May 6th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 4-4-2, Tom Bukovac, “Supercharged”

Chapters
00:00 - Behind the scenes concert gig
01:43 - Dodge Durango Hellcat
02:57 - Playing
05:14 - "Hello...?" pickup
06:55 - Chord just fell out
07:16 - John Fogerty tour with Tina Turner
08:29 - John never warms up voice - "I just trust it"
09:00 - Dodge Durango Hellcat
10:00 - '68 Fender Telecaster
11:10 - Microphonic pickups / Wax potting
13:33 - Lesson: Roy Nichols turnaround
15:44 - Trivia Question: No mudcap tele.  1st year Fender went to modern wiring?


Notes
Uncle Larry provides the standard fare of riffs you can pirate and not give me credit for.

Eddie Dunlap on that weird table guitar contraption

May 6th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 441, Tom Bukovac, “Joggers In The Fog”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing
03:45 - Hello, friends
04:52 - Morning check-in / VCB (Viewer Comment Bin)
06:00 - Diane Warren song (Taylor Dayne)
08:37 - Lesson: Playing
10:10 - Vince Gill / Playing songs like an apple
12:42 - Durango Hellcat
13:27 - Tinnitus?
14:15 - Parent a grown ass man
15:22 - Playing


Notes
Uncle Larry answers some VCB before shuffling off to the mill.

May 5th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 440, Tom Bukovac, “The 5th Of May”

Chapters
00:00 - One of those great tangents
08:29 - Hi friends / Fender Vibro Champ Reverb
11:11 - EVO SRO (Electro-Voice)
12:00 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Bought a Hellcat Durango
12:57 - Liqui Slide
13:15 - Strymon Timeline
14:16 - Boss SDE-3000
14:45 - Hotel rooms and Dodge Durango Hellcat color (Destroyer Gray)
15:38 - The Essential Craftsman (YouTube channel)
17:42 - Play with humor and grace / Like a little bit of mess
19:00 - Vince Gill rehearsals


Notes
Happy birthday Bub!

if you guys like rock and roll, you can always throw something in the tip jar
my PayPal is tombukovac@gmail.com
my venmo is @Tom-Bukovac-1

and totally unrelated...how crazy is this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9u5xUFEDQQ

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 3rd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 438, Tom Bukovac, “Common Tones For The Common Man Part Deaux”

Chapters
00:00 - Frankensteen
01:16 - Hello, friends
02:13 - Common tones in chords
02:42 - Music no matter where is at (commercial, video game, etc.)
03:35 - "One Hour Photo" (Robin Williams movie) / Study song
05:00 - Song "Johnny Klimek - End Titles (Sy's Theme)"
07:00 - Lesson: Chord progression of song (Fmin -> E6 -> B6 -> Bbdom7 -> Gmin9 -> F#6 -> C#6 -> C7)
13:42 - Lesson: Twisting your ear / Beck's father and string arrangements
15:27 - 1645 (the I vi IV V)
19:15 - Lesson: The use of 6ths


Notes
Uncle Larry learns ya some shit

May 2nd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 437, Tom Bukovac “Ten Gallon Hat”

Chapters
00:00 - Somber plucking around
06:53 - Just Larry from the Opry playing through the Ebo Spring Verb
08:17 - New looper pedal
10:43 - Jedd Hughes and the Grand Ole Opry
11:57 - Lesson: Show you a lick with the claw method


Notes
fresh from the Opry , Uncle Larry gives ya a little western swang with a touch of Kalamazoo...


trust me on this friends...if you REALLY ARE serious about your music, you absolutely MUST look into buying one of these absolutely magical devices...

you: "what is it Larry?"
me: "just the best sounding tube spring reverb in the history of mankind that's all"

https://www.ebocustoms.com/new-products/e-verb-studio-2

and lastly...

check this out friends....back when we were lean and hungry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDKU-0_EqR4

May 2nd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 436, Tom Bukovac, “Back In The Compensated Saddle”

Chapters
00:00 - Demonstration of Music City saddles / '63 Fender Telecaster
03:30 - '64 Fender Telecaster Custom
05:29 - '60 Fender Telecaster / The Who
06:47 - Lesson: Jefferson Airplane basic Music Theory
10:12 - Metallica & Pantera show
10:36 - Lesson: Beatles love of major and minor 3rd at same time


Notes
If you don’t already have a set of Music City Bridge Groovemaster Tele saddles, you are a naughty naughty boy

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 30th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam, Tom Bukovac, “Try The Crab Rangoon”

Chapters
00:00 - Quacking on the Dean Z


Notes
‘Spress yourseff…

April 30th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Garage Sale “Upper Tax Bracket Edition”

Chapters
00:00 - Gibson ES-335 for sale
03:36 - Playing
07:13 - Do not want to ship
07:46 - Playing


Notes
Uncle Larry throws one out there for the older own your own business type crowd.

Email me at tombukovac@gmail.com if interested

I did forget to mention, the original crumbled mummy toe tuners are in the case…nice repros currently on it

I would LOVE to sell this local and not ship friends

I would consider shipping ONLY if someone was willing to pay 500 to cover next day air