July 11th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Road Update “Ruben And The Retrofret Jets”

Chapters
00:00 - Bigsby "Larry" guitar


Notes
Uncle Larry prowls the streets of the Big Apple..lookin at some cool guitars…and then later we’re gonna come around at 12 with some Puerto Rican girls just dyin’ to meet you

Special thanks to Ruben Alvarado for showing me a good time at Retrofret guitars

July 10th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Road Update, “Sweet Tysons Virginia”

Chapters
00:00 - Plucking away in hotel Virginia
03:00 - Hello, friends! / Vince Gill update / New t-shirts coming
04:58 - '30s Gibson C1
06:08 - GTO
08:49 - Lesson: Cool chord - very pleasing C chord


Notes
Uncle Larry checks in from the road

just wait til you guys see this new Homeskoolin t shirt fast ball that is about to come across your plate…all you gotta do is swing your bat and it’s an instant home run friends

July 9th, 2025

Homeskoolin' Volume 473, Tom Bukovac, "Chopper Time"

Chapters
00:00 - Big reveal Fender Telecaster Bass
09:16 - Music City Bridge / Glaser Instruments / Baked Alaska
17:52 - Gretsch Space Control Bridge


Notes
Part 1- Uncle Larry shows the class one of the more hideous chop jobs that you may ever happen across in this lifetime

Part 2- Uncle Larry visits with Joe Glaser and Josh Rawlings at Baked Alaska/Music City Bridge headquarters


here is the link to the new Maximum Larry guitar instructional course friends
https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...


If you wanna check out Dann’s record go here
https://bakedalaskarecords.com/

July 6th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 472, Tom Bukovac, “The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow Body”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing P90s
02:53 - What's up, friends!
05:42 - Lesson / Quiz: Prog Rock lick
06:17 - Prog Rocker?
06:44 - Course, tablature, good stuff
07:37 - Joe Walsh and ham radio
08:47 - Soulful Strat Lake Placid Blue
09:38 - Nick Govrik record
10:53 - Reading music?  Not at all / Jo Dee Messina Christmas album (A Joyfull Noise)
14:09 - '60 Gibson ES-330 / Vs ES-335 nothing alike / Hollowbody vs Solidbody
15:50 - Ted Nugent and being able to do what he did


Notes
Uncle Larry walks ya through some late Sunday night VCB on a 60 es-330

If you wanna take the plunge on the new Uncle Larry guitar instructional course here is the link...
you will learn so much shit that even your wife will be like "damn, that sounds good honey"
https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...

July 5th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 471, Tom Bukovac, “The Rocket’s Red Glarry”

Chapters
00:00 - Nice mellow playing from Trip The Witch
03:40 - Good Morning / 4th of the July
07:00 - '65 Fender Stratocaster - Lake Placid Blue
07:41 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Nick Govrik
08:50 - David Letterman and the Yellow Strat / Sid McGinnis / Wynonna Judd
10:28 - Sid McGinnis story
11:25 - Star Licks videos / Guitar Heaven
12:47 - Brett Papa comment
16:06 - Thank you / Fresh outlook on life
20:00 - Trip The Witch number
22:09 - Lesson: Bb -> Gmin -> Eb -> Bb / Scale
23:24 - Blues sounds like shit over that / Why? / Relative Minor
26:20 - Lesson: Trip The Witch - Planet TD1 (Gmin -> F6 -> Ebmaj7)


Notes
Hope everyone had a great 4th…we sure did …lots of family and friends

‘Merica…fuck yeah….

Thank you guys for all the continued support and kindness…I truly appreciate it

Here is the link to the course I worked my fucking ASS off on
https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...

July 4th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 470, Tom Bukovac, “1776”

Chapters
00:00 - Singing that Country
00:45 - Hey friends all the way to Zimbabwe
02:35 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin)
03:17 - Ever so lightly holding the pick
05:54 - Blues Junior amps?
06:45 - Tweed 410 / Blues DeVille
07:30 - Boss GE-7 Equalizer / EQ after the drives
08:30 - Thanks
10:12 - All that matters - Right-hand pocket
12:06 - Joe Walsh playing and amps choice
14:12 - Side Fills
15:19 - Course
17:19 - Inner peace / Clarity of life
19:15 - '64 SJ-200
19:30 - Tuned-down Rickenbacker
22:00 - Don't blow your fuckin' fingers off


Notes
Uncle Larry gets heavy into some current day VCB

I was gonna call this episode “carnival of pain” but I changed it to “1776”…it’s a little more snappy and upbeat

Here’s the link to my new course that just came out a couple days ago
https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...

Pictured in the thumbnail photo …the amazing band from the last two weeks of recording over at Vince Gill’s studio

From left to right
Matt “Hazmatt” Rausch (engineer)
Jedd Hughes (guitar)
Fred Eltringham (drums)
Jimmie Lee Sloas (bass)
Yours Truly
John Jarvis (keys)
Jim “Moose” Brown (keys)
Boss Man
Paul Franklin (pedal steel)
Justin Niebank (engineer)

July 3rd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 469, Tom Bukovac, “Class A”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing that Tele
09:49 - Hey guys! / Update
10:10 - '63 JMI Vox AC30
12:54 - Vox - "Normal Channel"
13:26 - Vox - "Vibe Channel"
14:38 - All the amps you ever need
16:03 - Course thanks / Vince Gill thanks


Notes
Uncle Larry expounds on his lifelong appreciation for one of the finest valve amplifiers ever conceived by the human mind....

also, if you want to check out the new Maximum Larry instructional guitar course you can see it here....
8 hours of Uncle Larry mayhem from several camera angles, all professionally tabbed out.
this shit will keep you busy the rest of your life

https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...

July 3rd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 468, Tom Bukovac, “Hillbilly With A Hellcat”

Chapters
00:00 - Honky Tonk playing
06:13 - Thank you for course
08:17 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / The trashy side of comments and retort
11:28 - Real Country players / Paul Franklin
13:33 - The tuning of the Pedal Steel / Buddy Emmens, etc.
15:33 - Lesson: Steel kick
17:45 - Brett Papa course


Notes
ENDLESS thank you’s to everyone out there who took the plunge and bought the course

I am SO HAPPY that you guys dig it

Here’s the link
https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...

July 2nd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Course Sign Up Details”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing / Course update


Notes
Uncle Larry explains a few details about the email sign up process for the Maximum Larry extreme guitar instructional course that drops in a couple hours

Here is the link where you can buy the course…8 hours of Uncle Larry mayhem
https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...

July 1st, 2025

Homeskoolin’ IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!

Chapters
00:00 - Course update


Notes
Happy birthday to my dear beloved departed mother Norma Irene Castle Bukovac…

…and….the instructional course I have been working my ASS OFF on for the past 2 years is finally coming out tomorrow morning !!!!

Here is the link friends
https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...

I sincerely hope you love it