May 19th, 2022

Tom Bukovac, “I’ve Always Pictured You Wearing Pants (part 8)”

Chapters
00:00 - Ethereal playing


Notes
Guitar is cool

May 18th, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Volume 144, Tom Bukovac, “Uncle Larry’s Garage Sale (High Roller Edition)”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing and singing / Gibson ES-335
14:20 - Contest


Notes
Hello friends…just Larry takin’ a ride on a particularly friendly lightweight chunk of firewood from 225 Parsons St. in Kalamazoo Michigan.

If you wanna taste the rainbow on this one contact Gruhn Guitars at 615-256-2033 and when someone answers just say “yes, uh, i’d like to buy that bad ass 335 you guys have”

May 17th, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Volume 143 Part 2, “The Freaks That Carry Your Luggage”

Chapters
00:00 - Music City Bridge Saavy install and testing
04:30 - Giveaway
05:12 - Comment section / Thanks
07:12 - Epiphone "Melody Maker"
08:30 - Playing / Kelly Clarkson show
09:22 - Lesson: Hammering 2nd onto the 3rd while holding root and 5th
10:17 - Favorite chord (F#m7b6)
12:36 - Lesson: Bouncing bass notes to self-mute
13:20 - Touch and Dynamics / Another special "Fuck-Off"


Notes
Part two of a two part saga showing the eternal happiness that a Music City Bridge product can bring into a person’s life….musiccitybridge.com

and dig this classic:
https://youtu.be/u0R-4F0mzmU

May 17th, 2022

Homeskoolin Volume 143 Part 1, “The Freaks That Carry Your Luggage”

Chapters
00:00 - Music City Bridge Saavy


Notes
Part one of a two part saga showing the eternal happiness that a Music City Bridge product can bring into a person’s life.....musiccitybridge.com

and dig this classic:
https://youtu.be/u0R-4F0mzmU

May 16th, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Volume 142, Tom Bukovac, “Guitar Is Cool�

Chapters
00:00 - Great playing with a little raunch
03:43 - Lost note / Hello, friends!
04:05 - Tube Echoplex
05:06 - Preamp control
06:30 - Demo without
07:24 - Demo with
08:23 - Comparison talk
09:09 - "Smell" pedal / Candles
10:17 - Volume control on guitar / Fuzz magic
14:07 - Holding guitar neck for sustain
15:20 - Herco pick / Back on the road / Twanging notes on a Tele


Notes
A brief look at “sustain” and “gain structure” and “scented candles for guitar nerds”….

“I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And i can picture us attacking that world because they’d never expect it”

Thanks for watching the channel kids

May 15th, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Silent Lake Placidity�

Chapters
00:00 - Again, beautiful mixture of playing


Notes
A little "live practicing" after i put my sweet sweet boys to bed on a borrowed 64 lpb jag…wow, cool guitar.

May 14th, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Bonus, Tom Bukovac, “OK Card”

Chapters
00:00 - Emotionally beautiful playing


Notes
Another Ambienscape brought to you by Larry…i wish someone could hear all the notes going on in my head that my fingers cannot possibly reach while all this madness is going on.

Thanks for watching the channel…you guys are cool.

This one goes out to my old buddy World's Best Wanker.....i hope he finds what he is looking for in that dark lonely basement of his Dear Ol' Mum's house.

May 13th, 2022

Homeskoolin’ rare gear review, “Tough Guy Delay�

Chapters
00:00 - RE-202 demo
00:58 - Friends! / Gear reviews and demo pedals
01:57 - Roland Space Echo pedal review
02:37 - First impressions
03:57 - Look and features
05:00 - Demo
06:14 - EQ controls / Gain
07:43 - Reverb
09:03 - Tap tempo
09:58 - Saturation
10:44 - Mode selector


Notes
A rare gear review from Larry….filled to the brim with brutal honesty, laughter and tears.

Special thank you to dearest James Hatem and the fine people at Roland for letting me try this cool new pedal…the RE-202.

Please note, this device has far more to offer than i glanced upon in this precursory perfunctory analysis, including a “warp” freak out mode that happens when you hold down the pedal, but i wasn’t emotionally ready to delve into all that in this video.

totally unrelated, these rug cleaning vids have at least temporarily taken the place of old NFL films in Larry's current youtube watch list https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J1EP...

If you like this channel and the weird guy who talks on it, you can throw something in the tip jar via paypal

Tombukovac@gmail.com

May 12th, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Volume 141, Tom Bukovac, “Every One’s A Prototype”

Chapters
00:00 - Intro playing
01:51 - Hello, friends! / Tour
04:00 - Rental gear
04:31 - In Ears vs. monitors
05:00 - Thanks
05:35 - Herco / John Shanks / Gretsch guitars
08:32 - Cmaj7 chord lesson
09:00 - Let notes ring out
09:30 - Em and stacked minor 3rds / Diminished
11:11 - Special "Fuck-Offs" / World's Best Watcher & Arthur Gains (Comments section last 2 episodes)


Notes
Hello friends….ol’ Larry back in the deep south, fresh in from the city of angels. A tour recap and some hot takes regarding crumbling binding.

Paypal tip jar is tombukovac@gmail.com

totally unrelated....this is the coolest video ever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQqur...

May 9th, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Road Update “Lacienega & Melrose”

Chapters
00:00 - Road Update


Notes
Just a quick check in and invitation to the show tonite and tomorrow at El Rey theater in LA to all of you cool people EXCEPT that “world’s best watcher” douchebag. Thanks for supporting the show friends

May 8th, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Updates From The Road

Chapters
00:00 - Road update


Notes

May 4th, 2022

Homeskoolin “Room Service”

Chapters
00:00 - Noodling before a gig.


