September 23rd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 505, Tom Bukovac, “Sea Sick PTA Blues”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing with some vintage equipment


Notes
A look at one of my top 5 favorite pedals ever designed

The Maestro MPF-1 Parametric Filter

Norlin’s finest moment

Sorry about the slow moving camera waves... i can't play without tapping my foot and making a ruckus.

if you don't have your Dramamine you might wanna skip this one friends

September 22nd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Part Two, “The Willowick Lineman”

Chapters
00:00 - StudioSweet playing that goes into a loop
04:30 - Lesson: Bmaj with Blues E pentatonic Blues


Notes
Uncle Larry takes a quick break from the big game at halftime to discuss a few of the harmonic ideas that have been racing through his head all day …
You guys would not believe what goes in there…

like for example, when my Cleveland brain puts C major, F major and G major in a blender, it all roughly adds up to a E pentatonic blues smoothie

It almost works over the F chord in this silly loop…almost

You see it?m friends?

On a more important note, we are lucky to be able to witness a football game played at this level friends ..two incredible teams dukin’ it out on prime time television in front of millions of hard working God fearing Americans.

Fall is indeed here my dear Homeskoolers

For the record I got Detroit plus 5 tonite

PS: do you think that poor kid Gus could read this chart?

September 22nd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Chords And Clouds”

Chapters
00:00 - Strumming the Hell out of it
02:47 - Hello enthusiasts / NFL picks / Playing
06:22 - Fun day Jimmy Webb and update
08:19 - Acoustic that nobody bought


Notes
Monday night acoustic jams with Uncool Larry

Chords and clouds…inversions and dreams…wishes and triads…modes and memories…color and time

Blocking and tackling ….hurry up offense…
Flags and fumbles…time outs and slant routes…punts and penalties…false starts and facemasks…chop blocks and turf toe…

Cyber connection…lessons and sessions…
Homework and lizards…snow plows and blizzards

Friends and forgiveness…top boost and basketweave…Facebook and funerals…converse and hoodies…hummus and yuengling…Christians and mingling
dear creeks and walruses…hellcats and tigers

September 22nd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 504, Tom Bukovac, “Fusion In The Dark”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing to a loop
07:01 - Hello, friends! / Cheifs v Giants / Update
08:19 - Lesson: Poly chords (G F C G)
12:41 - Playing music with your kids
14:42 - Offended by a t-shirt / Politics


Notes
Uncle Larry slings some blue notes at ya’ after a long day of football and being a dad

It was way too late to turn back after i realized immediately that slide wasn’t gonna work on this, but you gotta give me points for trying

September 20th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “The Unicorn”

Chapters
00:00 - Setting up Camco drums
02:55 - Playing the drums


Notes
As you may know, your Uncle Larry has always been a major vintage drum enthusiast…I would even venture to say that my knowledge regarding the whole culture of old drums is WAY more than it should be for a guy who can barely play

I’ve been surrounded by great drummers my whole career and they have always been kind enough to answer my endless questions and feed my undying curiosity about old drums and cymbals.

I have owned MANY old kits over the years…several old Ludwig kits...two different 70's Vistalite kits...a couple different 60's blue and black oyster kits...even a really rare ‘69 psychedelic red set that i gave to Joe Vitale years ago to replace the one he regretfully let go of back in the 70's.

i had a beautiful red sparkle 50's round badge Gretsch kit…a 70’s Rogers butcher block kit…an old early 80's Tama kit like Stewart played…you name it friends

But this….this is BY FAR the coolest rarest drum kit I have ever owned.

Circa LA era 1971 Camco 4 piece in natural finish with all the original hardware and matching snare...22-16-13 with matching 5x14 snare

I have only used it in the past with more modern deluxe hardware and pedals...with separate tom holder stands etc etc....but i thought it would be fun to set it up with all the original old school hardware...with the original the bad ass single braced flat cymbal stands and the original Camco bass drum pedal and hi hat stand....as God Intended.

I even have the original weird bass drum ride cymbal mount arm, but we chose not to use it....it's TOO retro.

This kit has no extra holes…no excuses…any drum collector will tell you how difficult it is to find an old Camco kit that hasn't been all monkeyed up...you just never see this stuff.

For example, if you were ever trying to locate one of the original Camco tom mounts like you see here... you would be "shit out of luck" as they say.

Hope you closet drummers out there enjoy the fine playing of young Matty Alger.

Matty is the owner and engineer at The Cabin studio in east Nashville where we recorded most of the “in stereo” album I made with Guthrie Trapp

A fine fella and fantastic musician....i thank him sincerely for helping me set up all this cool old gear for the Bukovac family to enjoy for years to come

September 19th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “One Take Wonder”

Chapters
00:00 - Country picking
03:22 - Marshall company gift / European shirts


Notes
Hello friends, I just wanted to see what would happen if I really quickly did one take only to build a simple guitar and bass loop….and then quickly did one take only soloing on top of it

I’m all about the freshness of the spontaneous musical moment...and I'm also all about a 1960 slab board Tele Custom....what could possibly go wrong?

anyway, this is the result of my little one take experiment…hope you enjoy my friends

Also a little love here for our long suffering European friends who have been completely screwed in the Homeskoolin merch game since day one

this whole campaign is mainly designed a special treat for our friends across the pond..
although i do promise I will try to get some of these in the states too if you hound me enough.

