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July 13th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 474, Tom Bukovac, “Hybrid And Lonesome”
Chapters00:00 - Playing from the heart on '74 12-string
02:55 - Top of the pop
03:34 - Hi friends / Road update / Playing
07:27 - Stream of unconsciousness / Paying to record a song
09:02 - More lessons about hybrid picking
12:33 - Picking out individual notes
Notes
This one goes out to my dear friend Eddy Dunlap…the amazing pedal steel player in my current band
Pop a top for old uncle Larry friends
Here’s the link to my guitar course
https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...
June 21st, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Road Update, “How To Pick Like An English Guy”
Chapters00:00 - Groove playing
01:07 - Hey friends from a hotel room and update / Dwayne guitar
04:34 - Lesson: 4 note claw picking
05:53 - Chirping while finger-picking
07:20 - Sign up for Maximumlarry
08:18 - Meeting some Homeskoolers
Notes
Uncle Larry checks in from Augusta Georgia…a couple hours before soundcheck
PLEASE sign up your email for my instructional course
You will get a discount on your purchase!
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Here’s a link to the Tal Wilkenfeld show on July 18th friends
https://www.3rdandlindsley.com/tm-eve...
Here’s a link for the June 27th Nick Govrik record release party with myself, Jedd and Guthrie
https://www.3rdandlindsley.com/tm-eve...
If you wanna check out the new Nick Govrik’s new album that i produced you can get it here friends
Some really good songs, made with a lot of love
https://www.nickgovrik.com/
June 18th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 464, Tom Bukovac, “Hillbilly Swamp”
Chapters00:00 - Country swing
01:56 - Hey friends! Chicken pickin' in
02:37 - Thanks
03:35 - 80s Ibanez Roadstar for sale
07:00 - Liza Jane / Jedd Hughes
07:42 - Brent Mason solo amazement / Video setup / Bounce / Hybrid picking
10:26 - Lesson: Bouncing fingers on the neck
13:12 - Demonstration of bouncing
14:03 - Lesson: Accents
19:38 - Video Lesson: Liza Jane solo
Notes
Uncle Larry shows ya how to play some rhythm guitar
Brent Mason shows ya how to play a fuggin bad ass lick
May 4th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 439, Tom Bukovac, “Swang”
Chapters00:00 - One Hour Photo loop with slide over it
02:54 - Ungraceful dismount
04:40 - Slide
11:44 - Checking in / Solo over the depressing loop / Vince Gill rehearsals
14:30 - Pedalboard used to use with Ann Wilson
14:52 - Loathe the Strymon Timeline
15:40 - Nashville Guitar Center and meeting a fan in public
17:25 - Lesson: Looking to play some Swang
19:05 - Lesson: "Sure I'll take you home" lick
20:26 - Lesson: Goofing around lick
21:05 - Lesson: "Sure I'll accompany you back to your hotel" picking all 5 fingers lick (F13 [1 x 1 2 3 1])
22:25 - Lesson: Pull off in F is even cooler
Notes
Uncle Larry plays some depressing slide and then gets into some nasty western swing licks you can teach your grand kids some day
…and totally unrelated, this is sooo my new favorite YouTube channel....i fuckin' LOVE this guy
he's a total bad ass master craftsman with a zillion subscribers on YouTube...
i'm not even a builder and i have already learned so much from watching his stuff.
on a more sentimental note, i chose this video of his to show you first because i love the reverence he has for the great people that built this amazing country
this shit is right up my alley friends
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icMOxBm7NsU
May 1st, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 435, Tom Bukovac, “Must Be Present To Win”
Chapters00:00 - Slow playing into funky character
05:12 - Hangnail hello
06:10 - Lesson: Fingerpicking a sick decent
07:50 - Redneck Woman played on
08:06 - '52 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop with p90s
08:36 - Thanks for Dean Z playing
09:20 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Wife's bitching
09:44 - Trying to 'parent' Larry about selling guitar for car / GTO trade
11:40 - Best ES-335 you had
13:22 - Work on my gallop picking / Not Triplet / Correction from son
14:29 - Lesson: Bb7 lurking in that F minor (Fmin6 [1 x 0 1 3 x])
16:35 - Lesson: All the magic is in the VI
17:42 - Lesson: Coolest pedal steel licks
20:00 - Lesson: VI continued [x x 17 16 15 x] (F#min -> Emin -> Dmaj -> C#maj -> Bmin -> Amaj -> Gmaj -> F#min)
21:09 - Lesson: Chord = Recipe of notes
28:22 - Name that song
Notes
Uncle Larry plunks on the retro and answers some blazing hot VCB
September 15th, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Volume 341, Tom Bukovac, “1000 Rainy Days Since We First Met”
Chapters00:00 - Magic arrangements (Police, Sting, Every Little Thing She Does)
03:00 - Sting / NFL Betting
03:50 - Gear setup / Princeton Reverb / Gruhn Versitar guitar
04:44 - Back to magic playing / Picking vs finger picking
06:35 - Police - Bring on the Night vs Sting
07:45 - Gruhn video thanks
08:46 - Lesson: Own version of Sting song / Saddest chord of all time Amaj7/C#
10:00 - Lesson: Tune to frets [2 4 4 2 0 4] (F#min9sus)
11:09 - Greg Voros and PAFs in Dean guitar / "Joint on the lawn of a ZZ Top concert"
12:15 - Fender Twin Reverb
13:00 - "Mint" condition / 1957 Fender Telecaster brand new / Clean guitars
16:31 - JCM 800 and fact checking commentor
17:53 - Dear old friend getting wasted / Getting drunk
19:00 - Gruhn guitars
Notes
Larry gets down with Leslie
Thank you sincerely for the ongoing support of this channel my dear boys and girls
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if any of you guys out there are looking for a REALLLLLLY special 335 you should just buy that clean ass '60 that was in the Gruhn's video yesterday.
