January 29th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 566, Tom Bukovac, “Up With People”

Chapters
00:00 - Hi everybody / Waiting for eternal thaw
02:00 - Lesson: Tone Control
03:27 - Thanks / VCB (Viewer Comment Bin)
04:13 - "Where did your hybrid picking come in?" / Total obsurity Rig Rundown for Premier Guitar
05:11 - Lesson: Good practice lick
05:31 - Back to Rig Rundown and hybrid picking
07:24 - This is what is meant by "tone is in the hand" / Moving the pick around and fingering picking
09:36 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / "What are you known for at sessions?"
10:08 - "Your eyes look alive without the booze"
10:18 - "Steve Cutler suck a dick"
11:14 - "Style of guitar you cannot play?" / Singers are like guitar players in regard to identification
12:50 - "Guitar is one of the most expressive instruments"
13:43 - Eric Gales is a good guitar player / Getting expression
15:57 - Playing
16:27 - '63 Gibson ES-335


Notes
Uncle Larry skins it back a little on an old 335 and discusses his new ultra positive approach to life …”up with people” he calls it….well, everyone except Steve Cutler of course….he can suck a dick.

This episode also contains a healthy amount of VCB…where Larry touches on some of the meaning behind the old saying “if you don’t hybrid pick, what the fuck are you even doing with your life?” that has been spoken in guitar culture for decades.

January 28th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 565, Tom Bukovac, “Off The Wagon”

Chapters
00:00 - Hybrid pickin good / "Suburb Chile"
08:15 - Hi guys / Not drinking
09:13 - Playing: Santo & Johnny - Sleep Walk
10:25 - "Testing your manhood" / Siphoning
15:43 - Coming back to guitar after a week / Playing upbeats
18:22 - Young Sheldon / Guthrie Trapp thing
20:26 - Playing


Notes
Uncle Larry lets off a little steam after a session and ends a very annoying short streak of not drinking alcohol that was purely brought on by stress…thank God that’s over

Nothing can interfere with a man’s drinking more than stress…terrible

Here’s that thing that Guthrie has goin’ on in October
• Proud To Announce ”Trapped In Nashville”-T...

…..and totally unrelated…THIS is an amazing documentary
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexpe...

…and of you haven’t seen the Netflix series “Chernobyl”, you ABSOLUTELY MUST watch it friends …fucking incredible

January 19th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 562, Tom Bukovac, “Carandolet In The Wind”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing a strange Les Paul
00:58 - Hello, dear friends / Carondelet Pickups
02:25 - Carondelet bridge
02:55 - '59 PAF bridge
03:51 - Carondelet bridge
04:18 - Gibson ES-335 PAF bridge
05:02 - Carondelet bridge
05:39 - Pickup height /  It all sounds great
06:40 - Sometimes mismatched coils inside pickup
07:48 - Just listen to midrange / '59 PAF
08:21 - ES-335 PAF
08:45 - Carondelet (scooped) / Thoughts
10:00 - Carondelet neck pickup / NFL


Notes
Uncle Larry tries out some lovely new PAF style pickups that his dear friend Owen Barry brought him to try.

Check out this site friends
https://www.carondeletpickups.com/


…and totally unrelated, I think this might be the hardest I have ever laughed at an Instagram clip in my entire life :
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTq5hP...

and happy birthday to Dr. Martin Luther King....even though today is actually not your birthday

December 16th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 542, Tom Bukovac, “Hoard Festival”

Chapters
00:00 - Beautiful tunes on acoustic
02:31 - Tuning / NFL
06:50 - Lesson: Chord voicing that's overlooked (E -> E/G# -> A) [4 x 2 4 5 x]
10:02 - Hunter Flynn at Easy Eye Studio / Dann Huff
10:53 - Lesson: Vibrato / Steve Howe's side to side vibrato
12:08 - Pickups hoard / Patent Sticker Gibson pickups / Guild mini-humbucker
13:53 - Modding things / Tech schools
15:00 - Maton acoustic / Piezo
15:48 - Beautiful playing outro


Notes
Uncle Larry shows off his growing hoard of raw old pickups…is this pickup obsession becoming a problem? You decide

oh...and check this out dear friends...GT giving away all the songs that we are gonna put on the acoustic record
Acoustic Sessions-Behind The Scenes With T...

