February 4th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “Black Country Ham”

Chapters
00:00 - Some sullen acoustic playing


Notes
Just got home from a lovely evening celebrating GT’s birthday
So nice to see some dear old friends and play some music.
Of course I saddled up and wrote some acoustic shit when i got home.

and totally unrelated, i like this guy, he's got a cool vibe...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbwT3e-z1Bw

February 3rd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 397, Tom Bukovac, “Trappy Birthday”

Chapters
00:00 - Trying out an acoustic and talking about birthday party / Shows
05:11 - George Gruhn enters the picture and a cool bass (George Harrison) / Tons of knowledge coming through
13:45 - Guthrie comparing acoustics


Notes
A little morning visit to Gruhn Guitars in Nashville TN…starring our birthday boy Guthrie Trapp, George Gruhn, Tony Nagy and a pair of ebony rod 43 D-28’s….
hard to beat the sound of that old wood friends

February 2nd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “A Touch Of Velvet”

Chapters
00:00 - Exquisite playing


Notes
Uncle Larry explores the deep somber luxurious sustain of an exquisite hand made set neck solidbody guitar recently purchased from the Ricardo Montalban collection…the meticulously crafted velvet lined case smells of rich Corinthian leather with hints of Lilac, aged mahogany and shag carpet…

February 1st, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “Take Off Your Covers”

Chapters
00:00 - Rockin' some tunes on the Dean


Notes
My dear boy Marshall and I both absolutely FELL IN LOVE with this fantastic old 1980 Dean Z Standard in the fairly rare and exceedingly beautiful “Braziliaburst” today…..

We just couldn’t stop gawking at the thing, so we decided to adopt it and give it a good home

Now the fight is on between who gets to play it here at the crib.

This one is a classic example of that “no covers tone”, or “covers off tone” that I have always been a fan of…
You know, that unmistakable airy bite that you get from a good humbucker with no pickup covers on it…as popularized by every guitar player with a soldering iron in the 70’s.

This guitar also REALLY gives up that “sweetened thirds” thing that EVH made popular…where the thirds on the G and B string are so perfectly squared off in tune that it makes your hair stand up.

The best part is that this fine old instrument was previously owned by one of our favorite people on this entire planet….Mr Greg Voros.

January 30th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Evolution Of An Electronic Drummer”

Chapters
00:00 - Teaching son to play drums


Notes
Well friends, it’s been exactly 2 months since I taught Leo how to cross his hands and play his very first drum beat....that was right before he turned 9 years old…now look at the boy go.

Like I said before, these boys have so much music in their DNA, it’s not really like “teaching”…it’s more like “releasing a fish into water”

January 28th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 396, Tom Bukovac, “Drones Over Nashville”

Chapters
00:00 - Cover song with imitating Pop drums
03:00 - Hello, friends! / Cold Tuesday morning
03:29 - Lesson: Pop drums and strumming
04:14 - Lesson: Roy Orbison strumming
05:39 - Gibson "Banner Head" J-45 / Bridge story / Joe Glaser
07:00 - Peterson Strobe Tuner
08:27 - Flattening the G / Tuning compromises
09:39 - Droning / Jazzy Donald Fagan / Rolling in his grave (Vince Lombardi)
11:45 - Thanks for Silvertone video / 7 days a week work
13:35 - Gibson "Banner Head" J-45


Notes
Uncle Larry beat boxes one of the popular rhythms of the day, and even hearkens back to the days of Roy Orbison .

Special thanks to Adam Chowning and the boys at Glaser for saving this sweet old J-45 that’s had an even harder life than I have .

January 27th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus…”Blues-In-Case”

Chapters
00:00 - Rockin' on some different equipment


Notes
Uncle Larry wants to say thank you to the boys at Music City Vintage in Nashville TN for hookin’ a brother up with a fair deal on an EXTREMELY tidy ‘65 Silvertone 1448 with the straightest neck a man could ever ask for…AND a .00005 watt tube amp built right into the case!

Raise your hand if your first guitar was one of these….

We need to start a new trend of building small modeling amps into modern guitar cases with an iPhone type speaker you can barely hear…that would be fuckin’ cool

January 27th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 395, Tom Bukovac, “The Dregs Of Winter”

Chapters
00:00 - Jimi-esque Blues
04:13 - Rod Stewart? Hey, friends!
05:22 - Hey, friends part 2 / NFL / Taylor Swift / Josh Allen
07:18 - Lesson: Quick pickin lick
07:54 - Goldtop Gibson Les Paul neck pickup
08:36 - Watching NFL
09:35 - Bluesy playing / Whispering guitar / Tweed Deluxe
10:56 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Hiwatt, Sound City, Orange amps / Big Daddy Don Garlits
12:43 - Sustain, not feedback
13:07 - Good guitar through crappy amp or visa versa?
14:34 - Cliche chords and dissing guitar players for using them
14:45 - Lesson: Funk voicing
15:58 - Fun work week...
16:15 - "Guilty" on dissing common guitar voicings... / Be more decisive on your choices
17:55 - Back to Fun work week / Music business / "Old car in Country video"
20:25 - "When will you be happy with your guitar collection?" / Buying, selling guitars to get what you want
22:10 - Lesson: Picking and skipping strings
22:38 - Gibson ES-150 / ES-350 Charlie Christian
23:49 - Passion - going through life without passion
26:23 - "Cool pedal?"
27:24 - Fender Precision Bass color suggestions


Notes
Uncle Larry tries to give some comforting words about the dead zone we are now entering ….now that the season is officially over.

Brace yourself friends…for the dregs of winter

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here's that old hippie refin bass....i forgot it didn't have a guard...been a long time since i've seen this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm_KZSYSiGc

January 25th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “Untitled”

Chapters
00:00 - Plucking into an amazing melody with bass


Notes
Some Saturday morning driving music for the class...i just put this up so i didn't forget it...

just gimme a studio, some coffee with half and half, a good engineer, some synths, a drummer and a cool singer….see ya in a few hours

January 24th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 394, Tom Bukovac, “Electric Mistress Sunset”

Chapters
00:00 - Mellow playing
04:58 - What's Up? / Fun project Dan Auerbach / Miles Kane
08:07 - NFL games
09:00 - What pedal is this? / 70s Electro-Harmonix Electric Mistress
10:30 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Most versatile pickup? / Most versatile guitar?
12:44 - Gretsch Harmon Booster Playboy aka Jen Fuzz
14:13 - Stalker video guy
15:01 - Gangster movies / Martin Scorsese
15:32 - Lesson: Coolest chord min9 / Gm9 [x 10 8 10 10 x] -> Dm9 [x 5 3 5 5 x] -> Cm9 [x 3 1 3 3 x]
18:19 - Lesson: Em9 [0 2 5 0 3 2] variants
21:05 - '63 Fender Telecaster


Notes
Uncle Larry returns to YouTube to discuss one of his favorite chords, one of his favorite guitars, and one of his favorite old pedals with you…

Thumb nail photo taken by Uncle Larry tonite on his way home from work.

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