I mean holy SHEEPSHIT that thing is killllllller....
Featherweight...
Perfect neck....
you heard it.
it's 70K, which is a lot of dough....but you could potentially get it if you sold all your current guitars....
that would be a lot of work and a major pain in the ass...but trust me on this friends, if you actually DID it, it would be the smartest move you could ever possibly make....
this is the only guitar you would ever need or want to play.
i would buy it myself if i could swing it....i also really like that red '63 i currently have so it's not EATING at me....but i'm just telling you guys straight up, if you have been looking for a fucking MAGIC old guitar, there it is.
August 14th, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Western Bonus “Swangin’”
Chapters00:00 - Western licks
01:55 - Live stream of Guthrie Trapp and Tom Bukovac $20
Notes
Here is the link to the livestream of this weekends gig friends...
https://volume.com/t/oIiehV/
May 20th, 2024
Owners Manual for Uncle Larry’s Sleepy Time Calm Relaxation Elixir
Chapters00:00 - Good morning / "Fresh outta bed", dick comment
00:43 - Thanks and bringing a lesson
01:14 - Lesson 1: Rhythm aerobic exercise / Mute
03:18 - Lesson 2: Hybrid picking
04:09 - Lesson 3: Bob Britt cut-off picking
05:17 - Lesson 4: Chromatic bridge to rhythm
06:27 - Lesson 5: Inversion chromatic from Bb
06:46 - Lesson 6: All-time favorite lick back to whole
07:50 - Lesson 7: Dmaj pull down to IV chord unison bend into the ending
09:00 -Ending comments
Notes
Just some old barrel house rock and roll rhythm guitar that doesn’t like that terribly difficult…until you try it
November 13th, 2023
Homeskoolin’ Volume 254, Tom Bukovac, “Deluxe Rentverb”
Chapters00:00 - Nice pickin' n slidin'
05:00 - Hello, friends! / Back home / Monday Night Football and the unders
07:12 - Furious titanium slide / Joe Walsh
10:25 - Nathan East (Bass)
11:13 - Alienating my audience / Pissing people off
11:57 - Paul Kossoff
12:58 - And we're off playing
13:19 - Lesson: Tucked pick, hybrid picking (Em7, G, Asus, C)
15:00 - Gibson SG P90 expressiveness / 'Deluxe Rentverb'
Notes
Uncle Larry talks about road life and rentals….and titanium slides…
May 10th, 2023
Homeskoolin' Bonus "I've Always Pictured You Wearing Pants Pt. 11"
Chapters00:00 - Brilliant stretched chords
Notes
Simple lines intertwining....
this one is harder than it looks. Give it a try.
Echo courtesy of an old lavender DanEcho I bought in a pawn shop yesterday for 40 bucks cash out the door.
April 11th, 2023
Homeskoolin' Volume 210, Tom Bukovac, "He Came From Somewhere Back In Her Long Ago"
Chapters00:00 - Pickin' with the best of them
04:04 - Hello, friends! / Trip The Witch mugs
05:00 - Some amazing picking ascending into finger picking
06:02 - Lesson: Cool lick
06:52 - Twang like a Jazzmaster / Mosrite Combo
07:28 - Back to picking
08:54 - 50% hit ratio on licks
09:25 - Sweet gifts (NFL puzzles, Spuds lamp)
11:50 - The Gear Page comments
13:20 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Percentage of wankers?
