May 26th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 456, Tom Bukovac, “Days Of Wine And Neurosis”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing and singing / Shed and recording
09:27 - Apologizing to repair guys / Repair to guitars that ruins it
12:39 - Tall frets


Notes
Happy Memorial Day dear Homeskoolers…this video covers a topic that is constantly bubbling just beneath the surface at all times, but is rarely discussed…the great neurosis that paralyzes all guitar players

May 25th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ " A Somewhat Reluctant Garage Sale Of Sorts"

Chapters
00:00 - Climbing all over those chords
05:39 - Video comment, "...string squeaks"
06:20 - Uncle Larry's Garage Sale
07:56 - D28 acoustic guitar
10:37 - Strymon El Capistan


Notes
Email me at tombukovac@gmail.com if you would like either of these devices

6750 for the d28
240 for the strymon…I’ll even sign it for ya if ya want haha


PLEASE go to this site and share your email..if you do will get half off the course that i worked my fucking ASS off making, that comes out June 6 my friends

maximumlarry.com/course

May 25th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 454, Tom Bukovac, “Road Hands”

Chapters
00:00 - Plucking away that old time
03:56 - Hi, friends! / Thanks
05:34 - Road hands
06:15 - Stalker Guy
07:16 - '38 Martin 00-18
09:19 - Satan's SG / Pat Murray put 2 carcasses 1963
10:33 - Lesson: Cool chord G13 [3 x 3 4 5 3] with claw technique
19:57 - Backroom playing acoustic video


Notes
you old veterans out there all know, when you get out on the road and just play play play all day ….your hands just get stronger and stronger.

It’s a cool feeling …”road hands” are a different kind of strength than “studio hands”…a few weeks in I start feeling like I could bust rocks with my left hand

Thanks for watching the progrum friends…im proud of this little community we have built



and if you want a good laugh today, just close your eyes and REALLY try to picture that asshole Gus trying to play this intro on his Cracker Barrel burst in his Chinese buffet blazer…with his 3.99 truck stop sunglasses and Steven Segall haircut hahaaaaa

I’ll give the boy credit, he actually did try for a brief minute to stop making videos about me, but as soon as he took my name out of the title his views tanked even worse than usual….even he was smart enough to figure that out

May 23rd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 453, Tom Bukovac, “Milwaukee Talkee”

Chapters
00:00 - Strumming away
01:20 - Hello from Milwaukee / Laverne & Shirley / Vince Gill update


Notes
Uncle Larry with another road update from the great state of Wisconsin

Apparently we are only at 3k people that have signed up on the mailing list at
maximumlarry.com/course

I am heartbroken….

I do and do for you guys, but only 3k of you have signed up ?

May 22nd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ …..”Goodbye Boss Man”

Chapters
00:00 - Sombre music
02:04 - Goodbye to Jimmy Irsay


Notes
I just wanted to say a few words about a dear friend who moved on yesterday

Jimmy Irsay

The boy had a heart of gold…and some blue and white too

May 12th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 445, Tom Bukovac, “New Frontier”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing
01:57 - In tune D chord
02:14 - Hello, friends!
02:50 - '64 Epiphone Frontier
03:33 - '64 Gibson J
05:11 - Dean Cadillac
05:49 - Dean bridge
07:11 - Dean neck
08:50 - Nut and shimming and intonation


Notes
Uncle Larry learns ya some stuff about guitars

May 10th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Abandoned Kitchenette”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing
06:53 - Hotel rooms?


Notes
Uncle Larry with a road update from Reading PA with a broken bridge guitar

Love can build a bridge

This episode is dedicated to my dear old pal J.O….fellow lover of fast cars and freedom

May 9th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 443, Tom Bukovac, “John Wilkes Barre”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing
02:50 - Wilkes Barre, PA / Early days in Rust Belt
04:20 - '48 Gibson Southern Jumbo
06:16 - Jedd Hughes / Vince Gill update
07:19 - '48 Gibson Southern Jumbo / Bad D string
08:55 - '85 Kramer Beretta with Floyd Rose "E" Series
11:33 - Setting up for the concert
11:55 - Wandre Roby guitar
14:38 - LiquiSlide


Notes
The first of many summer updates from the road…
that will inevitably depict a completely over the top blood soaked epic orgy of guitar purchases over the next couple months that can potentially be of some use to you fellow Homeskoolers…

April 25th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 429, Tom Bukovac, “No Singer Left Behind”

Chapters
00:00 - Acoustic playing
02:26 - Hi, friends! / Working
04:46 - Helping others make records
06:03 - Gibson J-200 / Recording mojo / Changed out bridge
08:05 - Nashville resources
09:11 - Donnie Iris - Ah Leah / Producer Mark Avsec
13:46 - Keith Whitley - Don't Close Your Eyes / Transcendentally out of tune / Garth Fundis
18:25 - Pro Tools
22:36 - Working on something truly unique / Freddy Mercury
24:55 - Pet Sematary (movie)
25:54 - Vince Gill / Jedd Hughes


Notes
Uncle Larry lays out the AGE OLD moral dilemma of that dark world where technology, creativity and music meet.

