By: Boston Spaceships Appears on: Our Cubehouse Still Rocks On Boston Spaceships track “John The Dwarf Wants To Become An Angel,” Robert Pollard is once again using a guitar arpeggio—with a fretted note on the sixth string along with the open fifth, fourth, and third strings—to great effect. He combines this with a few chords, including […]
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Low Flying Perfection
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: How Do You Spell Heaven “Low Flying Perfection,” for me, is a high point of How Do You Spell Heaven. It’s a perfect example of Robert Pollard’s more “mature” songwriting at play; but also, the dynamics between the louder and quieter parts of the song and the superb vocal […]
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 […]
Hotel X (Big Soap)
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Please Be Honest “Hotel X (Big Soap)” is another great Guided By Voices song wherein Robert Pollard eschewed standard song structure in favor of a collage style. There is a bit of the intro that makes an appearance again later in the song, but for the most part, there […]
Foreign Deputies
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Warp And Woof “Foreign Deputies” features a guitar shape that Robert Pollard uses frequently, played as an arpeggio with a B note ringing throughout on the open second string. It’s very similar to the arpeggio figures played in “We Liken The Sun.” In “Foreign Deputies,” however, you can just assign […]
Christmas Girl
By: Boston Spaceships Appears on: Let It Beard When I create these guitar tablature posts, the tablature and chord diagrams are all made from shapes and tables in Google Slides, so I start by copying a song from a previous post that used similar tablature or chord diagrams and modify as needed. As it turns […]
Your Cricket Is Rather Unique
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Sweating The Plague It’s hardly unusual for a member of Guided By Voices other than Robert Pollard to handle vocal duties for a song or two. Tobin Sprout performed vocals for the many songs he contributed to the band during his time, and Nick Mitchell sang his own tunes on […]
Run Son Run
By: Robert Pollard Appears on: Fiction Man “Run Son Run,” the opening track on Robert Pollard’s Fiction Man, has that wonderful gritty feeling that permeates so much of the production of this album. I think that’s what makes it a favorite of mine; there’s such a dirty sound to it that complements these songs so […]
A Trophy Mule In Particular
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Earthquake Glue Part of the mission of the GBV Guitar website is to fill in the gaps. For Robert Pollard’s work 2004 and prior, there are already some guitar tabs floating around on the internet, and a lot of them are pretty accurate, or at least close enough to […]
Asphyxiated Circle
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Half Smiles of the Decomposed According to the invaluable resource of all things Robert Pollard, GBVDB – Guided By Voices Database, “Asphyxiated Circle” from 2004’s Half Smiles Of The Decomposed was only ever played lived by the band a total of 13 times. This, in my opinion, is not […]
