April 10th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 607, “Does Tone Come From The Hands?”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Fender Telecaster
05:21 - Hellooo, friends!
06:00 - Playing: Coming up with some Michael Jackson tunes
08:10 - "Killer Chorus" / Michael Jackson and greats making great noises
09:25 - "How do you come up with flow of ideas?"
11:25 - Paul McCartney
11:52 - Lesson: Get a motif going and then start fucking with it / Putting melodies to it
13:30 - "If you don't practice improvising, how are you ever going to get better at it?" / Pre-Internet practice
14:59 - Lesson: Weakness tentativeness
15:38 - "How much tone is in the hands?" = 95%, the other 5% in gear is important!  :|
16:36 - The most interesting video - Tonal shading of 10 different individual guitar players
18:41 - Danny Dugmore story about David Grissom and tone from the hands / Gear settings are in the ear
22:56 - Summation / Play the Middle Way (not too much and not too little)


Notes
The age old question that we are all SOOOO sick of finally gets definitely answered Cleveland style.

I even did one of those super dumb thumbnail pictures to match my clickbait video title…cuz it seemed appropriate

June 12th, 2023

Homeskoolin' Volume 227, Tom Bukovac, "Got A Girl In Cincinnatti..."

Chapters
00:00 - Song and dance, without the dance / Medley Michael Jackson - Beat It
03:45 - Thank you for comments / Robert Baker help with YouTube Channel
05:00 - Old concert programs (Eddie Van Halen photo of guitars)
06:10 - Wynonna Judd / Dave Letterman / Epiphone Crestwood best "chopper" ever had / Dann Huff story
07:30 - '64 Lake Placid Blue Fender Jaguar
08:00 - Cranking the mute on (cool sound, but goes sharp) / Adjustable individual string mute
09:45 - NFL cards (Hewrtitt Dixon)
10:36 - Kameron Marlowe - one-take singer / James Otto - loudest singer
12:00 - Coming to Nashville and getting vintage acoustic guitar with songs in it
13:00 - Watching YouTube and numbskulls who don't know shit
15:30 - "Strat Tuesday" video and joke / Ole Clevelander
16:25 - "Catch 22" band, spandex, hair, metal, glam
17:00 - Hearing damage & wearing ear protection / Hearing aid story
18:13 - Meaningful compliments are from people that don't overuse them / Club soundman compliment story
20:56 - Strat video comments / Rewire Strat tone controls
23:00 - Strat guitar shape & ergonomics


Notes
Uncle Larry talks about mutes and numbskulls.