April 27th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 431, Tom Bukovac, “Hazy Hot Brazilian Slabs”

00:00 - Ole buddy Rick
02:07 - '60 Fender Telecaster Custom / Glazer saddles
02:32 - LiquiSlide / Don't be a dick if you want someone to come to your funeral
04:39 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / What 'wear' do you like on strings?
05:24 - Drummers with too much dampening on kick drum
06:03 - Flatwounds on a Precision Bass / Dead strings
09:13 - Middle sounds on the Les Paul Goldtop / Price of old guitars sucks
11:15 - Bench videos
11:48 - Harmony H22 bass
13:25 - Slab board
16:32 - Van Halen - Unchained
Notes
Uncle Larry restrings a Golden Age Of Fullerton classic and answers some recent VCB....
i don't know why this video is a bit "hazy"....but it reminds me of a foggy cleveland fall morning
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April 26th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 430, Tom Bukovac, “Neckrestphilia”

00:00 - Hello, friends / Neck rests
02:25 - LiquiSlides
03:40 - Harmony H22 bass / Fender Precision Bass - Lake Placid Blue
05:18 - Stalker Guy
07:32 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Favorite all-time artists / Beatles & David Bowie
14:47 - Different styles of music
21:00 - Stretching out the strings
24:14 - Tuning
25:05 - Playing through Fender Tweed Deluxe amp / Stalker Guy
26:32 - PAFs
Notes
Uncle Larry proudly shows off his extensive collection of neck rests…
We are closing in on the 120K subscriber mark my dear friends…thank you for your generous support of the channel and for helping bring chords back to music
April 25th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 429, Tom Bukovac, “No Singer Left Behind”

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”

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"

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”

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”

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”

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)”

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”

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