By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Tremblers And Goggles By Rank Robert Pollard sometimes combines a catchy riff with some chord strumming to comprise a verse. “Roosevelt’s Marching Band” is a prime example, but others that immediately come to mind include “I Love Kangaroos” and “Make Use.” The riffs are typically pretty simple and often […]
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Who Wants To Go Hunting?
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Tremblers And Goggles By Rank “Who Wants To Go Hunting?” is the closing track that Tremblers And Goggles By Rank deserves. For an album full of longer, more progressive songs, Robert Pollard saved the longest song for last, and it wraps up the album perfectly, fading out with an […]
Alex Bell
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Tremblers And Goggles By Rank If you’ve read enough of the posts on this site, you may have been clued in to the fact that my favorite Robert Pollard songs to play on guitar are often those with multiple different (seemingly unrelated, even) sections. “Alex Bell” might just be […]
Red Bodies
By: Boston Spaceships Appears on: Let It Beard “Red Bodies” features a lot of different sections that involve power chord strumming, some arpeggio work, and even a guitar riff that was originally sung by Robert Pollard on his boom box demo for this song and then played on guitar by Chris Slusarenko when recorded for […]
Physician
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Surrender Your Poppy Field I don’t know whether “Physician” is my favorite song on Surrender Your Poppy Field or just my favorite to play on guitar, but maybe it’s both. There are some quirky changes throughout and the whole middle section provides a nice break from the tempo of […]
Paper Cutz
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: How Do You Spell Heaven “Paper Cutz” is full of repeating riffs, but they never seem to repeat quite in the same way every time throughout the song. Therefore, this transcription contains a few longer sections of tablature where you’ll see recurrences of earlier guitar riffs and phrases. You […]
Substitute 11
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: August By Cake “Substitute 11” is a pretty easy song to play on guitar. There’s no fancy guitar work, just a simple riff and some strummed chords, all of which use the same chord shape. You need to be logged in to view the rest of the content. Please […]
Break Even
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: The Grand Hour “Break Even” features some raucous vocal work by Robert Pollard that you just don’t hear any more these days. In terms of songwriting, however, this one is pretty similar to a lot of the loose song structure tunes Pollard still gifts to us on every album. […]
Liquid Kid
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Styles We Paid For “Liquid Kid” is one of those great Robert Pollard songs that defies conventional song structure and just keeps moving from one section to another, never looking back. There are some fun dissonant chords and open-string drone riffs that make this one a lot of fun […]
Secret Star
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Earthquake Glue “Secret Star” was included in Guided By Voices’ live shows from April 2003 (several months before Earthquake Glue was released) until the band’s final performance on 12/31 of 2004. I originally tabbed out the guitar parts for the Chords page of the old gbv.com website, but frankly […]