December 13th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 541, Tom Bukovac, “Kalamazoo Reflections”

Chapters
00:00 - '61 Gibson SG Les Paul
05:52 - Mike Bloomfield about Sunburst Sustain
07:29 - Greg Voros and Julio pickguard for ES-335 / Greg Voros expertise
11:39 - Alan Parker project / Dan Auerbach
24:10 - Playing
29:19 - Compare it to the best bridge pickup ('59 Gibson Les Paul Custom)


Notes
Uncle Larry restrings his dear beloved son Marshall’s lovely old chopper 61 SG/LP and reflects upon decades of wins and losses for the greatest guitar making company in the history of life on this planet.

For your amusement, here's an actual comment i got on this channel a couple days ago from a YouTuber called "620photo" after i posted a free video of me playing my 36 ES-150 with that glorious woody sounding Chuck Christian pickup.

"I used to get excited for these long videos. Where I knew he was gonna play for five or six minutes and talk for 20. Personally, I don't come here to hear him play, even though he is amazing. I come here for his great words of wisdom and great stories. I got excited to see a 25 minute video just to find out it's 15 minutes of playing jazz crap"

welcome to my world friends....i mean, seriously...how do you even respond to something in this "IQ range"?

well... anyway...it is true that 99% of the people that watch this channel are super cool...this fella is clearly a "one percenter"...

so, if you are indeed learning/growing/or just plain being entertained by all the bizarre things that take place on this channel, you might consider placing a little gratuity in the corporate tip jar....all proceeds go directly to Tom Bukovac...(not Uncle Larry)

Paypal is tombukovac‪@gmail.com‬
Venmo is @Tom-Bukovac-1

If you want to see some cool Homeskoolin merch go here friends...nice comfy t shirts with some cool new designs.
https://humbuckermerch.com

November 22nd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 531, Tom Bukovac, “Child Actor”

Chapters
00:00 - Strumming into, "how do you play a G chord"?
02:51 - Branching out into other chords
03:23 - Lesson: Avoiding 3rds and when not to / Dolly Parton chords / Playing like old records
06:43 - Tuner-ette
09:02 - Chopping into a Les Paul / Minihumbucker
10:07 - Brett Papa's son play date with Tom's son
10:30 - New tortoiseshell pickguard / Course Black Friday Sale
13:17 - UA pedals gift thank you
14:07 - Jaime French music video featuring Tom's son / Marshall kid giving haircuts


Notes
Uncle Larry mashes a million things together into one video

A real "hodge podge" as they say

check this thing out....its awesome
https://www.tunerette.net

November 21st, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 529, Tom Bukovac, “A Sure Sign Your Repair Guy Is A Hack”

Chapters
00:00 - Bench intro
02:22 - Pedalboard intro
04:37 - Components on board: Diamond - Compressor, Collision Devices - Black Hole Symmetry, Digitech - Whammy, Coppersound - Telegraph V2 Autostutter & Killswitch
05:43 - XTS pedalboard builders
07:36 - '59 Danelectric U2 (Silvertone) / Rick Vito
10:23 - NFL
11:53 - D'Addario strap locks
14:09 - Ace guitar strap
14:42 - Nashville Bender Volume 3
16:45 - Gibson ES-355 Mono / Overbeveled frets
19:29 - Gassed out pickguard / Overbeveled frets
26:54 - Playing