April 21st, 2025

Homeskoolin' Volume 428, Tom Bukovac, "The Illusion Of Time"

Chapters
00:00 - Some tricky guitar swinging
02:28 - Hey friends! / Playing and singing
03:50 - Hi friends! Take two / Josh Rawlings
04:57 - Gibson J-50
05:51 - Session fuzz bass
06:28 - The Beatles - The Word odd things in the song / "What Makes This Song Weird?"
07:22 - Minor chord over the major chord
08:30 - The bass part
08:49 - Minor vocals
09:07 - The time changes
11:52 - Out of time, but together
13:49 - '56 Gibson J-50 and cool story Keith Whitley
15:44 - Thanks / Eddie Van Halen guitar
17:19 - Sometimes leave the guitar alone


Notes
Uncle Larry talks about time...and great things from Britain...and Kalamazoo...

Editors note...sorry the audio clips from the rubber soul record are "a bit bright" as we like to say in the studio hahaa

April 6th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 424, Tom Bukovac, “Sunday Morning Acoustic Shootout"

Chapters
00:00 - Strumming
01:38 - Hello, friends! / Playing
02:40 - Lesson: Unexpected cool chords
06:25 - '64 Gibson J-50
06:56 - Martin D-28 Age Authentic
10:17 - J-50
11:15 - '64 Gibson J-200
13:14 - The Who and cell phones banned rant
16:05 - '43 Gibson J-45 Banner Head Mahogany
21:38 - J-45 Banner Head
21:59 - J-200
22:24 - D-28
22:50 - J-50
23:22 - Lesson: "What song are we playing"


Notes
Uncle Larry explores the dark corners some sweet old acoustics on a nice relaxing Sunday morning....grab a nice coffee and enjoy the ride.

friends....why do we all have all these different instruments?

is it an obsession? maybe

is it because we never know what song we are gonna be playing next? probably

if you are indeed enjoying this fine Sunday morning sermon, the collection plate is being passed through the aisles

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

April 4th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Studio Trickery, “Lo-C”

Chapters
00:00 - In a session recording


Notes
Here’s 40 minutes of your life you’ll never get back…

One for the hard core Homeskoolers here…

Working on a track for a fella named Danny Anderson…produced by my dear friend Brandon Hood

Chris mchugh-drums
Mark hill-bass
Charlie Judge-keys
Seth Morton-engineer

April 1st, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “King Of The Flat Tops”

Chapters
00:00 - Play that guitar, player


Notes
Good evening dear friends...
since the dawn of country and western music, there is only one guitar that ever earned the title “king of the flat tops” undisputedly.

the Gibson J-200….

any acoustic player knows that these gargantuan jumbos are VERY hit and miss…(mostly miss in my personal experience)

sadly, they rarely ever sound as cool as they look….BUT, when you luck out and find a special one, they can take ya' for a ride that no other acoustic can match

Thanks for watching Homeskoolers

editor's note:
Creeky this might be a good one for you to create a tempo map on, so you can add your Night Court bass sounds and Alesis HR-16 drum sounds...oh, and your muddy high gain slightly out of tune PRS overdubs

March 25th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Star Spangled Banner Heads”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing '43 Gibson Banner Head (logo) Mahogany
02:04 - '43 Gibson Banner Head - Mahogany
02:15 - '44 Gibson Banner Head - Maple
04:00 - Some G stuff
04:20 - '43 Mahogany
05:03 - '44 Maple
05:31 - "Which one you like better?" / Tuner-ette / Difference in sound with clamp on tuner
06:31 - Intonation on '43 Mahogany / Peterson tuner and incredible intonation
08:17 - Intonation on '44 Maple
08:42 - Lesson: Acoustic chord for tuning [0 11 x 13 0 0] E Major
09:02 - Playing: '43 Mahogany acoustic chord
09:32 - Thanks to Music City & Glaser Instruments, and more


Notes
Uncle Larry brings forth a rare comparison between two sweet old banner heads …a 44 maple and a 43 mahogany that just found it’s way into the Homeskoolin universe on the heels of the recent 62 sg sale …

Wood doesn’t matter right?

