July 12th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 665, Tom Bukovac, “Six String Steinway”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Exploring a different route
02:17 - "Got a million ideas that can come at you" / Greg Voros guitar class at Gruhn's / Show: I Shouldn't Be Alive
04:28 - Martin Herringbone / "Tumbleweed City" off the new album
05:30 - Lesson: Tumbleweed City (Amin7 -> pick inside a strum C/G -> Gmin -> Gmin6 -> F)
07:20 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Cleaning the cluttered house and real organization
10:52 - Cleveland friend troubles
13:11 - Neil Giraldo
15:21 - "What key is your favorite?" - B is home base
16:18 - "What are the most important speakers made?" - Celestion / Vox Silver Dog / EV


Notes
Uncle Larry delves into some titillating VCB on a steamy Sunday afternoon, whilst coaxing ancient tones out of woods from trees that were probably cut down before Prohibition was even a glimmer in Andy Volstead’s eye.

July 12th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 664, Tom Bukovac, “Knuckles”

Chapters
00:00 - Remembering a great musician / Deep cleaning process
08:22 - "Don't get caught up in the notes...and lose the feel"


Notes
This video is in memory of an old friend of mine …a a piano player from Cincinnati named Jimmy Nichols …or “Knuckles”, as the legendary record producer Mark Bright used to call him

I haven’t seen Jimmy in a few years, but we worked together A LOT in the late 2000’s ….i remember back around 2007, i walked by him one time in Starstruck Studio on a session while he was talking to someone on the phone, and I heard him blurt out “yeah man , it’s 120k for 8 weeks”

When he hung up the phone with whoever he was talking to, I said “yo dude, WHAT is 120k for 8 weeks??”

He said “the Faith Hill tour man…I already asked you about it a while ago and you said no”

Needless to say , at that moment I reconsidered hahaaa

He was lovable oaf…he will be missed

Friends, I implore you as I also tell myself …ENJOY EVERY FUCKING SANDWICH because we all know how fleeting this life is…which leads me to the beginning of today’s little clip

every man on this earth needs a little place of respite. …even if it’s just an average run of the mill stereo system, maybe with some cool old records to listen to , maybe some nice coffee to drink and a cool old chess board to teach his sons how to play the greatest game ever invented

And yes friends, all those records are alphabetically organized.

July 1st, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Choosin’ Texan”

Chapters
00:00 - Music City Vintage / '64 Epiphone Texan


Notes
If any of you guys out there have an extra 7K and you want an FUCKIN KILLER acoustic call this number

615-621-3050

Thanks to Beau and Graham

July 1st, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 659, Tom Bukovac, “The Zinger”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing some 'dead strings'
00:46 - Dead Ringer rubber bridge
02:35 - Movie with kids / Movie: Mystic River
04:20 - Trifecta record
06:52 - '64 Gibson J-50
08:04 - Zinger or jinger guitar pick
10:48 - Jerry McPherson story
13:19 - Terrible injury to finger
16:28 - Rick Beato interview and cry fest
17:24 - Lesson: Coolest chord in the world (Fmadd9/Ab) [4 x 3 0 1 x]
19:00 - Trifecta / Vinyl albums and CD / :|


Notes
Uncle Larry cries at everything

Here’s a link to the new record friends
https://jeddhughes1.bandcamp.com/album/trifecta

June 30th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Oh Larry Boy”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing / "The broken link"
02:19 - Gruhn picks
02:35 - Brutal honesty about the album
04:00 - Morgan Wallen
05:12 - Special thanks for metal bridge


Notes
Here’s a broken link that will start working tmrw
https://jeddhughes1.bandcamp.com/albu...

