By: Guided By Voices Appears on: August By Cake For “Circus Day Hold Out,” guitarist Doug Gillard uses a Drop-D tuning for his guitar part, with Bobby Bare, Jr. and Robert Pollard’s rhythm guitars staying in standard tuning. Therefore, this post is split into two guitar parts to show the different chord voicings used by […]
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Picture Me Big Time
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Do The Collapse For the rhythm guitar on “Picture Me Big Time,” you’ll play a lot of arpeggios during the verses and power chord strumming in the choruses. I’ve also included tablature for a lot of the lead guitar work by Doug Gillard because it adds so much to […]
Cream Of Lung
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 […]
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 […]
