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September 28th, 2023
Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Cereal Box Blues Mach II”
Chapters00:00 - Nice feedback, slide guitar
Notes
Larry being driven around by one of the cleanest late 50’s Danelectro U-2’s a man could ever find after a long day of sessioneering.
June 12th, 2023
Homeskoolin’ Saturday Night Family Jams
Chapters00:00 - Covers by Uncle Larry's family
Notes
Uncle Larry and his two sweet sweet boys get their ya ya’s out on a Saturday night….
starring:
Leo (age 7) on the Hammond B3
and
Marshall (age 10) on the 1990 Gibson Flyin’ V he just got today at Rumbleseat Music
May 19th, 2023
Homeskoolin' Volume 219, Tom Bukovac, "The Phases"
Chapters00:00 - Remember when songs had chords
01:24 - Hello, friends! / Talent show "Back In Black"
02:30 - Contest update / Strumming away
04:10 - Text thread
05:45 - Strymon Flint secret
06:40 - Magic setting (Give credits to Renn)
07:30 - Theory of phases of guitar player's life (Pedal Steel, Pawn Shop, Bass, Acoustic, No pedals, Princeton)
09:45 - Harmony, Kays, and pawn shop guitars
12:00 - Being a bass player / Most fun instrument
13:00 - Acoustic only / No pedals
14:36 - Friendly commentor saying something offensive / Messing with someone's business
16:20 - Sharkline / Things that don't fly in the bro code
18:06 - Photo montage
Notes
Strymon Flint owners...you are welcome.
Please give all the credit to dear Renn...I am only the messenger....i want you to SOLELY visualize Renn when you are taking care of business after your girlfriend/wife etc is instantly seduced by the tone you are conjuring with the "magic setting".
Here he is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efeezC9Lwgg
a LOT of new viewers have recently asked "where is the tip jar?" when they felt led to contribute something after 219 free guitar lessons...despite Dominic Hudson's best efforts to deter them.
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A lot of these very same new viewers don't seem to know that Uncle Larry made a couple records that they could potentially listen to...
one is an instrumental solo record called "Plexi Soul" that is available here:
https://tombukovac.bandcamp.com/album/plexi-soul
another is an instrumental collaboration with his dear friend Dean Deleo (originally from the Stone Temple Pilots organization) that is available here:
https://tripthewitch.bandcamp.com/album/trip-the-witch
and a LOT of people don't seem to know that they can go here to purchase a myriad of Homeskoolin' related merchandise..including several different T-shirts and some beautifully constructed coffee mugs for those afflicted with thin lips...https://dvg-inc.shoplightspeed.com/merch/tom-bukovac/
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March 31st, 2023
Homeskoolin’ Special Episode, “Uncle Larry's Hearing Test”
Chapters00:00 - Pedals, pedals, and more pedals (Duelist, Memory Man, etc.)
04:30 - XTS pedal tester
07:18 - Test setup
10:32 - Test starts / Klon
12:18 - Ibanez - Mostortion
13:22 - Nobels - ODR-1
14:30 - Ibanez - Tube Screamer
14:39 - Klon
16:15 - Analog Man - King of Tone
16:48 - Nobels - ODR-1
18:07 - Redo / Ibanez - Tube Screamer
18:29 - Klon
18:39 - Stand outs / Nobels - ODR-1
18:50 - Ibanez - Tube Screamer
19:07 - Analog Man - King of Tone
19:25 - Results of old pedal test
20:40 - More modern pedals / Test setup
22:35 - MXR - Timmy / Brighter hands (Ford Thurston)
23:49 - KingTone - HeavyHand
25:05 - Pedaltrain - Nightlight Distortion
25:25 - Comparison: HeavyHand vs. Nightlight / Cars - Dangerous Type
27:50 - Strymon - Sunset / Randy Rhoads - Crazy Train
30:36 - Browne Amplification - Atom / Atom vs. Nightlight
32:15 - Results of new pedal test
33:45 - Nobels vs. Nobels / Differences
38:10 - Clean sound
38:40 - Marshall - Bluesbreaker
39:17 - Roger Mayer - Voodoo-1 / Michael Landau
40:32 - Nobels vs. Nobels test setup
41:11 - Nobels mini (4)
41:43 - Nobels (2) / Mini (4) vs. (2)
42:45 - Nobels (1)
43:08 - Nobels (2)
43:26 - Nobels (3)
44:11 - Swapped pots
44:30 - (3) vs. (1)
45:00 - Mini (4) vs. (1)
46:00 - Roger Mayer - Voodoo-1 (palate cleanser) / Runthrough test
47:15 - Pedal runthrough
50:28 - Results of the Nobels / Runthrough again with matched volume
Notes
Uncle Larry doing a blind pedal shootout where it is absolutely impossible to “listen with your eyes” like people sometimes do....special thank you to all the sweet friends who helped put this video together....credit list below.