Please don’t email me and tell me the link isn’t working

My personal favorite song on the record is the last track called “tumbleweed city”

Jordan Perlson guested on the album with the percussion and the full drum kit you hear on a couple songs

Guthrie played guitar, all the mandolin stuff and a lot of the guitar solos

Jedd and I split acoustics

I played all the keys and the bass

We stayed true to our acoustic theme on the album …even the bass you hear was provided by my trusty old harmony h-22 hollow body bass

The keyboards used were a real Rhodes suitcase 73, lots of mellotron and even some Farfisa

MANY different acoustic guitars were used..my old mid 70s guild flamey blonde jumbo 12 made SEVERAL appearances, mostly being wrangled by poor Jedd

When you have an engineer as great as Brandon Bell, the sky is the limit sonically.

It’s almost like cheating working with him…like magic

June 28th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “Galaxie 500”

Chapters
00:00 - Beauty


Notes
When it’s this hot and humid, there ain’t much a man can do expect get in the pool and make up riffs.

Do you guys also hear a Rhodes and all kinds of other instruments swirling around in the insane harmonics of this magical instrument, or is that just me ?

also interesting to note... first time in 1500 or so videos i have ever heard an iphone mic just totally glitch out at 0:31 in this video

June 27th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Short “The Coolest Cmaj7add9 In The World”

Chapters
00:00 - Lesson: Cmaj7add9 [8 7 <12> <12> <12> <12>]


Notes
Brought to you by Rob Ruff from Gruhn Guitars in Nashville.
He said he came up with that after listening to a lot of Jaco when he was a young man

June 21st, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 654, Tom Bukovac, “Roselarry and Thyme”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Simon and Garfunkel - Scarborough Fair
03:17 - House band concerts and Paul Simon
05:09 - "Can't believe I am not cancelled yet."
06:31 - Vince Gill update / Having to pee onstage
07:42 - Playing: "Ooo, that's cool" / Timeless, iconic hit song that never was
09:29 - The Mamas & The Papas - California Dreamin' / Instant universe
14:44 - '64 Gibson J-50 "Saddest guitar of all time"
14:52 - Lesson: Paul Simon riff (Scarborough Fair)
17:00 - Strumming with your thumb


Notes
Uncle Larry gets all folky with ya…and a little hippie too

…and like I said …centuries of wars fought and kingdoms won and lost over birds this hot …

• The Mamas & The Papas - California Dreamin...

June 19th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 652, Tom Bukovac, “Bare Knuckles Chording”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Soft tune
03:48 - Helloooo / Triple sessioneering
04:50 - "Why the G chord" / Whole tone Bluegrass lick / Showing passion in sessions
05:55 - Playing: '44 Gibson J45 Banner Head
07:17 - "Should learn to flatpick"
07:31 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Eq'ing guitars
08:24 - "Instead of vintage guitars?"
08:38 - 13s on an acoustic pulling off the neck
10:00 - Lesson: Boom chuck perfectly / A with high E string
12:09 - Lession: "What are those chords?" "What tuning?" / Cascading A G D
14:13 - Martin Shadetop?
15:22 - Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul (Documentary Tom Bukovac did some music on)
16:47 - Lesson: Cool harmonics / Ugly hand chords
18:54 - Lesson: Figuring out the intro to this video [3 x 0 2 0 3] -> [2 x 2 2 0 2] -> [0 x 5 6 3 0] -> [x 0 7 6 9 0] - [4 x 6 4 4 0]


Notes
Uncle Larry answers some great VCB and shows you some chords that are guaranteed to pull a tendon or two…right after getting home from 9 hours of sessioneering.

Happy birthday dear Kris “Sandals” Donegan

June 19th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 651, Tom Bukovac, “Fresh 013’s”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Catchy tune on the Martin D-28 Herringbone
03:12 - Hello, friends / Triple day sessioneering
04:53 - "I eat the song" / "Takes a little longer to get there than I used to"
07:09 - Christmas songs
08:30 - Trifecta record
09:37 - Show: Widows Bay / Western movie: Rust
10:10 - Playing: Martin Herringbone
11:50 - Uncle Larry's Garage Sale: '56 Gibson Les Paul Junior TV Yellow
14:50 - "You don't need them all"
15:57 - '39 Martin D-28 Herringbone (rear-shifted)


Notes
Uncle Larry explores the boundless possibilities of some new strings on a sweet old 30’s Martin.

