July 6th, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Special Treat…Bryan Sutton

Chapters
00:00 - Bryan Sutton advice on acoustic guitars


Notes
What a special day kids….of the finest acoustic guitar players to ever breathe air joined us today… Bryan Sutton…what a bad ass…stick around all the way through. There is some absolutely RIPPIN’ guitar playing at the end and great wisdom throughout.

Thank you Bryan

July 5th, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Quadra Bass”

Chapters
00:00 - Keyboard playing


Notes
Just a little jam idea for the next record….can’t you just hear it already finished in all of it’s grand grandness??

Just a brief demonstration of the awesome power of one of the coolest analog synths of all time…the Arp Quadra

Special shout out to Nick Wood for reviving this ancient monster to it’s former glory.

July 3rd, 2022

Homeskoolin’ PSA

Chapters
00:00 - PSA


Notes
Check it out tonite kids! https://youtu.be/aGmhFmtzMP0

July 1st, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Volume 155, Tom Bukovac, “Bubba’s Big Jam”

Chapters
00:00 - Some jammin playing
01:23 - Intro...Hello, class! / Thanks
03:01 - Special "Fuck Off to that guy"
03:32 - Viewer appreciation
04:16 - Getting sentimental / Joe Walsh / Greg Sarley
06:41 - Big Jam Distortion
07:56 - Pre Rocked Pedals
08:25 - Big Jam pedal demonstration
10:53 - Turning up the gain
11:24 - "into hair band guitar players?"
12:23 - Rainbow Room
12:45 - More of the Big Jam
13:30 - Playing an open ringing string with finger picking


Notes
A little tribute to the guy who got me into all this shit…

Gregor Sarlija…

Which turned into Greg Sarley at Ellis Island…

Which turned into Bubba P on prospect ave in the 70s

The progenator of the Multivox Big Jam Distortion pedal

If you are enjoying this insanity please hit the tip jar
Paypal tombukovac@gmail.com
Venmo @Tom-Bukovac-1

Oh, and there’s trivia too: Name the asshead that came up with this famous quote
“Did you ever notice how all of Tom’s “dear friends” are selling something”

July 1st, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Suggestion For Alternate Law And Order Theme”

Chapters
00:00 - Some keyboard playing for TV shows


Notes
Sometimes in my free time i like to come up with possible alternate theme ideas to popular shows. What do you guys think?

July 1st, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Today’s Homework Winner”

Chapters
00:00 - Answer back from viewer


Notes
Ok, so when i casually suggested earlier today that maybe some of you guys might try taking a stab at goofing around with that tricky tune i put up this afternoon called “Theory’s Ways”, i was NOT expecting someone to come along and play it cold, fucking dead on note for note.

Well this cat sure as hell did…his name is Lidor Elimelich. He has been a Homeskooler since the beginning.

I am knocked out that he got all the little details EXACTLY right….and that thing is NOT easy to play.

Right on bro…nice work

June 30th, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “The Scuffle”

Chapters
00:00 - Upbeat playing


Notes
A brief look at some altered pyschobilly possibilities for guitar…in the south they refer to that strange land between straight time and shuffle time as “scuffle”…like a wobbly wheel goin down the road…its also a whole lotta fun

June 30th, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Theory's Ways”

Chapters
00:00 - Interesting passage


Notes
I originally titled this "Progathon" but a Homeskooler named Gb Seventy3 pointed out that "Theory's Ways" is clearly what it SHOULD be called...thanks for that my friend.

See, you guys think I’m a “prog freak”…but here’s the thing you don’t understand. The ONLY prog i was ever into was just these three bands…Genesis, Yes and Jethro Tull….the rest of it i honestly couldn’t care less about.

Of course I respect all the others (like ELP, King Crimson, Gentle Giant etc etc etc) but i was never into it.

Here’s a little thing i wrote a loooong time ago…I’ve had the A and B sections of this tune floating around in my head since i was in my early 30’s (i remember writing it in some hotel room on the road in the 90’s)…i just added the C section on today so i could tart it out for you guys.

It doesn’t look all that hard, but it’s EXTREMELY difficult to play….a lesson in itself of letting strings ring clearly whilst fretting other notes…. In fact if anyone out there can pull this off convincingly note for note i JUST MIGHT even send then a nice comfy Homeskoolin t shirt on the house haha

Thanks for watching and supporting the channel friends…oh and fuck off Axel

June 30th, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Starship Lullaby”

Chapters
00:00 - Touching playing from the heart


Notes
“I always wanted to do a collection of my acoustic numbers with the London Philharmonic…”

June 29th, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Session B Roll, “The Bass Capo”

Chapters
00:00 - Recording with bass capo


Notes
Session bassist Jacob Lowrey demonstrating a device that was originally pioneered by the legendary Jimmie Lee Sloas….the “bass capo”.

Jacob is lucky to be trying ANY type of capo after a incident that took place a few months ago where he fell through a roof and broke everything rib related in his body.

Also starring:
David “Bird Dog” Dorn
Drew Winn
Chris Utley
Shawn Fichter