Starring
Ryan Nixon and Brett Moore from guitareffectspedals.com
https://www.guitareffectspedals.com
And:
Barry O Neal and Greg Walton from XTS pedalboards
tone.com/info/">https://xacttone.com/info/
March 16th, 2023
Homeskoolin' VOLUME 200!!!! "A Special Treat"
Chapters00:00 - Intro 200th episode / Pacifico and wine
03:08 - Homeskoolin' thanks / Dann Huff as a producer
06:18 - Collaboration and dictatorship / No right way to finish line
12:24 - Moment knew when making big
15:45 - Dann's take on guitar tone
18:00 - Dann bought Tom's pedalboard
18:53 - No greatest tone / Leslie West story
21:00 - Van Halen (tuning)
23:15 - Midrange / Small guitar tones
27:00 - Cool Dann story (Van Halen)
30:50 - Bass content with guitars
34:00 - Most genious overdubbing
35:50 - Great guitar tones / Billy Gibbons stories and Guthrie Trapp
38:19 - Great tones continued / Billy Gibbons - Jesus Just Left Chicago
41:16 - Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile
43:08 - 50% more distortion / Distortion and guitar
47:22 - Marshall Plexi tone / Foreigner - Hot Blooded / Greatest power chord Foreigner - Juke Box Hero
53:45 - Roxy Music - Love is the Drug solo
55:55 - That one note of Steely Dan
58:10 - Cooper Time Cube - 100 ft of garden hose (doubling effect) / Joe Walsh - Life's Been Good
63:10 - Steve Miller Band
Notes
One of my favorite humans on this planet
Sweet Dann Huff
March 14th, 2023
Homeskoolin' Bonus "Super Echo Twin"
Chapters00:00 - Jamming away on the Silvertone
02:35 - '64 Ampeg Super Echo Twin ET2
Notes
You gotta admit...people really knew how to name shit back in the 50's and 60's...
I mean..."super echo twin"...how bad ass is that???
Fender Stratocaster and Telecaster
Vibrolux and Tremolux
Think about what Ford was coming up with:
Ford Galaxie 500...Mustang...Falcon....Fairlane
and then there was
Chevy:
Camaro (which a lot of people don't realize is a little used Spanish word for "friend")
Impala....Corvette...Nomad....
AMC Rambler
Buick Skylark
Pontiac Tempest and GTO with fuckin' Tri-Power Ram Air
Plymouth Barracuda and Fury
Dodge Coronet with a goddamn Hemi Six Pack
I'm talking some bad ass names for some seriously awesome shit right here people.
Airstream
Chris Craft
You get what i'm saying.....
or maybe it was just that all the cool names weren't already taken back in those days.
Now we have "Veloster"..."Tiguan"...."Prius"..."Swift"
We are doomed
and totally unrelated...
