A brief chat on bending, my brother Mike, and the sad truth of life that once we leave the studio, our poor tracks have no one to defend them. Homeskoolin merch available at www.guitarhouse.net Paypal tip jar is tombukovac@gmail.com
Too funny, I literally just hopped onto this video to comment cause I was thinking how on cloud 9 Browns fans must be. First playoff game in 18 years and you're handing the team that's been crushing your division forever their ass, big-time. Awesome for you guys!
Watching the news right now while making dinner (West Coast) our sports guy said the Browns were "destroying" the Steelers. Fingers are crossed for Uncle Larry and friends.........
Love this little sweet spot to be and hang out with uncle Larry. :) you’re so genuine and down to earth Tom. I totally respect you’re playing, knowledge and love of the guitar and great music. I have a feeling your channel is going to explode this year, we are listening bro, I mean really listening. Love your stories, they really hit home, I love the honest approach you have in your videos. You’re one of a kind man. Keep keeping it real, learning so much from you and I haven’t even picked up my guitar while watching your videos yet, I just love absorbing it all. Keep em coming! Enjoy your day of football and family! Cheers!
I have been binge watching from show # 1. This time on the big screen with my guitar cranked. Its like having someone to jam with who really knows how to play. Thanks Tom
Honestly I tune in mainly for the viewer comments section! The opening jams are always cool and often inspired (especially the ones without the looper, I find), but the lessons are wayyyy above me :-D
Been a sad week for me. My cousin, Chad, passed away last Sunday. He was a drummer. We were just talking the week before about getting into the studio together. Watching you play guitar in the beginning got me inspired to get back at it. Thx Uncle Larry
Hey Tom, back in the 80’s I met Tommy Tedesco and ever since, he has been what I thought a Session Man was like. Until now. He was a great technical player. He could read any kind of chart put in front of him and could deliver whatever type of music the producer needed - even beyond guitar. Need a banjo? He had one - it was tuned like a guitar. Mandolin? Lute? Bouzouki? Same thing, all tuned like a guitar. And he got paid extra for whatever additional instruments he played. But you, Little Tommy, are cut from a different cloth. If TT was a technician, you are an artist. Yes you have the chops, but it seems like you play from the heart. Musician first, right? And the way you talk about your studio brethren, it seems like many others deliver the same. Now is it a Nashville vs LA thing, or is it the evolution of the state of guitar, or is it purely personal style? Whatever it is, it’s a pleasure to hear. And many thanks for the Skoolin’.
Love Dan Huff’s work whether as a guitarist, singer, producer, writer - all of it. Great guy who will be a great guest. Starting to hear your licks in the tracks you laid down over your career. It’s so cool how much music you influenced through the years. Never would have known had you not decided to open class.
That lesson about the shoulder of the pick is the most valuable guitar lesson I’ve ever had. Ive practice hours on my alternate picking and it never quite got clean Until now. Thanks man
I completely connect with your tone and soul brother. Thank you for sharing your gift. I am the same age as you and just discovered you. God gave me a gift of guitar as well but alcohol consumed most of my life until recently. I however was very non functional and a black out. I’ll keep soaking up the love brother.❤
Hey Tom, Thank you for all you have done for the guitar playing community! You are the best and thank you for introducing guitar house of Tulsa to us who have never been to Oklahoma. I just got myself a 57 VOS les Paul junior from the boys and I cannot be happier! Keep up the videos and go browns!!!
As far as being replaced on a track, sometimes you play something so good it is axed. If you suddenly pop out with something brilliant that stands out, then you go back to a lackluster performance or song, it can kill a track or someone's ego. It is like a movie with okay writing and okay actors. Then suddenly some cameo by a huge talent comes in and just nails it. Then you get let down when you go back to the regular cast. You weren't judging as harshly until your expectations were raised. This is one of many ways it could happen but something to remember when you KNOW you nailed it. When everyone knows you nailed it. Then something more mundane replaces it. -ToneTalk brought me here. Love the channel. Subbed.
Hey Tom I needed something to change my attitude about the last few days of confusion & ignorance we’ve all had so thanks for the calmness I get from your content so hope you & your family have good times ahead thanks again
Thank you Tom for making these videos, you -unknowingly- provide me the assurance that whatever I play when I'm alone in my room can be as good/significant as what you hear on the radio/internet. Making music because it's the only thing that makes sense. Appreciate your work all the way from Egypt!
