By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Alien Lanes In today’s post, we’ll take a look at tablature for “Blimps Go 90,” one of my favorites from Alien Lanes. This is one of the many songs that really made me appreciate Robert Pollard’s lyrics, especially the entire second chorus. As far as the guitar work, it’s […]
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Barricade
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Sandbox Sadly, I can’t claim to have been a Guided By Voices fan when Sandbox was released in 1987 (I would have had very good taste for a seven-year-old), but those older albums were some of the first GBV music I heard. My introduction to their music came circa […]
Song And Dance
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Nowhere To Go But Up “Song And Dance” closes out Nowhere To Go But Up with a slow-burn groove based around one chord progression for most of the song, building up intensity that eventually leads into a faster tempo section. You need to be logged in to view the […]
Puncher’s Parade
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Nowhere To Go But Up I talk a lot on this site about Robert Pollard’s compositions that use non-standard chord voicings. Typically these are made up of common chord shapes being taken from their usual frets on the guitar neck and transposed to different strings or fret positions. But […]
The Race Is On, The King Is Dead
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Nowhere To Go But Up In my opinion, there was no better choice to open the Nowhere To Go But Up album than the song “The Race Is On, The King Is Dead.” From the opening guitar riff that repeats throughout the song to its majestic descending chord ending, […]
We’re Going The Wrong Way In
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Nowhere To Go But Up To play “We’re Going The Wrong Way In” on guitar, we’ll use a combination of arpeggios and chord strumming, with some of the chords being Robert Pollard’s typical floated D shapes. You need to be logged in to view the rest of the content. […]
Stabbing At Fractions
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Nowhere To Go But Up “Stabbing At Fractions” is a pretty straightforward rock song that uses mostly strummed power chords for the guitar parts, though Robert Pollard also incorporates one of his favorite guitar techniques that I call “dropping the bass.” This move consists of removing the fretting finger […]
Don’t Blow Your Dream Job
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Welshpool Frillies I often tend to think that “Don’t Blow Your Dream Job” is longer than it actually is; at just over three and a half minutes, it’s the third longest on Welshpool Frillies, beaten out by “Rust Belt Boogie” and (just barely) by album opener “Meet The Star.” […]
White Flag
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: The Bears For Lunch Even as short as it is, the majority of “White Flag” is instrumental, with vocals taking up only about thirty seconds’ worth of the song’s total running time of two minutes and fifteen seconds. Robert Pollard’s rolling guitar arpeggios and Greg Demos’ high-register bass guitar […]
Legendary Breakfast Code
By: Circus Devils Appears on: Capsized! Thanks yet again to Todd Tobias, I’m happy to present another official Circus Devils tab, and it’s for “Legendary Breakfast Code” from Capsized! There are a lot of crazy, chaotic moments on this album, but this song is one of the calmer tunes (which are probably only there to […]
