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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.
April 8th, 2020
Homeschoolin' Volume 1, Tom Bukovac, "Read The Room"
Chapters
00:00 Theme song to Puppy Dog Pals
00:14 Introduction
00:38 Change the name of the show
02:31 What's it like to be a session man
10:09 Piano / Organ Players
12:41 Music lesson
Notes
Exploring the ancient link between a session man and a plumber.
April 7th, 2020
Corona Lessons Volume 22, Tom Bukovac, “Homeschoolin’”
Chapters00:00 - Changing the name of the show
03:13 - Jeff Senn strat
07:18 - Jeff Senn video and people learning
08:10 - Song lesson
09:06 - Breakout of patterns and boxes lessons (gold)
Notes
Deep morning thoughts...reflections on my “dark years”
April 6th, 2020
Corona Lessons Volume 21, Tom Bukovac, “Fake Jazz & Contest Winners”
Chapters00:00 - Loop jamming
02:07 - What's happening?
02:27 - Chord progression lesson
03:32 - Contest results and modification
08:00 - Larry Carlton / Steely Dan
Notes
Lads...I appreciate all the hard work....you guys are awesome....if you didn't make the list PLEASE DO NOT LET IT DISCOURAGE YOU...keep on practicing!!
April 6th, 2020
Corona Lessons Volume 20, Tom Bukovac, "Option Anxiety"
Chapters00:00 - Country-esque playing
02:15 - Welcome to the Corona Lessons / Contest
02:52 - Duesenberg Double Cat / Multi-Benders
05:24 - Bender lesson
09:32 - The subject of "gear" / Tone is in the fingers
10:52 - Old pedal companies / How to decide what to use? / Option Anxiety
Notes
Good morning everyone...don't worry I'm not "poundin' rocks" quite yet...I actually recorded this yesterday afternoon. I apologize for all the noise and constant distractions....family man.
April 5th, 2020
Corona Lessons Volume 19, Tom Bukovac, Lindsey!
Chapters00:00 - Fleetwood Mac - "Never Going Back Again"
00:43 - Welcome to Corona Lessons / Learning Lindsey's song
01:38 - "Never Going Back Again" opening riff lesson
02:22 - Stevie Nicks story
03:52 - Lindsey Buckingham story
06:30 - The feel of the song
07:02 - Picking nails
07:37 - Gig through a computer
08:09 - Fleetwood Mac - "Dreams" song lesson
10:55 - Watching contest videos
11:13 - Greatest/favorite guitar players
Notes
A hack job of “Never Goin Back Again” and a long winded diatribe about the genius of LB
April 4th, 2020
Corona Lessons Volume 18, Tom Bukovac, “Time”
Chapters00:00 - Acoustic playing
00:48 - Hey dudes / global pandemic
01:29 - Viewer comments / fingerboard
01:54 - Chord shapes and patterns / Modes
03:27 - Timing / Click
07:04 - Playing with time is hard!
08:26 - Name your kids after gear
08:43 - Ohio is for prog nerds
09:22 - Underrated guitar player (Ian Anderson) / "Wond'ring Aloud"
11:03 - YouTube video Rob Martino
11:45 - Restraint / Patience and don't deviate
Notes
Time...it flexes like a whore...hey guys I thought I wasn’t gonna be able to do this today because Sarah is making me learn a million songs to play tonite for some online “internet festival” live concert....how fucking weird...I can’t even wrap my head around that.
April 3rd, 2020
Corona Lessons Volume 17, Tom Bukovac, "Touch"
Chapters00:00 - Corolling Rock lessons / Traditional Country playing
02:42 - Howya all doing
03:33 - How to play real Country
04:00 - "Touch" is everything
06:03 - Ways to play a note
07:40 - Play softer and bloom / overload
Notes
I may not have time tomorrow to post another video friends, so here's what we call an "early delivery". Check out the music of the fella I mentioned here Jedd Hughes if you don't already know about him....amazing player.
April 3rd, 2020
Corona Lessons Volume 16, Tom Bukovac “Harmony"
Chapters00:00 - Slow tempo playing
01:41 - Hello, everybody / Thanks
02:12 - Knowing the fretboard
03:28 - Thirds and Fourths
04:20 - Old Vince Gill song
05:04 - Tuning
05:30 - Dave Stewart wedding gift / Blackbird
05:54 - Fifths
06:27 - Beatles - "And Your Birds Can Sing"
07:01 - Joe Walsh story
Notes
Pretty self explanatory here kids...
April 1st, 2020
Corona Lessons Volume 14, Tom Bukovac, "Viewer Homework Contest"
Chapters00:00 - Beautiful, slow playing
02:40 - Intro / Coffee
03:12 - Practicing? / Contest
04:50 - Sessions and Covid
Notes
Well it's been two weeks....you've had plenty of time to work on this shit...let's see whatcha got. I'll pick one winner in a week or so....PLEASE DO NOT GET PISSED AT ME IF I DON'T PICK YOU....i already have enough people that hate me.
March 31st, 2020
Corona Lessons Volume 13, Tom Bukovac, “Session Man”
Chapters00:00 - Nasty blues playing
03:03 - Interruption / Intro
03:37 - PRS "Cleveland" story
04:55 - Sessions and playing
05:35 - Freedom in playing / "Red Light Fever"
07:32 - Aggressive vs safe playing
07:45 - Steely Dan story / Rehearse / Explore
10:52 - Session musicians and experiences
13:18 - Skillset needed to be session musician
Notes
A trip through the triumphs and the horrors of the worlds second oldest occupation.
March 30th, 2020
Corona Lessons Volume 12, Tom Bukovac, "The Two Sides Of Practicing"
Chapters00:00 - 2 chord riffing
01:57 - Hello / Reader questions
02:24 - Videos referred to as Tom Time
02:50 - Fellow session player: How to approach practicing?
05:00 - Listening to how the instruments work together
05:55 - Practicing by really studying good, old songs
09:03 - Muscular part of learning / Dexterity
10:05 - View the fretboard horizontally
11:15 - Know the notes blindfolded / Know real stuff
Notes
Yet another tangent...this one inspired by a question I received about how to practice...this one goes out to you dude.
March 30th, 2020
Corona Lessons Volume 11, Tom Bukovac, “Burnin’ For You"
Chapters00:00 - Shredding
00:46 - Speed
01:23 - Clean picking / Loose arm
02:49 - Exercises
Notes
The most polarizing guitar subject of all...alternate speed picking. Although my musical tastes and interests have taken quite a long journey since my brief flirtation with the shred culture back in the mid to late 80s, I have no regrets about the picking technique i developed during those years. I just sort of stumbled on to this technique on my own when I was a kid. Here’s a couple tips/exercises to show you how I do it. Please note that I always use the shoulder of the pick when i do this.