suits at post CBS Fender…the Fender Go-Around guitar waist belt
April 3rd, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Volume 602, Tom Bukovac, “Super Clean Reverb”
Chapters00:00 - Playing: Gibson Les Paul Custom
04:15 - Hello, friends / The chord you use when you play funk
05:05 - Fender Super Reverb
05:51 - History of Marshall and Vox
07:00 - Vox amp / House generator
09:05 - "Money is laying all over, just need to pick it up"
11:53 - Jamie French
13:38 - Dan Auerbach studio jam
14:20 - Marcus King
15:00 - Netflix movie about Boeing by Ron Howard
Notes
Uncle Larry keeps the subscribers abreast of current topics.
This is an amazing vid
• Inside Vox: The Bankruptcy That Destroyed ...
So is this
• The Fatal Marshall Scandal: The Corporate ...
Half off the course this week friends !!
https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...
And she’s already got a million subs so she don’t need all my stragglers, but here ya go
@jaimefrenchofficial
April 2nd, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Volume 601, Tom Bukovac, “If 36 Was 39”
Chapters00:00 - Playing: Acoustic
02:39 - Hello, friends! / Morgan Wallen, Dan Auerbach, Michael Buble
05:15 - Lesson: McCartney style acoustic playing / Beatles - Blackbird
09:55 - Playing and singing
10:53 - "Saddest guitar ever" - Gibson J-50
12:34 - Son troubles
14:54 - Lesson: Nice chord Fmaj7add9 [x 8 0 5 0 8]
17:57 - Bryan Sutton and D18
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Uncle Larry teaches ya a very cool fingerpickin technique that you REALLY need to get under your hands.
And is joined at the end by a special guest
If the video isn’t perfectly synced with the audio on the end piece, please try to remember, these videos are absolutely free
March 29th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Volume 600, Tom Bukovac, “Faded Cherry”
Chapters00:00 - Changing strings '61 Gibson SG
05:00 - Taking off pickguard
Notes
Uncle Larry commandeers an old 61 SG/LP from his own son’s guitar stash
Friends, please check out the big sale going on this weekend for my guitar instructional course going on at brettpapa.com
https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...
Half off this time , so if you have been putting it off, NOW is the time to take the plunge
March 29th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Offset America Part 3”
Chapters00:00 - Playing Fender Electric XII
03:44 - The guitar Candy Apple Red
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Uncle Larry shows the class one of the grand ideas CBS tarted out right after they purchased the second best guitar company in the world in 1965.
The Fender Electric XII…replete with offset body, hockey stick headstock, 4 way rotary pickup selector, binding and blocks, and in this case…a lovely candy apple red finish
Friends, please check out the big sale going on this weekend for my guitar instructional course going on at brettpapa.com
https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...
Half off this time , so if you have been putting it off, NOW is the time to take the plunge
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March 28th, 2026
Homeskoolin Volume 599, Tom Bukovac, “Pulled Into Nazareth…”
Chapters00:00 - Stringing an acoustic and talking Kid Rock and putting together unknown players
10:00 - Thanks and update
Notes
Friends, please check out the big sale going on this weekend for my guitar instructional course going on at brettpapa.com
https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...
Half off this time , so if you have been putting it off, NOW is the time to take the plunge
Witness a complete and total transformation that takes place after I get rid of the bullshit coated strings that were on this 39 D-18 and put on a set of Daddario phosphor bronze 013s, as the Good Lord intended .
March 28th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Volume 598, Tom Bukovac, “Steers & Gear” (Starring JD Simo)
Chapters00:00 - Slide playing
24:22 - Lingua with Kid Rock
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Friends, please check out the big sale going on this weekend for my guitar instructional course going on at brettpapa.com
https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...
Half off this time , so if you have been putting it off, NOW is the time to take the plunge
A little chat with my dear old friend JD Simo…
March 27, 2026, day 4 of four straight tracking days out at Kid Rock’s Dixie Ridge studio in White’s Creek TN.
Dan Friszell: Engineer
Gavin: Assistant Engineer
Bob Ritchie: vocals, acoustic guitar and percussion
Amanda Rowland: BGV’s
Shannon Curfman: BGV’s
Herschel Boone: BGV’s
Tim Watson: fiddle
Rowan Stewart: drums
Steve Pierce: bass
Jim “Moose” Brown: keyboards and mandolin
JD Simo: electric guitar
Yours Truly: electric & acoustic guitar, keyboards