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Focus On The Flock

By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Tremblers And Goggles By Rank In a recently published interview with Robert Pollard, he referred to “Focus On The Flock” as “complicated and interesting.” I’d say that sums it up pretty well; once again, Pollard has lumped together a slew of different musical ideas into a song that keeps […]

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Roosevelt’s Marching Band

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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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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. […]

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