14:57 - Certain artists' insecurity / Having a good time / Dan Auerbach
17:10 - Building your own studio?
17:58 - The Gear Page comedy / Chumbawamba
19:27 - Trip The Witch with Dean DeLeo / Guthrie project
Notes
Uncle Larry damn near strangles this poor old 64 Jazzy to death in a desperate search to find the lost chord.
Followed by an awkward transition into the VCB.
Trip the witch mugs available here
https://shop.bandwear.com/collections/trip-the-witch-shop
April 6th, 2023
Homeskoolin' Volume 208, Tom Bukovac, "How To Properly Match Your Shirt To Your Guitar"
Chapters00:00 - Fingerstyle guitar
03:30 - Hi guys / Quick morning beer / Fun days
05:23 - Twitch with the Wook and Guthrie
06:30 - Back to guitar playing
07:20 - Gruhn's videos / John McBride (Blackbird Studios)
09:40 - Lesson: Genesis - Supper's Ready
12:00 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / The Gear Page
13:12 - Dementia story and Homeskoolin' videos
14:40 - Favorite Song? / David Bowie & Freddie Mercury - Under Pressure
17:15 - Nice people comments / Sitting around music stores hanging out
18:28 - Music store stories (Ron Blair)
21:00 - Joe Jackson song and comments
21:43 - Corona Lesson videos
23:20 - Lesson: Tapping (Dark Side of the Moon)
25:50 - Lesson: Chord tapping / Eddie Van Halen taking off
27:40 - Muting / Learning process
30:00 - Lesson: Muting
Notes
Uncle Larry carryin' on with nary a comma today...to the point where he reaches double the time length of one of his "normal" videos....
here is the link for tonite's livestream with sweet Guthrie....which will start at roughly 8PM central.
https://www.twitch.tv/iamthewook
and if you haven't checked out some of the exciting things happening with Homeskoolin' merch in a while, you can certainly do that here....
https://dvg-inc.shoplightspeed.com/merch/tom-bukovac/
February 10th, 2023
Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Raunch Dressing”
Chapters00:00 - Rockin finger pickin / Full-blown rock
03:22 - '60 Fender Tweed Princeton
04:00 - Pedalboard look
04:27 - 80's Super Champ
04:50 - '63 Gibson SG
Notes
Hello friends….contact me at tombukovac@gmail.com if you want the 63 SG (11.5k) or the Super Champ (1400.00)
Gonna be a week or so until the Super Champ is ready to go (unless you fix amps yourself)…it has a noisy tube that i would like to have fixed before i sell it.
Larry don’t sell no bullshit.
Buyer must pick up in person. Cash deals only. No shipping….unless of course there wa$ $ome kind of con$iderable incentive to do $o.....
January 25th, 2023
Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “Williamson County Blues”
Chapters00:00 - Finger pickin' with the best of them
Notes
Uncle Larry conjures some Southern sounds from an instrument born in Kalamazoo.
Sorry I ain't been around cats.....been W-O-R-K-I-N-G my hillbilly ASS off.
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January 4th, 2023
Homeskoolin’ Volume 182, Tom Bukovac, “The Great Gear Chase”
Chapters00:00 - Mixing it up from rockin to
03:05 - Hello, friends! / Thanks / Vince Gill
04:49 - Bills game and cardiac arrest on field
05:39 - Billy Gibbons story
07:12 - Quora junk mail
08:00 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Gordon Mote
08:44 - Camaraderie in sessions
11:25 - Paul McCartney
12:45 - New Year's Resolution
13:08 - Kick head back
13:37 - Remastering 3rd & Lindley
14:27 - Fingertip tone / Different sound with different person with same gear
22:25 - Lesson: Pick straight eighth notes and play melody with fingers
Notes
Uncle Larry is wearing a hole in his soap box again…firing off maybe even more hot takes than usual.
Tell me this isn't the cutest damned thing you ever saw....what a sweet sweet boy...god it KILLS me.
https://youtu.be/CONDKDDUHQM
Thanks for watching and supporting the show guys
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Venmo tip jar is @Tom-Bukovac-1
November 23rd, 2022
Homeskoolin’ Volume 176, Tom Bukovac, “81 Is The New 78”
Chapters00:00 - Country pickin'
02:01 - Intro
02:26 - Lesson: Picking fingers
03:08 - Lesson: Piano voicing / Deconstructing chord notes for picking
05:55 - Lesson: Angle of the pick
10:00 - Circle of 5ths vs. Circle of 4ths
11:34 - Santo and Johnny - Sleepwalk
12:15 - Twitch / Guthrie Trapp
13:45 - Lesson: F Chord progression / Playing
Notes
He just woke up and his hair is a mess, but Uncle Larry can still teach ya’ some redneck guitar licks while he is having his coffee.