Uncle Larry - you inspire me to play every time I watch one of your videos. I’ve been playing for just over 2 years and have learned so much from you. You are a true gold mine of life experience and music and incredibly generous for sharing with us homeskoolers. This video moved me from a boy in the area of bending to an adolescent. Haha. Hoping to become a man of bending in the near future. Thanks again. Cheers from Salem, Oregon
Hey Tom, a parcel arrived for me yesterday, a cool Home Schooling t-shirt! A Christmas present from my lovely wife. She had been tracking it nervously since November. It went from Tulsa to a military compound in Frankfurt Germany, then back to New York, then down to Jamaica then back across to London finally up to Manchester yesterday. Take comfort Tommy, even if no one else is touring the world your (very comfy!) t-shirts are!
Helloooooooo Cleveland! Hey, Tom! From one of the Class in KC, can't wait for Sunday. Its going to be a great game. Man, I've been watching Homeskoolin' all year and can't thank you enough for what you're doing. You've been a bright light in a very dark year. Each jam out of your garage is medicine for the brain! I can't wait to hear the TTW record, too. Here's to a great year for you and your family. Looking forward to more great stuff. Cheers and thanks! Bill in KC
Hey Uncle Larry, I grew up in Meadville PA, a town deeply divided as the Browns and Steelers were about 2 hours away in either direction. I've always been a Steelers fan, but have to say that I'm happy your Browns are finally coming back. I hope the dismal years are behind you guys. Good luck tomorrow. It's good to see the rivalry back on equal footing. Enjoy your RRock and enjoy da football youz guyz. Have a great weekend.
Hi Tom, I've been watching your videos now for about 8 months and have never replied to any of them so I thought that it was long over due. Just wanted to let you know what a joy it is to listen to you play, take in your advise on so many aspects of playing, and hear you talk about your view points of everything under the sun. I love the fact they you do your videos out of the garage....perfect! On this video you mention speaking with Dean DeLeo. I've always thought that this guy is such a powerhouse guitar player and I don't see as many accolades bestowed upon him as I think he deserves. Anyway.....thank you for all of the fantastic videos that you have put together! Big fan in Pennsylvania, Jim
“You have to let go, you have to detach, and just be an iron man and play what you think is right. If they replace it, fuck them”. I laughed so hard at work, they asked if I was ok. Great words of advice. Another of the many quotes of yours I love are, “I don’t have a secret weapon, but it’s a weapon I use secretly”. Hope I didn’t mess up that last quote and can’t remember which episode it’s from. Please don’t ever stop making Homeskoolin’ Uncle Larry, it’s one of the bright spots I have in theses dark days as a Nurse.
I got pretty friendly with Dann during his Giant days.He is a great person and an amazing musician. I even got to play thru his rig at a rehearsal. What a thrill.
I'm so grateful for what you talked about in an earlier video on playing melodies. I'm terrible at learning licks but I'm so much better at creating my own ideas and I feel like I've been given permission to just play me, because that just feels like the right thing to do...Thanks Tom!
Hey Tom, the fact that you handwrite the comments in the VCB is commendable. That's true loyalty to your craft. Especially when you can just copy-paste-print.
Hey Tom, thanks for sharing your personal experiences. I've been playing guitar, bass, keyboard, and singing for 51 years. I was in a few bands, but realized everyone wanted a copycat sound, so I stopped doing bands. I love to play, but gotta be me. I appreciate what you do because it takes a certain kind of person to be a real session man. I've played and sang in front of 20,000 people for a summer jam 40 years ago and had a blast, but after the show I sold all the equipment to the band because I couldn't be me, they wanted a certain image. It's funny how sometimes you get what you want and realize it's not what you thought. I know exactly what you mean when you play a sweet lick and it gets replaced. You know it's a perfect fit, but they were looking for a different sound. Props to you man, I definitely take it personal. Lol
Cannot wait for Trip the Witch! Also, Tom, I had my local gear store restring and set up my Squier Classic 60’s Vibe Stratocaster to as low as the string could go. Playing like butta!
Thanks again for your continued inspiration! I had another "Unlce Lar" breakthrough moment when I was playing yesterday and it was wonderful. My only slight glimmer of hope for todays gridiron contest is the old adage "on any given Sunday..." so Go Bears!
Glad to see you back my brother. You brought up something that really happens to us all at some point. Getting replaced, it happens to the best of us. You can't let it get you down. You learn from it and push harder toward your goal. But a t-shirt with home skoolin in small print on the back of the shirt just below the collar and the replacement on the front across the chest in bold letters would be awesome.
