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Pockets

By: Guided By Voices Appears on: La La Land La La Land album closer “Pockets” features a number of typical Robert Pollard guitar techniques in addition to a lengthy outro section. There is a lot of fantastic lead guitar work here by Doug Gillard that I included in the tablature. You need to be logged […]

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Queen Of Spaces

By: Guided By Voices Appears on: La La Land The latest Robert Pollard “Queen Of” song is here, and it’s a beauty! This transcription is for the acoustic guitar as heard on the album recording, but let’s discount the majesty of the piano and strings that accompany it. Since there are many subtle variations in […]

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Cousin Jackie

By: Guided By Voices Appears on: La La Land “Cousin Jackie” is one of Robert Pollard’s great “collage style” musical compositions, made up of different sections with various tempos that don’t sound like they should be able to form a cohesive whole. And yet, time and time again, this formula continues to work for him. […]

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Run Wild

By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Isolation Drills “Run Wild” features several key Robert Pollard guitar techniques. The verses use an arpeggio guitar phrase as the main riff, along with an open string drone note figure. In the choruses, Pollard uses floating chord shapes, which involve moving an open position chord shape to a different […]

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Science Magazine

By: Robert Pollard Appears on: Mouseman Cloud Todd Tobias did an excellent job of making Robert Pollard’s song “Science Magazine” sound like a lo-fi GBV track from the classic era by recording on 8-track and using a drum sample run through a distortion pedal for the percussion. You could probably slide this track in between […]

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