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

January 3rd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 384, Tom Bukovac, “Empress New Clothes”

Chapters
00:00 - Some crunchy goodness
02:25 - Hello, dear friends! / Morgan Wallen
03:54 - Dan Huff and producing record
05:49 - Empress new drive pedal / Controls / Distortion
07:13 - Gibson Les Paul Goldtop clean into amp
07:35 - Pedal demo
09:12 - Bass to match Lake Placid Blue Strat
11:30 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Getting excited about music / 1978 Elvis Costello / Bruce Thomas bass
13:47 - Born without tone? / Being able to decifer tone
16:13 - Did you see you have a stalker?
17:48 - Nasty weather
18:37 - '57 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop / Outro playing


Notes
This is basically a live recording from 1978…try to imagine being in a band THIS good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KI9eN-AY1s

December 6th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 371, Tom Bukovac, “Iced Tea Dreams”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Steely Dan - "Reelin' in the Years"
00:54 - Elliott Randall and iconic guitar lead / Ampeg bass amp with Stratocaster
02:53 - Introduction to Homeskoolin'
03:15 - '64 Epiphone Alcala
06:25 - Jumbo frets
07:06 - Switches / Bad engineer hypothetical
08:02 - Switch #2 - "Maggie May" / Garden hose sound
09:07 - Epiphone guitar company history
10:20 - Playing: Rush - "New World Man"
11:00 - Neil Peart lyrics / Son's critique of the song
14:03 - Morgan Wallen and day off / Thanks
14:26 - The Who - "My Generation"
15:21 - Vemuram - Shanks ODS-1
17:25 - Pentatonic wizard / Whipping ass / Impersonation Contest / NFL


Notes
Royal Tan my ass

Uncle Larry gets into the weeds with some total stream of un-consciousness ramblin

Lord I was born a ramblin man

October 7th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 347, Tom Bukovac, “Water Damage”

Chapters
00:00 - Heavy strumming
02:17 - Hello, friends!
03:00 - Heartbroke message to those in the disaster
04:47 - Morgan Wallen work / How the sessions work
06:21 - Getting a demo copied live
08:36 - 2019 Martin acoustic
10:01 - Budget brand stuff?
11:10 - Thanks to the small, mighty community


Notes
Words can’t describe how much my heart goes out to anyone out there who is dealing with this colossal flooding nightmare …what a fucking mess.

April 8th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 300, Tom Bukovac, “When Chairs Fly”

Chapters
00:00 - The Black Keys - On The Game
01:18 - Hey, early morning Larry / 100,000 Subscribers plaque / Fishing
02:55 - "Eclipse Monday" / Homeskooler Tweed Deluxe buy
03:43 - The Black Keys
05:00 - '63 Gibson Southern Jumbo / Old Gibson beater, run of the mill acoustic
07:43 - "The booze guy" / Negative connotation and cannot conform to everyone
10:44 - Morgan Wallace "chair" incident
12:53 - "Kalamazoo Corral" Gibson shootout video comments
13:38 - "Which one do you like to play?" / Refretting the Goldtop
15:06 - '57 Gibson ES-175
16:00 - Signing out


Notes
Sorry I had to repost this as there was a problem with the first upload


Southern jumbos, eclipses, 300th episodes…you name it we got it in this video friends.
Thank you guys again for being so cool and supporting the cause to bring chords back to music throughout the last 4 years and throughout 300 episodes and 900 plus videos.

It truly means a lot to Larry.

Larry’s PayPal tip jar feed hose pipe is connected to this address
Tombukovac@gmail.com.
His Venmo is @Tom-Bukovac-1

March 12th, 2023

Homeskoolin' Volume 198, Tom Bukovac "Ember Red Destruction Machine"

Chapters
00:00 - Boogie with some Rolling slide guitar
02:20 - Just Larry / No NFL / CD Collection / 80,000 Subscribers
03:39 - Michael Rhodes funeral
05:20 - Guthrie and album completion
05:55 - New Morgan Wallen record
07:00 - Favorite question: Every band or artist everyone likes except you?
08:38 - BTPA Cables - really cool
09:25 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / CDs / David and David
10:58 - Reaching far for an audience / YouTube is the only Social Media outlet worth a shit
12:00 - Newfoundland customs agent story
13:42 - '66 Gibson Firebird, non-reverse, P90, destruction machine
14:22 - 3rd & Lindsley remix DVD coming out


Notes

Uncle Larry gets busy with a tweed big box Tremolux with the channels jumped by a high quality BTPA cable.

https://btpa.com

and totally unrelated....great example of what I'm always talking about in terms of getting on a cool part and STAYING WITH IT...if you ever deviate from it there better be a DAMN GOOD reason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3lgmnsTdcA

September 15th, 2021

Homeskoolin’ Volume 111, Tom Bukovac, “Wagons In Space”

Chapters
00:00 - Space Wagon playing
01:53 - Hey, Homeskoolers!
02:43 - TTW thanks
03:51 - "Prog Jam" song
04:08 - Martin acoustic
04:20 - Space Wagon lesson / Chords
06:26 - Melody / Sarah Buxton
07:12 - Tricky verse part
08:58 - Building the song
09:44 - Playing the song
11:17 - Studio mess, campout


Notes
Hello class!!! Its your weird old uncle….tonites lesson teaches you how to play "Space Wagon" from the Trip The Witch record that came out recently. This track is probably my personal fave on the album, although its a bit of a wall flower at first glance.

Today was day one of a four day Morgan Wallen record at Blackbird studios in Nashville….its nice to be able to camp out for a few days and get weird…bring out the weird toys.

I’m actually totally serious about eventually making the move to all combo amps….the big head/cabinet scenario has served me well for many years, but I always like to keep evolving and trying new things.

Thanks so much for the kind words about the TTW album, Dean and I really appreciate it.

June 5th, 2020

Homeskoolin’ , Tom Bukovac, “A Session Update’s Gonna Come”

Chapters
00:00 - Covering Sam Cooke's - A Change Is Gonna Come
01:34 - Hello, class! / Blackbird Studio update
03:09 - Lesson: Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come (Bb, Cmin, Gmin) (Bb, Cmin, EbMaj7, D7, Gmin)


Notes
A brief super early morning lay of the land in current session world for my dear Homeskoolin’ family.