Tom, Thank you for more sensei guitar teachings!, Bending seems so elementary and you do it all the time self-consciously, I don't even know that I'm doing some of the things I do. Thank you for taking us back and showing us the finer points! Hey something unrelated..how's the the Impala doing? Did they do the rear main seal, the oil pan and the valve cover gaskets? Old cars are so cool, but man do they need an overhaul after some decades. Take care , and keep on playin'!
Hey Tom, another great video. My coach keeps telling me , repetition works. He tells me Some of the best coaches in history use it relentlessly. Don’t worry about repeating yourself he tells me, that’s thinking of me, my clients want me to repeat it to them. Plus, there’s research shows that that we only retain less than 10% of what we listen to. It goes up to 20% if you take notes... keep the repetition coming. 😄For me, I actually appreciate it ( also, I only discovered your channel a month or 2 ago. Lol) Totally Awesome chords in the intro man. Love those obscure notes. Blew me away. I love it when the artist goes in a totally unpredictable direction and you’re like thinking I’m not sure about this and then boom, makes it sounds so good. Great stuff. Can’t imagine how that can sting when they use something else on a part you felt really good about. Ouch. I can kinda relate. That’s the way things go sometimes. Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out.
As impressed as I am with your musicality (and your willingness to share what you know), I'm equally impressed, and maybe more so, by how you are with your kids, how you handle your whole father business. Easy going, always grinning, always patient. And as you do with your playing, you make fatherhood look deceptively easy. You're a good dad.
Dag Buk, Craig, you guys tugging at the heart strings man. Hats off to you both! Buk, the humanity you display...especially in these trying times. Thank you so for doing what you do! “Whenever my gratitude exceeds my expectations it’s a good day”
Uncle Larry, Wanted to offer a thank you for spreading the word about the Nobels ODR-1. My wife bought one of these for me for Christmas this year, and all I can say is I'm a believer with a fever.. Its on my board and there it shall remain. peace.
FOOTBALL!! Go Browns, Go Titans!! Love those chords Larry...Suspended Slash Chords.... Keep playing like a man Uncle Larry. California Loves you Little Tommy B
Thanks Tom for the bending advice. I’m a pretty good string bender but the bass string pull down made a lot of sense to me, thanks. Thanks for the replacement insight, I wish I had heard that a while ago but that was great to hear from a player of your stature. NFL playoffs are on! Pax.
I worked in a studio in the 80’s starting as a tape op. Roger Chapman was in with Mike Vernon producing and Alvin Lee came in for the day to play on i think six tracks for the album. Id seen Woodstock and was in awe for the whole day. I think they used about 1 minute on the album. Brutal . Great show thanks from the UK
Hey, Tom, your stories about being replaced reminded me of a situation years ago (mid 1990's). I was a hockey coach, and one of my players was a freshman at Michigan and was out-performing a senior on the team who Michigan was promoting for the Hobey Baker Award (the Heisman for college hockey). TV announcers during games started to promote my former player as the star of the team. Suddenly, my former player went from the first line to the fourth line! He got replaced! In the end it was okay. He won two National Championships at Michigan, one as the Captain of the team.
Love your show. Been here since the beginning. I’m sure you remember going into a bar and getting a case of 64 poney bottles of rock! We did that all the time at Penn State at a place called the Rat Skellar. Oh and one more thing! Go Steelers!
Hey, Tom. Bent note vibrato is something I've struggled with. In the span of one day, your "smashed finger" technique tip is helping with that (and, of course, bending generally). Over time and with practice, I think it will help a great deal. Thanks for all you do here.
And another great video with a sick intro..can't say it enough how much you've improved my playing and overall understanding of music over the last several months. Happy New Year to you and your family Tom. Godbless!
hey Tom. Gool luck with the "football". (I'm from Belgium, I can't comprehend your use of that term). That intro was bangin' as hell ! Thank you for the whole series, it's been awesome so far ! No pressure ! Also, you're wrong about beers ;) (did I mention I'm from Belgium ?)
Thank you Tom! As always your intros are great! Kind of Beckish. Love your pick switching technique. I need to work on that and bending a little bit too, I’m off a little lately. Sorry to tell you man, I’m a Steelers fan! May the best team win!
Well the Browns kicked some ass tonight. Congratulations to you and the guy I saw walking down the street here in a Browns T shirt today! I’m sure that there are a lot of Browns fans that are having a great Sunday night.
