By: Guided By Voices Appears on: August By Cake “Warm Up To Religion” features a terrific arpeggio riff in the classic Robert Pollard style: a fretted note on one string that changes to carry the melody while the two strings higher than it are played as open notes. You need to be logged in to […]
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It’s Food
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: August By Cake On “It’s Food,” Robert Pollard uses some open string drone guitar riffs, using the open fourth string D note in conjunction with fretted notes on the third string. There is also some chord strumming involved in this song, with simple power chord shapes. You need to […]
5° On The Inside
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: August By Cake In “5° On The Inside,” Robert Pollard gives us a pretty straightforward rock song in terms of structure, using a catchy riff in the intro, some chord strumming during the verses, and some of his two-note chords in the choruses. You need to be logged in […]
Substitute 11
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: August By Cake “Substitute 11” is a pretty easy song to play on guitar. There’s no fancy guitar work, just a simple riff and some strummed chords, all of which use the same chord shape. You need to be logged in to view the rest of the content. Please […]
Goodbye Note
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: August By Cake “Goodbye Note” is one of the two songs contributed by Doug Gillard for the August By Cake album. It features a few terrific riffs and some slick lead work. You need to be logged in to view the rest of the content. Please Log In. Not […]
Circus Day Hold Out
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: August By Cake For “Circus Day Hold Out,” guitarist Doug Gillard uses a Drop-D tuning for his guitar part, with Bobby Bare, Jr. and Robert Pollard’s rhythm guitars staying in standard tuning. Therefore, this post is split into two guitar parts to show the different chord voicings used by […]
West Coast Company Man
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: August By Cake On this site, I talk a lot about the chord shapes that Robert Pollard uses most frequently in his songwriting. He seems to have “go-to” shapes and other techniques (such as arpeggios), but the dominant 7th chord shape used during the verses in “West Coast Company […]
Hiking Skin
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: August By Cake On “Hiking Skin,” Robert Pollard uses some simple chord shapes and the often-employed “floating chord shapes” guitar technique of moving an open D major chord shape to different frets on the neck. You need to be logged in to view the rest of the content. Please […]
What Begins On New Year’s Day
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: August By Cake “What Begins On New Year’s Day” is a simple, melancholy, mostly acoustic guitar song that Robert Pollard included on the Guided By Voices album August By Cake, having been previously released on an Amazon Prime music compilation titled Indie For The Holidays. We’ll use a few first-position […]
We Liken The Sun
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: August By Cake “We Liken The Sun” from August By Cake is a track that I didn’t give enough attention when the album first came out. I guess that’s somewhat acceptable, as there were plenty of new songs vying for attention all at once. I’ve really come to appreciate this […]
