By: Robert Pollard Appears on: Not In My Airforce “Psychic Pilot Clocks Out” features a lot of the open-string drone guitar technique, using the open fourth string D note ringing out through several sections of the song. If you haven’t seen it yet, do check out the porch performance from “The Who Went Home And […]
Category: tab
Elfin Flower With Knees
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Universe Room “Elfin Flower With Knees” uses an open string drone guitar technique, with a fretted note on the second string along with the open third string. The fretted note on the second string drops down to an open string for the song’s main riff, but there are a […]
I Will Be A Monk
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Universe Room For such a brief song, there are a lot of fun guitar lines to play in “I Will Be A Monk,” including Doug Gillard’s lead parts, for which he employs a wah pedal. You need to be logged in to view the rest of the content. Please […]
Dawn Believes
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Universe Room “Dawn Believes” was the Universe Room track assigned to Doug Gillard to record all instrumentation, so of course we can expect it to have some embellishments on Robert Pollard’s original composition. Using an array of layered guitars, Gillard altered some chord voicings and added some transitional fills, […]
The Great Man
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Universe Room “The Great Man” was the second single released from the Universe Room album and features an insistent, rhythmic guitar riff accentuated with Psycho inspired string stabs. For the main guitar riffs, Robert Pollard uses an open string drone technique, with a fretted note on one string along […]
Lurker On The Threshold
By: Children’s Crusade Appears on: A Duty-Dance With Death I’m including a non-Pollard project as a tab post today, but with good reason. Today is Doug Gillard’s birthday, so I chose a song he wrote and recorded with his high-school band Children’s Crusade: “Lurker On The Threshold” (the album is available now through Rockathon Records!). […]
Action Speaks Volumes
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: The Pipe Dreams Of Instant Prince Whippet The guitar work throughout “Action Speaks Volumes” consists of a single stum of a chord (there are many of Robert Pollard’s favorite chord shapes included in this song) followed by two E notes on the open sixth string. With this constant rhythmic […]
Fly Religion
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Universe Room “Fly Religion” is the first single to be released from the upcoming album Universe Room, and it sure does whet the appetite. There’s nothing groundbreaking here in terms of song composition or guitar work, but it’s just another great song by Robert Pollard and company with a […]
Wrinkled Ghost
By: Robert Pollard Appears on: Waved Out Simple in both instrumentation and composition, but nonetheless splendid, is “Wrinkled Ghost” from Robert Pollard’s Waved Out album. Pollard has two guitar parts in this song that are included in the transcription, as well as a keyboard part that comes in during the second chorus. You need to […]
Soul Train College Policeman
By: Robert Pollard with Doug Gillard Appears on: Speak Kindly Of Your Volunteer Fire Department The guitar work on “Soul Train College Policeman” highlights a classic Robert Pollard technique where he creates two-note chords consisting of a fretted note on one string in conjunction with the next highest string being played open. In this song, […]
