By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Cool Planet “Cream Of Lung” kinda creeps me out in the best possible way. The lyrics conjure up some strange images, and Robert Pollard’s lower register vocal delivery, along with the wobbly tremolo guitar effect, just make the tune sound…uneasy, in my opinion. Fortunately, however, it’s very easy to […]
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Make A Record For Lo-Life
By: Boston Spaceships Appears on: Let It Beard “Make A Record For Lo-Life” provides an excellent example of a frequent Robert Pollard technique: changing chords just ahead of the beat. It happens throughout this song, which you’ll see in the tablature when a chord changes right at the end of a measure. You need to […]
Fly Away (Terry Sez)
By: Boston Spaceships Appears on: Our Cubehouse Still Rocks “Fly Away (Terry Sez)” is straightforward rock done right. Robert Pollard includes a catchy melody and power chords to craft a perfect pop song that should have been a hit. Although most of the guitar is transcribed as tablature here, there are a few basic chords […]
Lights Out In Memphis (Egypt)
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Earth Man Blues “Lights Out In Memphis (Egypt)” is my favorite kind of Robert Pollard song to play on guitar: it has several different sections all thrown together, which keeps the playing interesting to me (I’m not a huge fan of strumming the same four chords over and over). […]
Sunshine Girl Hello
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Stops
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Styles We Paid For In a Robert Pollard composition, sometimes it’s all about the chord shapes. For example, “Stops” uses several major seventh chords, but when you take a look at the voicings you can see that Pollard was most likely just using a familiar chord shape in a […]
Dirty Kid School
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Earth Man Blues There’s not a whole lot of fancy guitar work in “Dirty Kid School,” so the main aspect you should really try to nail down is the choppy, syncopated rhythm guitar strumming that occurs in the main verse section. You need to be logged in to view […]
How Can A Plumb Be Perfected?
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Earth Man Blues In “How Can A Plumb Be Perfected?” from Earth Man Blues, most of the guitar is based around an open-position G chord. For the verses, we’ll mostly play only the sixth and fifth strings for this chord and move it up one fret as well. During […]
The Batman Sees The Ball
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Earth Man Blues “The Batman Sees The Ball” is another in a long line of superb Robert Pollard compositions that contain a killer guitar riff in the key of A. This one reminds me a bit of the main riff in “Evolution Circus” since both are based around the […]
Send In The Suicide Squad
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Zeppelin Over China The real stars of “Send In The Suicide Squad,” in my opinion, are Robert Pollard’s vocal melody and performance (gotta love when he hits those high notes!), but there are also some great lead guitar fills and interesting chord progressions, so let’s take a look. You […]