June 17th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 648, Tom Bukovac, “Uncle Larry’s Bone”

Chapters
00:00 - Hello, friends / Losing that piano feeling / '39 Martin D-28 Herringbone / Tommy Hambridge
05:03 - Hellcat / Jedd Hughes, Guthrie Trapp, Tom Bukovac - Trifecta
07:34 - The piano is back / New Country artist
11:17 - Les Paul Special and other guitars


Notes
Uncle Larry shows ya his beat up old Bone in front of God and everybody

Touched by an uncle …

Hope you guys are all groovy

June 7th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 642, Tom Bukovac, “Acoustophrenia”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Martin D-28 Herringbone
01:55 - Hello friends / Pepe / Fender Mustang
03:00 - Ice Road Truckers / Chef movie
06:24 - CMA Festival?
07:09 - Slip on banana peel?
08:21 - Lesson: "Zeps" or "String squeaks"
10:10 - "They don't know what they don't know" / Learning lessons and crushing dreams
12:22 - Moving out of depression to positiveness
13:43 - Coffee / Selling guitars high / A.I. photo changing


Notes
Uncle Larry shreds on his 39 bone, a guitar which suffers from acute schizophrenia.

June 6th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 641, Tom Bukovac, “Beluga-Grass Festival”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing
01:51 - What's up / "What the fuck's that chord Larry?"
02:40 - Love anything depressing
03:23 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / "Positive Downbeat Mentality"
04:06 - Beluga cat channel / Son wheelie
05:08 - "Should do a video with Bubba"
05:42 - Lesson: Alternative voicing
07:05 - "Would Jerry Reed...have a YouTube channel?"
08:15 - Negative Vince Gill video comments / Spoonfed vs. hard work
11:30 - Correction of video / Joan Jett / Playing: '39 Martin D-28 Herringbone
14:29 - Beluga cat
14:58 - Peter Frampton studio and coffee / Richard Landis
17:46 - Fun movie fact (Vanishing Point)
18:47 - Bekka Bramlett


Notes
Uncle Larry talks about many many things in a typical morning Homeskoolin’ ramble.

The French movie I was trying to think of was “Irreversible”…still to this day the darkest movie I have ever seen

The Richard Landis movie was called “Greetings”

Thank the Good Lord for the google

June 2nd, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “A Guitar You Can Grow Old With”

Chapters
00:00 - 000-18 for sale


Notes
Here’s a sweet one for you guys

A nice straight 1942 Martin OOO-18 that my dear friend Brandon Hood owns

All there except a non original case

20k plus shipping

If you wanna take a shot at this one email me at tombukovac@gmail.com and I’ll hook you up with Brandon

May 31st, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 637, Tom Bukovac, “Good Guitar Hands”

Chapters
00:00 - Son playing the acoustic / Form 1 and Form 2 chords
06:19 - Uncle Larry's Garage Sale: '57 Fender Stratocaster
09:30 - '58 Gibson Les Paul Junior


Notes
You gotta admit, the boy has BEAUTIFUL guitar hands….literally born to play …13 years old and strong as an ox.

Thanks for watching friends ..the old Hornswaggler has sure enough been at it lately…buying and selling hard friends…keeping UPS and Fed Ex in business

Thanks for all the kind comments lately about the video that just came out of Marcus King and your favorite uncle throwin down on an old Allman Brothers classic …you guys all know how I feel about Marcus, he gives me hope for the future of music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwKFn2Qlmmc

if you are enjoying the progrum and feel like donating to the cause
my PayPal is tombukovac‪@gmail.com‬
my venmo is @Tom-Bukovac-1

if you want to see some cool Homeskoolin t shirts check out www.humbuckermerch.com

May 23rd, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 631, “How To REALLY Tune A Guitar By Ear” with Vince Gill

Chapters
00:00 - Martin D-18 and intro to video
02:44 - Gruhn's guitars hanging / Vince Gill tunes guitar
08:00 - George Gruhn weighs in / Guitar 2 tuning
12:00 - Difference tuning makes on chords
14:06 - "No note"
15:07 - Jack Schneider and a '57 Martin 000-28 original acoustic
16:47 - '26 45


Notes
It was damn hard not to title this video “Tuggin’ It With Vince and Larry”, but i somehow resisted the urge.

