By: Guided By Voices
Appears on: The Official Ironmen Rally Song
One of Robert Pollard’s most often used songwriting guitar techniques involves fretting a note on one string and allowing an open string either above or below it to ring out with it. For example, in “Why Did You Land?” he uses this technique with fretted notes on the sixth string along with the open fifth string. It creates a kind of two-note chord that he’s used in lots of different songs so far (check out the tab posts for “Office Of Hearts,” “Bunco Men,” and “You Own The Night” for some examples).
