September 24th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 345, Tom Bukovac, “Hitchhike From Saginaw”

Chapters
00:00 - Plunking, looping, and soloing
06:10 - Hard to stop looper
06:19 - Fucking amazing Reggae
06:55 - "Everything's hard" / Amazing playing cont. / Blackbird Studios / Singing and playing Alex Harvey Band Cheek To Cheek
08:21 - Lesson: Simon and Garfunkel - America / Yes
09:40 - Lights out / Complaining about lighting in free videos
10:30 - Amp guessing game
12:07 - Tweed Deluxe / Thanks for gifts
13:00 - Marshall Plexi / Good people getting ahead
14:06 - Lesson: A little finger work
15:15 - Lesson: Harmonies - Steely Dan - Led Zeppelin
16:05 - Play that sound all night / New room vs kitchen
17:12 - Lesson: That guy got the lick wrong / Fast pull-offs
19:56 - PayPal thanks / Rental house? / Thanks for the help / Dave Grohl scandal mention / Dating apps and advice
24:25 - Listen to America by Simon and Garfunkel / Vocal Harmonies, counter-rhythms
25:45 - Yes - America (version)
25:53 - Lesson: Yes - America part / Creamy center of songs, sweet little moments
27:31 - "Slightly different than the original" / Doing covers
28:28 - Giveaway


Notes
Uncle Larry gets in the weeds after a long day of sessioneering with some stream of consciousness music and speech

April 4th, 2020

Corona Lessons Volume 18, Tom Bukovac, “Time”

Chapters
00:00 - 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.