Of course, in the true tradition of Homeskoolin' Inc., these shirts will be of the utmost quality and EXTREMELY soft and comfortable.

I will forward the ordering details as soon as they are officially available

Also, big thanks to Hugh Gilmartin and all our friends in the custom shop at Marshall Amplification for hooking me up with this sweet ass back panel.

September 19th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 503, Tom Bukovac, “Expectations”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing slow
07:58 - Hey guys / Douchebag comment / NFL / Playing
09:43 - Weed smoking coach
10:49 - Lesson: Blazing fast cross picking sweep
12:28 - '58 Fender Telecaster
14:08 - Life lessons
18:38 - Lesson: F# -> Bmaj climb
20:36 - Brett James passed away in plane crash


Notes
In this episode he plunks on some old Fullerton magic and addresses one of the great problem that plagues all of us ….expectations

September 18th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 502, Tom Bukovac, “American Distortion”

Chapters
00:00 - Rockin' and a Rollin'
01:46 - What's up, friends / Calling in sick
02:40 - Wonderful overdrive? Nope, Boss GE-10 / Reverb buy
07:04 - Gildan / David Ferguson and new kid
08:26 - Playing
09:45 - NFL / Gambling
12:10 - Lesson: Whole chord vibrato
12:42 - Old compositions covered on YouTube / New material
15:30 - Ziggy Art Studio poster
18:22 - Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick


Notes
Uncle Larry fights off a late summer sinus cold to bring you some quality guitar related content and savvy reporting from deep in the streets of the modern day guitar culture.

The episode I couldn’t think of the name was “Volume 87, The Big Apple”

check out the new 500th episode print at
https://www.ziggysartstudio.com

and here is the link to Uncle Larry's new instructional guitar course...over eight hours of detailed professionally shot multi camera lessons with tabs....
https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...

And here is a link to the new “Maximum Larry” t shirts and all other Homeskoolin swag
https://dvg-inc.shoplightspeed.com/to...

if you are being thoroughly entertained and have learned a ton of shit from this channel, and you feel led to make a little donation....please feel free

my PayPal address is:
tombukovac @gmail.com

my venmo address is:
@Tom-Bukovac-1

September 14th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 501, Tom Bukovac, “Scottish Guitar Dreams”

Chapters
00:00 - Hello, hello, hello... / NFL / Guitar Party extravaganza
03:26 - Playing / Homeskooler meet / Rumbleseat Strat fix
05:31 - Guitar Party new material next time / Scotland Guitar Dreams
07:36 - Lesson: Chord [8 10 10 9 10 7] (Cmaj7 13) / Playing


Notes
Uncle Larry reflects on a super fun gig that happened last night , and also talks about how excited he is to be a part of next years “Guitar Dreams” experience in Scotland

The exact dates aren’t decided yet but it’s gonna be somewhere around June or August of 2026.

September 13th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 500, Tom Bukovac, “Slumber Party”

Chapters
00:00 - Old world playing
03:55 - What's up, friends / 500th episode / Younger brother included
06:23 - Beautiful playing again
07:35 - Lesson: The Claw
09:09 - Gretsch 6120 - Tuning C# / Vince Gill gift / Jedd Hughes Gibson ES-350 Danny Gatton
10:42 - Gifting instruments
11:33 - Lesson: Tom Bukovac, Guthrie Trapp - Desert Man
12:48 - Gretsch Filter'Trons and zero fret
15:11 - Gretsch HiLo'Tron
16:50 - Gretsch guitar problems (binding rot, etc.)
18:30 - one more satellite / Trip The Witch
23:55 - Lesson: Harmonic feedback


Notes
Well friends…you were probably expecting pyro and flash bombs…but it’s just little old me with an old 6120 and some reverb.

Thanks to all that have stuck with me through this wild ride

Check out this cool record by a cool dude i know
https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id...

and here is the link to Uncle Larry's new instructional guitar course...over eight hours of detailed professionally shot multi camera lessons with tabs....
if you check the comments and look at what people have commented on Gearpage (if you can stomach it) t has been getting rave reviews from even the most skeptical tight ass consumers who desperately WANTED to hate it.
https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...

And here is a link to the new “Maximum Larry” t shirts and all other Homeskoolin swag
https://dvg-inc.shoplightspeed.com/to...

if you are being thoroughly entertained by the content of this channel, and you feel led to make a donation to the guy behind the guy, please feel free

the guy behind the guy's PayPal address is:
tombukovac @gmail.com

the guy behind the guy's venmo address is:
@Tom-Bukovac-1