December 7th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “Sleeping World”

Chapters
00:00 - Sliding on home


Notes
Uncle Larry rides on the energy of the huge yellow moon that lit up the sky tonite in my little town.

December 4th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Quickie “New Record Teaser”

Chapters
00:00 - Recording some tunes


Notes
I’m suuuuuuper excited about the new solo record I am working on with Matty Alger and Brett Papa…we are about halfway through it and extremely happy with the results so far

As I have said many times…the power of collaboration is my favorite thing in all of music

Here’s a little half finished snippet of an Uncle Larry classic from the old days that get electrified in 2025

December 3rd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 534, Tom Bukovac, “Osmondmosis”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing
06:38 - Hello, friends! / Marie Osmond and Vince Gill recording
07:51 - Lesson: Only using 2 chords / Outline the chord
09:43 - Products (straps, capos)
11:32 - Lesson: The Claw to grab notes
12:43 - Lesson: Cool Major 7s
14:32 - Major operation on the Goldtop / Mini humbucker put in
15:22 - '70 Marshall Superbass and Marshall Straight Cab / Uncle Larry's Garage Sale


Notes
Uncle Larry recaps a busy session day and plays ya some deep cut stratospheric blues on a 52 goldie through an embarrassingly clean 1970 super bass 100

If you ever wondered if Marie Osmond was a cool person or not, I can tell you for sure without a doubt that she is..

2 more days left to get the course for 179 bucks friends and here are the details
Grab the Course for a BIG 40% Off: https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...
Make sure to use coupon code 2025BF for the discount!

December 1st, 2025

Bachelor Cooking With Uncle Larry (Volume 5)

Chapters
00:00 - Pork roast stew


Notes
Uncle Larry shows you that even a guitar player can make a nice pork roast in the slow cooker

Excited about this one friends

Special thanks to Nicky G for the cooking advice

There are SIX MORE DAYS left to get the guitar instructional course I made a while back for a discounted price of 179.00

Here are the details for the upcoming Black Friday sale of the guitar course my friends:
Grab the Course for a BIG 40% Off: https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...
Make sure to use coupon code 2025BF for the discount!

oh...and buddy jolly strikes again hahaaaaa
A Closer Look at Tom Bukovac's Stalker... ...

December 1st, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Discounted Course Runs Through This Friday Blues”

Chapters
00:00 - Gaining up a 355
00:58 - Hey friends! / NFL
02:13 - Course
02:31 - Marshall Superbass 100W / Ear sensitivity
03:56 - '59 Gibson ES-335 / Offset bridge



Notes
Uncle Larry takes a ride on a temporarily guardless 59 355 and shows off a frustratingly clean 70 super bass 100 that obviously never took a rough ride in the back of a lorry

Here are the details for the upcoming Black Friday sale of the guitar course my friends:
Grab the Course for a BIG 40% Off: https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...
Make sure to use coupon code 2025BF for the discount!

November 28th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “How To Get A Floyd Rose Nut To Not Feel Like Shit”

Chapters
00:00 - Joe Glaser's expertise on Floyd Rose nut
05:17 - Music City Bridge tool (Nut Slot Gauge)
06:43 - Nut file vs diamond saw
07:38 - Surgery begins
09:57 - Using a regular drill for nut surgery
11:03 - Reba McEntire's guitar player story


Notes
Starring the immortal Joe Glaser

This guitar feels sooooooo much better than it did when I gave it to him

Maybe you guys can learn something from this

November 25th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 533, Tom Bukovac, “Sneaky Bends”

Chapters
00:00 - Bender magic playing
04:12 - Hello, friends! / Sell you stuff / Sylviu and the voices / 5 years / Fall weather
06:10 - How many days does it take to start fighting in a session?
07:05 - '07 Duesenberg Multibender / Faith Hill
08:45 - Lesson: Multibending and making it sexy
14:41 - Cool piece of gear if used properly will up your game
15:54 - Don't be redundant in your gear choices


Notes
Uncle Larry shows you an old friend that has proven to be an important component of his brief time on this planet .

Here are the details for the upcoming Black Friday sale of the guitar course my friends:

Grab the Course for a BIG 40% Off: https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...
Make sure to use coupon code 2025BF for the discount!

and speaking of history...this is one of the most amazing and well done videos i have ever seen on the YouTubes...fucking FASCINATING shit here friends.
Hats off to the makers of this bad ass video.

What Actually Happened To Amelia Earhart?

November 24th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Black Friday Course Details”

Chapters
00:00 - Exploring the rare colors
01:52 - Hello friends! / Black Friday / NFL / Playing
04:46 - Obessessed with learning history / PBS programming / Ken Burns - Donner Party


Notes
Grab the Course for a BIG 40% Off: https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...
Make sure to use coupon code 2025BF for the discount!

oh...and in case you haven't seen him before, here's that tool that stalks me...
Does Tom Bukovac Have A Stalker? ‎⁨@501cho...

a beginner level guitar player from St Louis named Gus Penny...
he has literally devoted his ENTIRE LIFE to making hate videos about me....
it's pretty fuggin' weird friends, i ain't gonna lie

oh my God this video had me CRYING

if you're ever at a Chinese Buffet in the St Louis area, check out his little one chord white blues trio called "Blues In Babylon"

Gus is one of the best "croakers" on earth...it's like a brand new type of "vocalization" that he developed himself...it has been known to make any species of frog jealous

November 23rd, 2025

Homeskoolin' Volume 532, Tom Bukovac, "The Healer"

Chapters
00:00 - 12 stringing it
00:55 - Try to play it making it sound like a 12 string / Quick vid
01:51 - '75 Guild F412BLD
02:18 - Song used to play with Joe Walsh
02:54 - Josh Rawlings record
05:27 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / "The Healer" of guitars / Playing out how old guitars would talk
10:00 - "Purposely flatted 3rd"?
11:13 - Improving via course
12:09 - Another 3rd thing / Thanks
13:40 - Playing
14:00 - John Cougar guitar player Mike Wanchic / Jim Irsay Band leader and friend


Notes
Black Friday sale!

Grab the Course for a BIG 40% Off: https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...
Make sure to use coupon code 2025BF for the discount!

The weirdness is getting more "intense" shall we say...perhaps more "pronounced"
here is the Spotify link to the new Josh Rawlings "I Fixed It All" record that Uncle Larry produced and played on...check it out friends
https://open.spotify.com/album/1OVEkp...

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i don't ask for much...be honesty now, have you ever once heard me ask you to "subscribe to my channel" or "smash that like button"

my PayPal address: tombukovac@gmail.com
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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