By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Bee Thousand Yep, this one is a classic Guided By Voices tune. I only recently realized, however, that it was written in a classic Robert Pollard style as well. Instead of playing this song with traditional, conventional chords, Pollard uses his patented open string drone chords for the rhythm […]
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Tom Tom Small And Wonderful
By: ESP Ohio Appears on: Starting Point Of The Royal Cyclopean A guitar technique Robert Pollard often uses in his compositions is one that I refer to on this site as Open String Drone. It’s a combination of a fretted note (or notes) on one or more strings and an adjacent string played open (without […]
Miss Hospital ’93
By: ESP Ohio Appears on: Starting Point Of The Royal Cyclopean For “Miss Hospital ’93,” Robert Pollard uses a combination of strummed chords, an arpeggio riff, and some open string drone rhythm fills to craft yet another perfect pop song. In this post, we’ll take a look at the guitar tablature for this tune. You […]
Time Remains In Central Position
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Warp And Woof “Time Remains In Central Position” is a great slow rocker from the Warp And Woof album, with Robert Pollard once again floating the open A major chord shape to various frets to create unique chord voicings. The fifth chord shape is also used, with the fretted notes […]
My Kind Of Soldier
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Earthquake Glue “My Kind Of Soldier” features two guitars playing different melodies using an open string drone technique; the G note on the open third string will ring throughout much of the song for both guitars. There are times when one guitar strums chords, so I’ll include those in […]
Cool Jewels And Aprons
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Warp And Woof Playing “Cool Jewels And Aprons” on one guitar sounds fine, but I’ve included tablature for some of the lead guitar parts as well, or at least my best approximation of what the lead guitar is playing. I’d also like to note that the lyrics in this post […]
My Future In Barcelona
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Zeppelin Over China Robert Pollard stated in a recent interview that one of his favorite tracks from Zeppelin Over China is “My Future In Barcelona,” which is an opinion that’s easy to share. There’s a solid structure to the song, an extremely catchy chorus, and a majestic, triumphant ending. […]
Go For The Exit
By: Boston Spaceships Appears on: Brown Submarine “Go For The Exit” is another great example of Boston Spaceships reworking a Robert Pollard tune from the Suitcase box set. There are no real guitar riffs to play in this song, it’s just a barrage of chords, so you’ll need to try to remember which ones go […]
Wings Of Thorn
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Universal Truths And Cycles Most of “Wings Of Thorn” is based around the same chord shape. You’ll get your fingers into position for an E major open chord shape and then move that around to different frets on the guitar neck for the majority of the song. The chord changes […]
Blue Jay House
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Warp And Woof A few chords and a few riffs are all it takes to play “Blue Jay House” from Warp And Woof, although you could really do it justice by throwing in an organ, too. For one of the figures in this post, I’ve split the tablature into two […]