Notes
Hello all, sequestered in a hotel room on the road with no amp has always been a good Zen way for me to truly “get in touch” with the instrument.
Crude as it is, this is the shit that REALLY matters…because if this “direct connection” from your hands to the source ain’t right, well then whats the point of amplifying it?

April 27th, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam….”257 Blues”

Chapters
00:00 - Beautiful, unexpected chord changes
02:29 - Nashville Musicians Union dropbox


Notes
“Probably the earliest fly swatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick”

April 27th, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Bonus…”Trip The Isolated Witch�

Chapters
00:00 - Breathing new life into musicians


Notes
Hello my dear Homeskoolers….just wanted to let you know about some very cool stuff Dean Deleo is going to be posting on the Trip The Witch Instagram page.

This is one example of some of the actual solo’ed ProTools tracks from the TTW album…you can get a glimpse of some of the isolated sounds, without all those loud drums bashin’ away. Much more of this to come on the TTW Instagram page. Check it out friends.

April 26th, 2022

Homeshreddin’ “Dude, You Call That Music??”

Chapters
00:00 - Nice raunch with some shred playing
04:24 - Hammering on in the early days


Notes
Uncle Larry shreds on an old Dean Cadillac….Cadillac Larry

April 25th, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Late Night PSA….”Black Mountain Ziggy�

Chapters
00:00 - Thumb pick playing
03:22 - Hey guys! / Good day
03:47 - Hinged pick
06:56 - Open strings picking lesson


Notes
A brief slightly out of tune late night exploration on my dear son’s dakota red 66 fender duo sonic….and a little public service announcement letting you know about two things that are available.

check out the thumb pick with a very comfortable and unique “hinged” design that i am using in this video at:
blackmountainpicks.com

AND….i thought these limited edition signed prints were all gone long ago, but ziggy, the amazing artist that drew these, reminded me there are still 21 of them left. Check them out at:
ziggysartstudio.com

He also wanted me to tell you that there is free shipping on these prints.

Thank you guys for taking this class that seemingly never ends… i hope you all know how much i sincerely appreciate the Homeskoolin’ Family. I am always blown away by the kindness and warmth of the comments that i find in the VCB.

Yours truly,
Uncle Larry

April 25th, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Volume 140, Tom Bukovac, “List Of Things To Do In The Morning”

Chapters
00:00 - Amazing playing as always
02:13 - Hey friends! / Writing tunes
03:38 - Time constraint vs experiementing with songs
05:58 - Open tunings
06:14 - Play a song over and over / Tedious long hours
09:41 - Strings / Open G Tuning
11:02 - Lesson: Bar chord, hammer on
11:48 - Lesson: Devilish sounding guitar in Open G
13:45 - Lesson: Zeppelin-ish song for Ann Wilson
14:29 - "It's all been done before" / Clever ways to make it fresh
15:14 - Great story about Reese Wyman / "Every note was new"
08:04 - Lesson: The Devil's lick


Notes
1) breakfast
2) put dishes in sink
3) brush your teeth and fix your hair
4) put your homework in your school bag
5) make sure you have your chromebook laptop AND the charger

And then…get out your ‘38 bone and get to work

Thank you guys for keeping the Homeskoolin’ dream alive….hope you are learning a TON from these videos….have you all visited the night time drop box at the musicians union yet?

Paypal tip jar is tombukovac@gmail.com

April 24th, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Studio Update, “The Amazing Dawgs”

Chapters
00:00 - Session playing


Notes
The crude early stages of trying to fashion some weird random thoughts into some sort of song with Ann Wilson and her band “The Amazing Dawgs” …

Ok, first off, who came up with that name?? and even more amazing is the fact that we all agreed to it…

Tony the bass player has been seriously considering getting the words “Amazing Dawg” tattooed on his arm….but there have been a few threats that the band name might get changed at some point…i personally kinda like it because its just so unbelievably dumb.

I want to sincerely thank all of you guys for watching the channel and for all the kind donations…99.8 percent of you people are absolute sweethearts…

April 22nd, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Volume 139, Tom Bukovac, “Well How Big Ol’ Boy Was He?�

Chapters
00:00 - Passionate swirling playing with a flanger
03:09 - Ibanez Flanger (FL-305)
03:30 - Hey friends!
04:00 - Sessions with Ann Wilson and Tom's new song
05:15 - Collaboration is the greatest part of music
07:48 - Creative people
08:50 - '57 Gibson Les Paul Special and Music City Stud Finder bridge
09:15 - Musician Union drop-box idea
10:15 - Music City Stud Finder bridge
11:13 - Randy Newman - I Love LA
13:00 - I Love LA poly chords lesson / Genesis & Tony Banks
14:40 - Lesson: Bass note with sliding 4ths and little rubs
17:47 - Lynyrd Skynyrd - On the Hunt playing


Notes
A brief discussion on using triads over a single pedaling bass note to create "harmonic tension"

There have been many musical giants who have roamed the earth and conquered long before the time we are in now…we must always listen back and learn from those ancestors who learned/wrote and performed music before “the great distraction” took place.

If you are indeed getting something useful out of the thoughts conveyed in these videos, please support your local public television station with an honor system paypal donation at
Tombukovac@gmail.com
Or
venmo @Tom-Bukovac-1

April 20th, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Session Bonus footage…long form…VERY long form

Chapters
00:00 - Recording session footage


Notes
Wednesday, 4/20…my old dear departed stoner buddy Rick's favorite day of the year….three or four chords and the truth….the truth that being a session man ain’t always glamorous.

Dear Kris Donegan and myself flogging some dual acoustics on day two of a session at Backstage studio in Nashville Tennessee.

Dann Huff producing an artist called Kam Marlowe.

Justin Niebank and Sweet Shawn running the PA…
Stixy Mchugh on drums….Tony Lucido on bass….David Cohen on keys