I

February 27th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 404, Tom Bukovac, “The Thirteenth Floor”

Chapters
00:00 - Restringing Martin D28 Aged Authentic / 12s to 13s on acoustic
02:48 - Genesis
11:44 - Pontiac GTO
15:00 - Gibson ES-335 sold / Cleveland
19:28 - Jacob Colier
21:34 - Playing


Notes
Uncle Larry finally recognizes the errors in his acoustic ways…

This old video kinda went under the radar…the making of “Black Cloud” off the GT TB “In Stereo” record...lot of fun stuff in here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9LDLMlt3Ck

February 26th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 403, Tom Bukovac, “AM Radio”

Chapters
00:00 - Strumming on not so thick strings
01:39 - What's up? / Yuengling
02:14 - Lesson: Underrated chord [x 5 7 0 7 0]
02:52 - Lesson: Another chord [10 10 9 0 8 x]
03:16 - Lesson: Cmin6 same as Fdom7 (same thing)
05:19 - Lesson: Another great chord [x 8 x 8 9 8] / Lipps Inc. - Funkytown
06:29 - Pontiac GTO original radio
07:24 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Increasing profanity
07:53 - "Deep thoughts" - view of the world after YouTube
09:49 - People want to see someone fall or lose / Dave Grohl
11:55 - Bill Burr bashing
13:15 - "Deep thoughts" - Summary
15:00 - Done with 12s and going to 13s on acoustic / Strings


Notes
Uncle Larry delivers the third video of the day…it might be a world record ….

February 10th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Little Red Snapper”

Chapters
00:00 - Light strumming Beatles-esque tunes
03:21 - What's up friends / Thank you for Chicago show
07:03 - Ricky Skaggs and Tony Rice (Skaggs & Rice)


Notes
Uncle Larry back to work after a whirlwind trip up to the great City Of Wind…great sounding room and two nights of the most amazing crowd I have ever performed in front of

Thank YOU Chicago!!

Thank you to my dear friends and band mates…there are no words to express the respect I have for you all

If you have never heard this recording, you are welcome
https://www.google.com/search?q=skaggs+and+rice&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#ebo=0

February 5th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 398, Tom Bukovac, “Banner Head Believer Fever”

Chapters
00:00 - Acoustic creamyness
03:03 - Hello, it's just Larry / Guitar phases
06:38 - Morgan Wallen / Dean Z guitar / Lana Del Rey
08:00 - Session blocks
09:43 - Country Band covers Stevie Wonder - Isn't She Lovely -> "Isn't She Country"
10:41 - Gruhn and Eric Ernest Thanks / Doubleneck
12:00 - Spanish playing
12:34 - Lesson: Cat Stevens song
14:30 - Guthrie and acoustic guitar
16:45 - Son Marshall instructional video
19:00 - Bluegrass music / Different genres of music and making money
20:04 - Acoustic buying
20:37 - Lesson: [x x 5 4 2 2] over E; Pho-Jazz
22:31 - Lesson: Millisecond mute with picking technique
23:10 - Lesson: Playing down by the bridge / Stevie Wonder sound


Notes
Uncle Larry rolls out a new twist on some familiar chords, and also reflects a bit on the many "phases” of a typical guitar player's life…

One very important phase I left out was the “fuck pedals, i’m just gonna plug straight into the amp” phase…which is then usually followed by the “I want to build a giant rack to house all my vintage pedals that I can run off a looper” phase…

it never ends my friends...
well, at some point it actually does end i suppose.

anyhoo, if you guys dig these videos please support the cause

there is a tip jar that you could potentially get involved with....the proceeds go towards the imaginary "Uncle Larry foundation" that exists only in my head...it's sole purpose is to pay for the endless supply of groceries that must be purchased to feed these growing boys.

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

February 4th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “Black Country Ham”

Chapters
00:00 - Some sullen acoustic playing


Notes
Just got home from a lovely evening celebrating GT’s birthday
So nice to see some dear old friends and play some music.
Of course I saddled up and wrote some acoustic shit when i got home.

and totally unrelated, i like this guy, he's got a cool vibe...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbwT3e-z1Bw

February 3rd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 397, Tom Bukovac, “Trappy Birthday”

Chapters
00:00 - Trying out an acoustic and talking about birthday party / Shows
05:11 - George Gruhn enters the picture and a cool bass (George Harrison) / Tons of knowledge coming through
13:45 - Guthrie comparing acoustics


Notes
A little morning visit to Gruhn Guitars in Nashville TN…starring our birthday boy Guthrie Trapp, George Gruhn, Tony Nagy and a pair of ebony rod 43 D-28’s….
hard to beat the sound of that old wood friends