By: Guided By Voices
Appears on: Sweating The Plague
“Unfun Glitz” features a guitar technique frequently used by Robert Pollard that involves taking an entire chord shape and shifting it either up or down a string. In this case, he’s taking a simple “power chord” shape (consisting of the root note, the fifth note, and an octave above the root) and playing it on the fourth, third, and second guitar strings—typically these shapes are played with notes on either the sixth, fifth, and fourth strings or on the fifth, fourth, and third strings. The result is a Gmaj7 chord with the 3rd omitted.