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January 5th, 2023
Homeskoolin’ Volume 183, Tom Bukovac, “But I Never Sarrr Them Winging”
Chapters00:00 - Tranquil playing
02:39 - Hello, friends! / Gildan
03:30 - Stuffed toy
04:53 - Real estate agent
08:15 - Whackiness and friends
10:00 - The ole garage
10:47 - Pool and swimming
11:47 - Encompassing life
12:45 - Spontaneous fucking around videos
13:36 - Yards
15:30 - Find gear what works for you
16:25 - Various guitars vs. one / George Gruhn
17:53 - Billy Gibbons
19:16 - Gear doesn't matter
20:45 - Good guitar player can play anything
21:20 - Perfect pitch and great musician
21:45 - Jimi Hendrix thoughts / Little playing
23:43 - Lesson: Tritone substitution
Notes
Rant away Larry…rant away....
oh, and here's a song everyone should know
https://youtu.be/xydgLftj3M0
September 14th, 2022
Homeskoolin’ Volume 165, Tom Bukovac, “Flutter And Wow”
Chapters00:00 - Hello, class! / Video intro about loop building lesson / '62 Strat
01:17 - Loop: Starting the loop
02:04 - Loop: Changing loops
04:02 - Get the bass / Tuning
05:38 - Lesson: Chords and progression
07:30 - Harmony H22 hollowbody bass
07:56 - Loop: Bass recording and play along
10:49 - Getting ready to solo / Looper
11:40 - Loop: Practice soloing
13:00 - Marshall 50-watt Combo Amp / Cleaning it up
13:45 - Loop: Restarting the loop for solo
16:35 - Tone (pickup, pedals)
17:34 - Loop: Take 1 soloing
20:33 - Summarizing
Notes
Uncle Larry takes the class along on a leisurely stroll to looptown….with a cameo appearance by his son’s old Harmony H-22 hollowbody bass.
Ampluhmicatiun provided by a ‘78 Marshall JMP 50 watt 2x12” combo with master volume.
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Thank you for watching friends, i mean it
September 12th, 2022
Homeskoolin’ Volume 163, Tom Bukovac, “Charcuterie & Crudite Blues”
Chapters00:00 - Raw pickin' and chuggin' intro
03:40 - Hello, class! / Being back home / Upcoming gigs and musicians
06:00 - Jim Irsay private plane and hotel
09:10 - Danny Nucci
10:00 - Buddy Guy encounter
12:08 - Harmony Silvertone Jupiter / h47 Stratotone guitar (1423)
15:00 - Lesson: Nastiest G Minor 6th chord (Bluesy Pentatonic)
Notes
A brief discussion on how once you fly private one time, you’re basically ruined for life. And….a look at how nasty a minor 6th can be.
September 6th, 2022
Homeskoolin’ Volume 162, Tom Bukovac, “You Guys In A Band??”
Chapters00:00 - Beautiful playing
01:43 - Hello, lads and lasses / Back home / Thanks
02:29 - Acoustic guitar Martin D-28
03:00 - Maton acoustic guitar
04:45 - Amazing Dawgs, bandmates, and being in a band
08:40 - Gambling / Spam and YouTube filters
09:54 - Bonus footage
Notes
Television's own Uncle Larry, absolutely exuberant about finally being home and being reunited with his trusty old '38 bone…waxes rhapsodic about that one thing we have ALL thought about since we were little kids….what it's like to really be in a band.
(and now, shift to "first person")
Now that touring is finally calming down and fall is on the way (praise God) it's time to put some focus on some projects that i started on a while back, such as this little instrumental EP that dear Guthrie Trapp and myself are putting together…it's so much fun.....here’s a little snippet from one of the three tracks we already have "in the can"....gonna go back in soon and do some more.
Also, I couldn’t help but add in a few other crazy things at the end of this vid...a dumb meme that cracks me up... " I AM THE JUAN PERCENT"....oh and my alltime favorite thing that my sweet little boy Leo ever drew for his dear old dad….a totally random partial list he made at school one day of some of our favorite songs we like to jam in the car…precious keepsake.
"you got another thing comin"
"black sabbath"
"hot rod lincoln"
"iron man"
"rock and roll music"
"yellow submarine"
"starship trooper"
"hard day's nite"
"breakin' the law"
"don't stand so close to me"
"behind my camel" (instrumental by the police off zenyatta mondatta)
and one more i could never read
Thanks again for supporting the channel folks….i am doing everything legally allowed to show you guys whatever i can…absolutely free of charge of course. Why am i doing it? Because music has been really good to me in this life, and i feel like it’s the right thing to do to give it all back to a bunch of total strangers...
i hope you guys know how much i sincerely appreciate the little community we have built here …. ya’ know, except for a few kids in the back of the room that get a little too excited at times (like Brock Thomas....man what a tool) we got something very real going here….i for one do not take it for granted.
