May 8th, 2021

Homeskoolin’ Saturday Night bonus track...”Smoky Mountain Blues Pt. II”

Chapters
00:00 - Beautiful acoustic playing


Notes
Hello dear class, here’s a little glimpse of a much simpler time...1957...Kalamazoo Michigan... a little free form exploration on an old J-185 that just loves to be played... hope you all have a great weekend.

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April 29th, 2021

Homeskoolin’ Session Update, “A Pretty Good Ear”

Chapters
00:00 - Gordon finds each note on keyboard that Tom plays (Perfect pitch)


Notes
Thursday 4/29/21 at Oceanway Studio in Nashville. My dear friend and legendary piano man Gordon Mote indulging me in another one of my silly childish games.

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April 28th, 2021

Homeskoolin’ Session Update, “The Gridiron and The Choir”

Chapters
00:00 - Session with the choir
02:01 - Touchdown Zack (electric football game)


Notes
4/27/21...day 3 of tracking on Ann Wilson session at Backstage Studio....after a long day of tracking the boys had a moment to kick back, while the choir did their thing on a certain old cover song about “an original sinner born from original sin”

50s Tudor Tru-Action vibrating football still brings the excitement like it did 40 years ago....and yes i also have an old “rod hockey” table game

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April 25th, 2021

Homeskoolin’ Volume 103, Tom Bukovac, “Herkermer Pushbroom”

Chapters
00:00 - Def Leppard - Bringin On The Heartbreak intro
01:32 - Hello, class! / Genius guitar parts
02:26 - House party / Rolling Stones / Fine music
03:56 - Busy schedule
04:25 - VCB / Play what the song needs
06:50 - Wish some songs were different / Suggestions
07:36 - Major and minor connection - "Not how I approach" lesson
09:15 - Rare gear exception - Speakers / Pickups
11:50 - '51 Fender Precision Bass / 1st year for fretted bass


Notes
A brief chat on the art of making records and a look into the VCB

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April 11th, 2021

Homeskoolin’ Volume 102, Tom Bukovac, “Smear Chopper”

Chapters
00:00 - Rock jamming with bends
05:05 - Hello, class!
05:17 - Thanks for 100 & 101 shows
06:00 - "Never fronted a band" / Orbiting
07:16 - Eastlake / Gildan
07:43 - Gibson "Chopper" / Trace Foster
08:47 - Tweed Deluxe / Pedals / Rock playing
09:40 - Duesenberg giveaway at show / Thanks


Notes
Sunday post gig reflections and some gratuitous smears on an ugly old chopper that has stolen my heart.

Sincere thanks to all you Homeskoolers for your undying support.

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April 7th, 2021

Homeskoolin’ Update “Band Practice”

Chapters
00:00 - Band practice


Notes
Behind the scenes like at our band “Dead Palms” getting our shit together for the Friday night gig.
I consider myself exTREMEly lucky to get to play with musicians of this caliber.
Second scene swirling cinematography courtesy of Devin “The Dokta” Blotard.
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April 4th, 2021

Homeskoolin’ Volume 99 1/2, Tom Bukovac, “The New Fifths”

Chapters
00:00 - Slow, mellow greatness
03:36 - Sliding 4ths lesson
04:55 - Hello, Homeskoolers
05:15 - Potentional new scene / playing
06:34 - Thanks / 100th Episode show
07:26 - Sliding 4ths lesson revisited


Notes
It’s just your weird uncle checkin in from sunny downtown Nashville TN to say Happy Easter to my dear Homeskoolin’ class....and to also bore you to sleep with a brief discussion on sliding 4ths.

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April 3rd, 2021

Homeskoolin’ Post Flood Update, “Got A Feelin’ 21 Is Gonna Be A Good Year”

Chapters
00:00 - Flood damage


Notes
In life, there are friends that will help ya move, and then there are friends that will help ya’ move a body..... Cheers to the Dokta, Richard “Devin Blotard” Reith for helping pressure wash the Harpeth River out of the garage of my new bachelor pad. Rich and I (and my two sweet little boys) are having a blast on this beautiful day trying to clean out my badly wounded garage that had a foot of water in it. Life is good friends, I do not plan on letting the waves of divorce and biblical flooding bring me down. Thank you guys SINCERELY for all the kind words and support in the comments from episode 99.

March 28th, 2021

Homeskoolin’ Volume 99, Tom Bukovac, “Blues In Sea”

Chapters
00:00 - Blues soloing
10:24 - Hello, class!
10:45 - Divorce / New house / Flood / Garage
13:31 - Blues in C
15:47 - PRS Cleveland Korina
16:32 - Sessions


Notes
Hello dear class, checkin’ in with some flood and divorce updates....thanks very much to everyone who sent sweet messages being concerned about the recent bad weather.

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I sincerely thank all of you sweet people for watching the show and being so supportive and encouraging over the last year or so of madness.

March 17th, 2021

Homeskoolin’ Volume 98, Tom Bukovac, “Eastlake North Notable Alumni”

Chapters
00:00 - Slow blues intro
03:43 - Strangling the string lesson
04:20 - Hello, class!
04:44 - VCB / Stipe Miocic
06:00 - Don't look at fretboard
07:30 - Pedalboard order
08:52 - Most embarrassing story
13:33 - Lesson: Altered blues loop
16:25 - 100th Episode show


Notes
A brief chat on that fear that all men have of having something planned in the future that cannot be moved....and a few words about Stipe Miocic, who is, in my humble opinion, a bad bad man.

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100th episode prints available at www.ziggysartstudio and I think theres only a few left sadly