Notes
i'll bet this isn’t the first time you guys have gone on a total stream of consciousness journey after a Bills game

check out this site my dear friends...some cool and cozy new Homeskoolin shirts just in time for winter...
https://humbuckermerch.com

here's the site for Baked Alaska records...they distribute my solo record, the record i made with Guthrie Trapp, plus the latest Dann Huff record.
https://bakedalaskarecords.com

they will very soon be be putting out the latest "Nashville Benders Volume 3" record featuring all KINDS of red hot pickers...Brent Mason, johnny Hiland, Jimmy Olander etc etc

October 23rd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 514, Tom Bukovac, “Kalamazoo Girls”

Chapters
00:00 - Calm finger picking
04:37 - Hello, friends!
05:40 - Plexi Soul album
07:37 - Havalina update / Playing
08:49 - Open Chords and wide voicings / Playing


Notes
Uncle Larry explores the universe on a clear fall evening

September 19th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “One Take Wonder”

Chapters
00:00 - Country picking
03:22 - Marshall company gift / European shirts


Notes
Hello friends, I just wanted to see what would happen if I really quickly did one take only to build a simple guitar and bass loop….and then quickly did one take only soloing on top of it

I’m all about the freshness of the spontaneous musical moment...and I'm also all about a 1960 slab board Tele Custom....what could possibly go wrong?

anyway, this is the result of my little one take experiment…hope you enjoy my friends

Also a little love here for our long suffering European friends who have been completely screwed in the Homeskoolin merch game since day one

this whole campaign is mainly designed a special treat for our friends across the pond..
although i do promise I will try to get some of these in the states too if you hound me enough.

Of course, in the true tradition of Homeskoolin' Inc., these shirts will be of the utmost quality and EXTREMELY soft and comfortable.

I will forward the ordering details as soon as they are officially available

Also, big thanks to Hugh Gilmartin and all our friends in the custom shop at Marshall Amplification for hooking me up with this sweet ass back panel.

September 19th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 503, Tom Bukovac, “Expectations”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing slow
07:58 - Hey guys / Douchebag comment / NFL / Playing
09:43 - Weed smoking coach
10:49 - Lesson: Blazing fast cross picking sweep
12:28 - '58 Fender Telecaster
14:08 - Life lessons
18:38 - Lesson: F# -> Bmaj climb
20:36 - Brett James passed away in plane crash


Notes
In this episode he plunks on some old Fullerton magic and addresses one of the great problem that plagues all of us ….expectations

August 23rd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 490, Tom Bukovac, “Barbecue Party”

Chapters
00:00 - Picking and a plucking
05:09 - Hello, friends! / Parties / Fender Telecaster
08:30 - Garage Sale and shootout
08:43 - Fender Telecaster Maple
09:36 - '60 Fender Telecaster slabboard
11:00 - Uncle Larry's Garage Sale / Acoustic
12:48 - '69 Gibson SG
14:43 - Gibson "Satan's SG" SG
15:43 - Playing
16:50 - Princeton amp / Fiddling with the knobs
18:05 - Lesson: C#dom7 chord open B string


Notes
Uncle Larry plays some old honk on a magical top loader and shows a few cool instruments that are about to be released from captivity

Email me at tombukovac@gmail.com

Greg Voros in full rock star mode on the album cover thumbnail

(Greg Voros appears courtesy of Electra Records)

August 22nd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 489, Tom Bukovac, “80…The New 50”

Chapters
00:00 - Beautiful playing
04:35 - Hello, friends! / Gruhn's birthday party
07:00 - Gift from Vince Gill
08:42 - Gretsch 6120 / Controls
11:37 - Pickguard thoughts
12:36 - Watkins Scout amp
14:05 - Music City Vintage
15:54 - Video of George Gruhn's birthday


Notes
Uncle Larry reminisces about a truly special evening where a very special guy was celebrated at the home of another very special guy…AND gives ya a tour through some archaic and arcane electronics

At one point in this video I mistakenly referred to the old circa 1962 Watkins amp as a Joker model…it’s actually a Scout

July 13th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 474, Tom Bukovac, “Hybrid And Lonesome”

Chapters
00:00 - 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...

