Homeskoolin’ Volume 93, Tom Bukovac, “The Secret?”

A brief chat cobbled together from a hazy thought that crossed my mind while i was still in bed this morning.

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[billytheburkemusic]

I saw the green glass bottleneck and the heavy coat in the thumbnail and knew that things were serious. Without describing the CAGED system in a comment I'd say your system is congruent with an earlier Homeskoolin description you made about seeing the neck as overlapping keyboards of sorts. Your system is very triad focused instead of based on the octave shapes of the C A G E and D chords. Instead of prioritizing the neck into ranges of frets you are prioritizing triad shapes on string groups. It's all music and your system can fit into a CAGED perspective but might be more harmonic rather than coordinates driven. Your system kind of slices the bread lengthwise. Of course in a world of White Mountain bread there is no lengthwise. Put a little Kerry Gold on it and it should be awesome.

[glennwhitlock]

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that all beginners should learn triads/inversions before the full bar chords. Such a logical and useful exercise.

[Guitargate]

Connecting basic Triads & Inversions w/ simple 2-3 note melodies = Everything. Such a fundamental lesson brother. Great to see you preach this!

[TheGuitologist]

Every time I stumble onto one of your vids, within two minutes I’m itching to play.

[jonathans]

The greatest guitar content on YouTube or anywhere else

[jacobwhalley]

Worth saying here Tom, you have probably just unlocked allot of doors for people here man! Thanks again dude!

[cder]

Root, 3rd, 5th...root, 3rd, 5th...all over the fretboard. Got some skoolin' to do. I love these videos. No other vibe like this. Thanks Tom.

[Tonyscalo]

With the "your Beatle chord" and "your Hendrix chord" insights—you may not realize it when you point out seemingly innocuous things like this, but these are the morsels that keep me coming back more than anything. It may seem like pointing out the obvious to somebody with a keenly developed ear such as yourself, but it somewhat de-obfuscates my neural pathways when understanding musical concepts when you word them. Thank you for coming into my life at such a malleable time in my musical career. You're the best, Tom.

[hearpalhere]

I'm sitting here watching this in the middle of the night and when your wife threw the boxes, I just about had a heart attack!

[Engineeringnome]

This is the best lesson Will bring a lot of us to the next level.

[timothyjohnson]

Hey Tom, it took me about 2-1/2 months to finally get current with your vids. Seen every one, I think. I'm a 64 year old non-pro playing for 50 years. Love everything you've been so kind to show us, I'm just a little pissed it couldn't have been 40 years ago! God bless you for what you're doing... Home Skoolin' is ALWAYS the high point of my day! You are a gift.

[gameoftones]

I am 46 years old, I have been playing since I was 15, for the first time these inversions were explained in a way I could get my head around it. Thanks Uncle Larry!!

[PIPA]

I COULD GET USED TO A DAILY DOSE OF THIS...

[onnevankenobe]

My mind opened like a coconut. There was only water inside but now I can fill it with all the inversions of the open chords, or as You call them, cowboy chords. Thank you Uncle Larry, one of the best lessons so far, a gem of information condensed into a small and nice no-bullshit video!

[ssalvaterra]

oh, now is daily. Thank god for the snow eheh

[brownmonkeybananayellow]

For later



1:54 cowboy chords
3:21 inversions on D, G, B strings
3:43 inversions on A, D, G strings
3:56 inversions on E, A, D strings
4:34 repeat in key of D
5:54 thinking in three cowboy chords
6:40 key of F
7:01 minor chords
7:07 major 7
7:19 middle strings
7:30 Beatle chord (barred C)
7:36 Hendrix voicing

[joemanez]

Millions of guitar players: the CAGED system makes playing so much easier!

Tom Buk: Hold my Rolling Rock... You only need THREE shapes!

Touché, man, touché

[paulnick]

I always love the look over the shoulder to see if anyone's coming, this show is classic !!

[gibson]

52 yrs old and i needed this.thank you for making it so easy.

[stevekirby]

When I realized that D and C cowboy chords and G and A were the same things, it opened up spaces in between. The next trick is getting the elements under control so I can modify them. Minor, Dom, Maj7, etc. Thank you for confirming this to be a useful path. Sometimes we make things too complicated.