Rock on cats
April 25th, 2022
Homeskoolin’ Volume 140, Tom Bukovac, “List Of Things To Do In The Morning”
Chapters00:00 - Amazing playing as always
02:13 - Hey friends! / Writing tunes
03:38 - Time constraint vs experiementing with songs
05:58 - Open tunings
06:14 - Play a song over and over/ Tedious, long hours
09:41 - Strings / Open G Tuning
11:02 - Bar chord, hammer on lesson
11:48 - Devilish sounding guitar in Open G lesson
13:45 - Zeppelin-ish song for Ann Wilson lesson
14:29 - "It's all been done before" / Clever ways to make it fresh
15:14 - Great story about Reese Wyman / "Every note was new"
08:04 - The Devil's lick lesson
Notes
1) breakfast
2) put dishes in sink
3) brush your teeth and fix your hair
4) put your homework in your school bag
5) make sure you have your chromebook laptop AND the charger
And then…get out your ‘38 bone and get to work
Thank you guys for keeping the Homeskoolin’ dream alive….hope you are learning a TON from these videos….have you all visited the night time drop box at the musicians union yet?
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February 28th, 2022
Homeskoolin’ Volume 130, Tom Bukovac, “Involuntary Wah Face”
Chapters00:00 - Jamming some unexpected changes with wah
02:15 - Hello, class!
03:55 - VCB / ES-335 and other guitars
04:20 - '60 Gibson ES-335
04:55 - Keeping guitars around / Naming guitars / Great guitars
06:54 - Best guitar pedal ever made?
09:26 - Guess this song
10:24 - Makes me want to quit / Mistakes
12:07 - Pet Peeves (mini pedals, guitar locks, amps, old guitars)
17:00 - Def Leppard - "Bringin' Home the Heartbreak" analysis
Notes
It has been scientifically proven that no person on earth can play a wah without simultaneously moving their mouth.
Larry rambles on here about basically everything except Russia invading the Ukraine
Thank you guys for your continued partronage of the show. If you guys truly are learning something from watching a man self destruct before your very eyes, then please by all means, throw a little something in the tip jar. If you’re not and you think the show is complete bollocks then don’t.
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December 28th, 2021
Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Local Family Owned Sustainable Blues”
Chapters00:00 - Mesmerizing playing
Notes
A brief look at some of the things possible with an old Teisco made Silvertone TG-1 guitar with the built in .00000000000000000001 watt amp.
Thank you dear Homeskoolers for tuning in and saying such nice things to Larry.
Thank you for choosing to watch THESE videos when you are just one click away from watching a myriad of OTHER videos on youtube… videos of extremely scantily clad women “playing” guitars or pianos in that grey area blurred world of “youtube music porn”…
“Men of culture, we meet again”
Heres a bunch of drop D slide licks you can steal for free….sorry im not wearing a dress.
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November 24th, 2021
Homeskoolin’ Volume 116, Tom Bukovac, “Slow Cooker”
Chapters00:00 - Melodic playing to loop with solo
03:35 - Hello, class!
04:05 - Thanks, kindly
04:35 - Viewer Comment Bin (VCB)
04:42 - Can you cook? / Slow cooker
05:28 - Chess?
06:25 - Newer music you like?
07:40 - Marriage proposal
09:15 - Fender Mustang
09:42 - Loop lesson
Notes
Happy Thanksgiving to all you dear Homeskoolers….
Love Unc
Heres the link to my new record lads https://tombukovac.bandcamp.com/album/plexi-soul
July 22nd, 2021
Homeskoolin’ Volume 108, Tom Bukovac, “Reverb Math”
Chapters00:00 - Slow ambient jam
02:17 - Hello, class!