July 4th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 470, Tom Bukovac, “1776”

Chapters
00:00 - Singing that Country
00:45 - Hey friends all the way to Zimbabwe
02:35 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin)
03:17 - Ever so lightly holding the pick
05:54 - Blues Junior amps?
06:45 - Tweed 410 / Blues DeVille
07:30 - Boss GE-7 Equalizer / EQ after the drives
08:30 - Thanks
10:12 - All that matters - Right-hand pocket
12:06 - Joe Walsh playing and amps choice
14:12 - Side Fills
15:19 - Course
17:19 - Inner peace / Clarity of life
19:15 - '64 SJ-200
19:30 - Tuned-down Rickenbacker
22:00 - Don't blow your fuckin' fingers off


Notes
Uncle Larry gets heavy into some current day VCB

I was gonna call this episode “carnival of pain” but I changed it to “1776”…it’s a little more snappy and upbeat

Here’s the link to my new course that just came out a couple days ago
https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...

Pictured in the thumbnail photo …the amazing band from the last two weeks of recording over at Vince Gill’s studio

From left to right
Matt “Hazmatt” Rausch (engineer)
Jedd Hughes (guitar)
Fred Eltringham (drums)
Jimmie Lee Sloas (bass)
Yours Truly
John Jarvis (keys)
Jim “Moose” Brown (keys)
Boss Man
Paul Franklin (pedal steel)
Justin Niebank (engineer)

June 21st, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Road Update, “How To Pick Like An English Guy”

Chapters
00:00 - 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!

Maximumlarry.com/course

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”

Chapters
00:00 - 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 27th, 2025

Homeskoolin' Volume 457, Tom Bukovac, "Does Wood REALLY Matter?"

Chapters
00:00 - Fishing out calming notes
03:20 - Old Homeskoolin' picks
04:11 - Roland Jazz Chorus JC-120
05:02 - Volume pedal swells
05:40 - Skyline Motel
06:10 - Lesson: Waterfall guitar part
09:00 - Got a 'car guy' for the Hellcat with special TN black plates
09:45 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Titles of videos, school newspaper, Creative Writing, Math
12:17 - JC-120
12:30 - Gibson Les Paul -> Duesenberg Sessionman
14:18 - Morgan Wallen records and different mixes (Wood, 808, etc.)
16:00 - Maximumlarry.com
16:30 - Ghost story / Haunted guitar
17:09 - 3 50's Gibson Les Paul acoustic shootout
17:26 - '55 Custom
17:53 - '58 Special
18:18 - '52 Goldtop
19:00 - Lesson: E F G A B C D E


Notes
I was just thinking to myself...what would be the funniest most bullshit clickbait video title i could possibly think of...

here's a cool old track...the legendary Richard Bennett on acoustic...Uncle Larry on electrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPyzrdsKhe0

May 4th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 439, Tom Bukovac, “Swang”

Chapters
00:00 - 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”

Chapters
00:00 - 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

April 4th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 423, Tom Bukovac, “Foxhole Friends”

Chapters
00:00 - Stringing up a ES
02:41 - '83 Gibson ES-335 Pro
03:45 - Double break / Tal Wilkinfeld
12:22 - Pickup height
16:00 - Skank and old cars
22:00 - Playing / Bridge height
23:05 - Alex Lifeson gear $6,500
32:30 - Tal Wilkinfeld


Notes
Uncle Larry tweaks on some Norlinry and waxes rhapsodic about the days events

…and of course my phone ran out of storage right as Tal was startin to get f-o-n-k—y…

oh and never mind that one of none dead original 57 anodized guard p bass with factory ORIGINAL gold sparkle finish she is playing in this video…please disperse people, there’s nothing to see here…