April 25th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 429, Tom Bukovac, “No Singer Left Behind”

Chapters
00:00 - Acoustic playing
02:26 - Hi, friends! / Working
04:46 - Helping others make records
06:03 - Gibson J-200 / Recording mojo / Changed out bridge
08:05 - Nashville resources
09:11 - Donnie Iris - Ah Leah / Producer Mark Avsec
13:46 - Keith Whitley - Don't Close Your Eyes / Transcendentally out of tune / Garth Fundis
18:25 - Pro Tools
22:36 - Working on something truly unique / Freddy Mercury
24:55 - Pet Sematary (movie)
25:54 - Vince Gill / Jedd Hughes


Notes
Uncle Larry lays out the AGE OLD moral dilemma of that dark world where technology, creativity and music meet.

April 23rd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “Feet…And Dots Of Clay”

Chapters
00:00 - Blues
03:19 - Checking in and thanks / Brett Papa
04:28 - Guitar is screaming through Deluxe
06:30 - Playing: Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild
06:45 - Pool cleaners


Notes
Uncle Larry with some altered blooze on a 63 tele...and a reminder of the upcoming subscription course that is on the horizon

April 21st, 2025

Homeskoolin' Volume 428, Tom Bukovac, "The Illusion Of Time"

Chapters
00:00 - Some tricky guitar swinging
02:28 - Hey friends! / Playing and singing
03:50 - Hi friends! Take two / Josh Rawlings
04:57 - Gibson J-50
05:51 - Session fuzz bass
06:28 - The Beatles - The Word odd things in the song / "What Makes This Song Weird?"
07:22 - Minor chord over the major chord
08:30 - The bass part
08:49 - Minor vocals
09:07 - The time changes
11:52 - Out of time, but together
13:49 - '56 Gibson J-50 and cool story Keith Whitley
15:44 - Thanks / Eddie Van Halen guitar
17:19 - Sometimes leave the guitar alone


Notes
Uncle Larry talks about time...and great things from Britain...and Kalamazoo...

Editors note...sorry the audio clips from the rubber soul record are "a bit bright" as we like to say in the studio hahaa

April 14th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ “A Heartwarming Human Interest Story”

Chapters
00:00 - Four Leaf Clover revoice and mixture or good tunes
03:26 - Leo Ellis and getting his pedalboard back!
06:17 - Brett Papa / Dan Huff
07:00 - Playing


Notes
There are still good people out there friends


Stand up and take a bow Larry Goetz

April 12th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “Enter Mr. Sandman”

Chapters
00:00 - Revoicing Mr. Sandman


Notes
Uncle Larry wistfully reviews some fairly common classic Western Swing “rhythm changes” with a hint of Desert Soul

April 12th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 427, Tom Bukovac, “Lake Placid Blues”

Chapters
00:00 - D'Addario mat
03:29 - Paul Reed Smith "...kinda guy he is" story / Leo Ellis
09:00 - Endorsement thing
14:18 - Gordon Mote and being a master
28:54 - Stalker Guy


Notes
Uncle Larry sheds some light on some of the impressive humanitarian work that certain people in our little world of guitar culture have been up to lately....

and...i think the video i did recently where i interviewed Dann Huff is coming out tomorrow on Brett Papa's channel friends so keep an eye out for that friends.
AND....the subscription course i am working on with Brett is VERY close to being finished.

Thanks again to Robert Cunningham and the boys at D'Addario

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April 11th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 426, Tom Bukovac, “Stuff We Should All Know…(but probably don’t)”

Chapters
00:00 - Coming up with good chord progressions
00:45 - Lesson: Common tone (Eb chord) / Gordon playing
02:22 - Lesson: Ebmaj7 -> D / Sharp 11
04:30 - Lesson: Alternate 4 chord in a progression (1625 = I vi ii V)
05:05 - "One everything" (I iii VII) / Sharp V
06:02 - "Make it make sense" / "Twist their ear"
06:45 - Lesson: Working in Cycle of Fifths [Circle of Fifths]
07:41 - Piano voicing
08:31 - The Doobie Brothers - Taking to the Streets changing the voicing / Michael McDonald / Be healthy
11:11 - Final message from Gordon
12:33 - Eddie Rabbitt
14:48 - Inherent piano tuning / Perfect pitch


Notes
Gordon Mote shows us the REAL stuff here friends…

using common tones to come up with interesting chord changes in an otherwise mundane world….

This stuff right here is literally the final stop on the way to becoming a TRULY deadly musician friends…but sadly, only a VERY small percentage of musicians ever graduate to this level of harmonic knowledge…
being able to reharmonize at this level is a very rare gift…
of all the amazing skills and tricks that a person can learn in the wide world of music , there is absolutely nothing that impresses me personally more than this …the ability to effortlessly re-harmonize

Put on your helmets friends because you will NOT find this kinda shit over on the Low IQ Channel or on the Gearpage my dear boys

April 9th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 425, Tom Bukovac, “This Week In Rock”

Chapters
00:00 - All over the neck
06:56 - Hello, friends! / Cracking that first beer / Playing
09:00 - Working week / Being the older session person
12:40 - Wynonna Judd
15:55 - Vince Gill
16:50 - Nick Gorvik release


Notes
Uncle Larry reporting in with a very busy week in show biz.

….and for your entertainment…here is one of the greatest moments in human history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qN6HN5TGn0

April 6th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ “Music To Sleep To”

Chapters
00:00 - You read it


Notes
Put this on when you’re ready to crash tonite after two glasses of red wine and a couple episodes of forensic files

April 6th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 424, Tom Bukovac, “Sunday Morning Acoustic Shootout"

Chapters
00:00 - Strumming
01:38 - Hello, friends! / Playing
02:40 - Lesson: Unexpected cool chords
06:25 - '64 Gibson J-50
06:56 - Martin D-28 Age Authentic
10:17 - J-50
11:15 - '64 Gibson J-200
13:14 - The Who and cell phones banned rant
16:05 - '43 Gibson J-45 Banner Head Mahogany
21:38 - J-45 Banner Head
21:59 - J-200
22:24 - D-28
22:50 - J-50
23:22 - Lesson: "What song are we playing"


Notes
Uncle Larry explores the dark corners some sweet old acoustics on a nice relaxing Sunday morning....grab a nice coffee and enjoy the ride.

friends....why do we all have all these different instruments?

is it an obsession? maybe

is it because we never know what song we are gonna be playing next? probably

if you are indeed enjoying this fine Sunday morning sermon, the collection plate is being passed through the aisles

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