04:37 - Baritone strings / Gauge
05:29 - Wrapping strings
06:28 - Jerry Jones Neptune Longhorn Baritone / A tuning
07:40 - Gibson Eb-2D Bass garage sale
Notes
Hello class, just a brief exploratory look at baritone guitars….keep in mind, EVERY guitar sounds cool when you tune it down low enough. Props to John Scott from Bluesman Vintage guitars in Nashville. You may want to contact him if you like lightweight guitars…the Strat he had with him yesterday was literally the lightest Strat i have ever felt in my entire life…5 pounds tops.
If you guys want either of the two instruments from Uncle Larrys Garage Sale just email me at tombukovac@gmail.com
Buyer pays all shipping
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May 21st, 2021
Homeskoolin’ Quick Update, “Hot Dogs & Miller High Life”
Chapters00:00 - House construction
00:30 - Tone Talk
00:59 - 501chorusecho.com blog
01:27 - Little finger exercise lesson
Notes
Heres the two links cats: https://youtu.be/5u1SEI9KS3E
http://501chorusecho.com/
If trying to play that lick with the middle, ring and little fingers doesn't make you feel like you are trapped inside a plastic bag then you're doing it wrong.
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May 19th, 2021
Homeskoolin’ Volume 106, Tom Bukovac, “Them Damn Pinkertons”
Chapters00:00 - Straight rockin' intro jam
02:44 - Hello, class! / Isolation.com
04:24 - Bitcoin
05:15 - VCB / Singer's voice in your head?
06:21 - Improve tone with fingers?
07:04 - Humbuckers into a clean amp touch
09:56 - Adjustments to touch
11:27 - YouTube videos you like to watch?
13:24 - '78 B.C. Rich Super Eagle (built in preamp)
Notes
A lengthy discussion on the MOST important kind of tone....like when you take the gear outta the equation.
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April 25th, 2021
Homeskoolin’ Volume 103, Tom Bukovac, “Herkermer Pushbroom”
Chapters00:00 - Def Leppard - Bringin On The Heartbreak intro
01:32 - Hello, class! / Genius guitar parts
02:26 - House party / Rolling Stones / Fine music
03:56 - Busy schedule
04:25 - VCB / Play what the song needs
06:50 - Wish some songs were different / Suggestions
07:36 - Major and minor connection - "Not how I approach" lesson
09:15 - Rare gear exception - Speakers / Pickups
11:50 - '51 Fender Precision Bass / 1st year for fretted bass
Notes
A brief chat on the art of making records and a look into the VCB
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January 24th, 2021
Homeskoolin’ Volume 87, Tom Bukovac, “The Big Apple”
Chapters00:00 - Mellow intro riffage
02:42 - Hello, class!
04:00 - Rolling Rock guitar
04:30 - Viewer Comment Bin
04:52 - Chess / Agadmator
06:06 - Proud of material / Chris Donahoe - My Boy
07:23 - Aaron Frazer record
07:59 - Chops vs. Tone / Tone is everything
10:01 - "Just work at it"
10:54 - Strings do you use? D'Addario
11:43 - Punk or garage phase? / NYC - CBGB
14:36 - Riff / Moody chord / Suspended soloing lesson
Notes
Hey guys, here’s a not so brief chat on many things....here are some of the things i mentioned in this video if you are so inclined to check them out...if anyone can post links that would be very sweet.
1) Track i played acoustic on before falling gravely ill a few years back... "My Boy" by Chris Donahoe (available on spotify)
2) amazing chess teacher... "Agadmator" on youtube
3) extremely influential record of my youth... Life Sex & Death "The Silent Majority"
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October 23rd, 2020
Homeskoolin’ Volume 76, Tom Bukovac, “Common Tones For The Common Man”
Chapters00:00 - Light loop intro jam
02:47 - Hello, class!
03:25 - Band name / Anonymity at risk
06:13 - Viewer Comment Bin / Ultimate tone?
09:55 - Connecting chords lesson
Notes
This is just a little tune i made up titled "I Always Pictured You Wearing Pants"
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