Vince Gill, George Gruhn, Greg Voros and young Jack Schneider join the class for today’s fun at the greatest guitar store on planet earth, Gruhn Guitars in Nashville TN

Any man with half a brain knows that, right next to hitting a 102 MPH fast ball, tuning a guitar by ear is one of the hardest things in this world to do…correctly

Special thanks to Vince for showing us HOW to do it …
special thanks to Nathan Golliher for the beautiful restoration work he did on this sweet old 48 Shade Top D-18…
special thanks to George Gruhn for creating such an amazing environment for guitar lovers to thrive in way back in 1970 …
and special thanks to Greg Voros for being the coolest dude that has ever lived.

May 15th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 625, Tom Bukovac, “Uncle Larry’s Bone”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing acoustic
03:34 - Hello, friends / Brandon Hood / Video lighting
06:45 - Dee Dickerson buys a guitar / People want a guitar more than me
08:57 - "What is the tape for?"
09:30 - Old man rant about truths
12:32 - "I don't have dandruff"
13:20 - '39 Martin D-28 Herringbone (Bone)


Notes
Uncle Larry explains why people are smarter today

May 13th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 624, Tom Bukovac, “Murray Olderman Blues”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing that maple cap Blonde Tele
04:27 - Hello, friends!
04:56 - Lesson: 1 chord Easy Listening rhythm with infinite
07:28 - Playing: Strange bending
09:30 - Music City Bridge saddles
11:08 - Freak out with a theremin
12:38 - Acoustic and baked potatoes
14:55 - Music City Bridge saddles
17:44 - Ad for YouTube


Notes
Uncle Larry gets way deep into the science of baked potatoes and guitar bridge saddles

THIS is where you need to be today friends

For your tele AND your Strat

If you buy these….THEN you’ll be happy
https://musiccitybridge.com/products/groove-master-strat-saddles

May 12th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 623, Tom Bukovac, “They’re All Free”

Chapters
00:00 - Getting information about overhauling acoustics


Notes
I had so many possible names for this episode …

“Trifecta”

“Cathedral”

“Fuck Satin”

but i inevitably settled on “they’re all free” for obvious reasons.

This episode stars Nathan Golliher, Greg Voros and Tony Nagy from Gruhn Guitars in Nashville TN, and Eric “Ebo” Borash from Ebo Customs in Lebanon TN

Every one of these guys is a world class repair man , and I had a feeling we would get into some deep ass water if I just asked a few questions…so of course i did

Hope you guys enjoy

May 6th, 2026

Homeskoolin' Volume 618, Little Tommy Bukovac, "Wipe Out"

Chapters
00:00 - Best sounding acoustic
06:06 - Hello friends
06:39 - '39 Martin D-28 Herringbone (Bone) / Different sounds
09:00 - Jedd, Guthrie album is finished
10:00 - Son is natural born guitar player
11:00 - eBike wreck
11:30 - Back to the acoustic sound / eBike wreck
13:53 - Martin Bone sounds / Selling off other gear / Playing
15:38 - Park Guitars and purchase
16:12 - Jamie French and video
17:00 - Lesson: Check out these chords
17:43 - Martin 000-18 comparison
18:40 - Martin D-28
19:00 - Lesson: Bbmaj7 [1 1 0 2 3 x ] / Ebmaj7 [x 1 1 0 3 3]
19:46 - Wipeout



Notes
Unbelievably, his friend Benny just HAPPENED to be filming when it happened.

Hope you enjoy this somewhat intimate look at the best acoustic guitar I have ever personally owned.

For the last couple days these creepy ass black vultures have been hanging around my house ...the neighbors dog is barking at them...hope they get the message that they should move on