April 28th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 432, Tom Bukovac, “Mink Tweed”

Chapters
00:00 - Hot P90 through Fender Tweed Deluxe
01:57 - Fender Tweed Deluxe
03:03 - Volume on 3 / Being in tune on '59
03:36 - Volume on 2
04:02 - Volume on 1.5
04:55 - Volume even lower
05:34 - Fender Telecaster Custom
06:13 - Wacken Festival with Ann Wilson
07:17 - Volume on anemic
07:31 - Volume on 2
07:46 - Volume on 3
07:54 - Volume on 4
08:06 - Crossroads movie with Ralph Macchio and Steve Vai
08:45 - Back to the Junior / If the last guitar sound I ever had / Playing
09:40 - Lesson: Double bends
14:26 - '59 Gibson Les Paul Junior in tune
15:24 - Music City Bridge Stud Finder


Notes
Uncle Larry gives it to ya straight about the timeless greatness of the fender tweed deluxe

An amplifier that EVERY guitar player should own

April 27th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 431, Tom Bukovac, “Hazy Hot Brazilian Slabs”

Chapters
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”

Chapters
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”

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