Today’s tone courtesy of a lightly/tastefully chopped 54 esquire and a 59 tweed deluxe.
Probably around 6 tonite things are when things are gonna get cookin' on twitch.com...here is the link
https://www.twitch.tv/iamthewook
Ya' know, if anyone out there has some nice old 50's or 60's football cards they wanna sell or trade for guitars, please email me at tombukovac@gmail.com
Uncle Larry's therapist suggested that maybe he should try getting his mind off music for a minute, and collecting old cards is the closest thing Larry has to a "non-music related hobby"....
August 21st, 2022
Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “Be The Ball Danny”
Chapters00:00 - Beautiful finger picking and strumming
Notes
It’s a long way to the top if you wanna rock and roll….
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July 17th, 2022
Homeskoolin’ Volume 156, Tom Bukovac, “Seafood Green”
Chapters00:00 - Good, fun "Tequila" playing
00:41 - "A good lick"
01:03 - Friends! / Thanks for gifts / Kids
04:15 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin)
04:42 - Steel Panther gig?
05:12 - Headstock break? / Guitar problems cannot stand
08:27 - Guitar Player magazine
08:58 - Fender Duosonic
09:11 - "The Claw" finger playing lesson / Eric Johnson stealing
11:29 - Favorite Bukowski book?
11:38 - Locker & stolen Ann Wilson gear / Mexico
12:50 - '71 Les Paul Custom
13:17 - Miscellaneous comments / Phil Collins
16:25 - Thanks to all / Plexi Soul / Trip The Witch
Notes
I saw an ad for a Stratocaster on Reverb a couple days ago where a guy described the color as “seafood green”….oh man, that got me…
Anyway, here’s a 17 minute ramble from a guy who hasn’t been around many people any older than 9 years old in several days.
If anyone out there knows what issue of guitar player mag i got “writ up” in recently please tell me, cuz i can’t find the fucking thing....like who is on the cover?
totally unrelated, dig this crazy video....my son watched this and all he said afterwards was "knuckleheads..." kinda under his breath......hahaaaaa, wonder where he got that?
https://youtu.be/5oO226PgSkg
Thanks for watching friends
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July 1st, 2022
Homeskoolin’ Volume 155, Tom Bukovac, “Bubba’s Big Jam”
Chapters00:00 - Some jammin playing
01:23 - Intro...Hello, class! / Thanks
03:01 - Special "Fuck Off to that guy"
03:32 - Viewer appreciation
04:16 - Getting sentimental / Joe Walsh / Greg Sarley
06:41 - Big Jam Distortion
07:56 - Pre Rocked Pedals
08:25 - Big Jam pedal demonstration
10:53 - Turning up the gain
11:24 - "into hair band guitar players?"
12:23 - Rainbow Room
12:45 - More of the Big Jam
13:30 - Playing an open ringing string with finger picking
Notes
A little tribute to the guy who got me into all this shit…
Gregor Sarlija…
Which turned into Greg Sarley at Ellis Island…
Which turned into Bubba P on prospect ave in the 70s
The progenator of the Multivox Big Jam Distortion pedal
If you are enjoying this insanity please hit the tip jar
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Oh, and there’s trivia too: Name the asshead that came up with this famous quote
“Did you ever notice how all of Tom’s “dear friends” are selling something”
October 5th, 2021
Homeskoolin’ Volume 113, Tom Bukovac, “Planet TD1
Chapters00:00 - Bedtime quiet playing
02:41 - What's up, guys / Intro
03:15 - Trip The Witch - Planet TD-1 explanation
03:41 - Planet TD-1 lesson (Key G minor)
06:00 - Further explanation / Plasma Pedal
07:10 - Bending in general
08:17 - Gilmour playing / P90s
08:50 - Jam riff / loop lesson / Chord explanations
13:09 - "Boomer" bending / Shake it off
14:03 - Putting power into bending / Push fingers together
14:51 - Hillbilly outro playing
15:44 - Link Wray - Rumble playing
Notes
A not so brief discussion about bending and a couple tunes you can learn if you’re muy bored.
Thank you guys so much for the flood of positive feedback about the Trip The Witch record….it means the world to Dean and myself.
Stay tuned for a my solo record which is coming VERY soon….in two formats…one with my annoying solos, and one with space for YOUR annoying solos.
You guys are awesome, thanks for the continued support….and to the 11 people who religiously watch every video i put up and still thumbs down it, suck a dick.
Homeskoolin’ merch available at www.guitarhouse.net
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