By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Earth Man Blues “Free Agents” is a classic example of a Guided By Voices song that grew on me the more I heard it. I used to think it was just okay, but I eventually became obsessed with it, especially after seeing the band perform it live in Lancaster […]
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The Disconnected Citizen
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Earth Man Blues It’s always fun when you don’t have to move your hands or even your fingers around too much during a song. In “The Disconnected Citizen,” Robert Pollard included several chords that keep two fingers anchored on the third fret of the second and first strings—I use […]
Trust Them Now
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Earth Man Blues To play “Trust Them Now,” you only need a few simple chords; the tricky aspect is remembering which ones go where during some of the quicker chord changes. You need to be logged in to view the rest of the content. Please Log In. Not a […]
Lights Out In Memphis (Egypt)
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Earth Man Blues “Lights Out In Memphis (Egypt)” is my favorite kind of Robert Pollard song to play on guitar: it has several different sections all thrown together, which keeps the playing interesting to me (I’m not a huge fan of strumming the same four chords over and over). […]
Sunshine Girl Hello
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Dirty Kid School
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Earth Man Blues There’s not a whole lot of fancy guitar work in “Dirty Kid School,” so the main aspect you should really try to nail down is the choppy, syncopated rhythm guitar strumming that occurs in the main verse section. You need to be logged in to view […]
How Can A Plumb Be Perfected?
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Earth Man Blues In “How Can A Plumb Be Perfected?” from Earth Man Blues, most of the guitar is based around an open-position G chord. For the verses, we’ll mostly play only the sixth and fifth strings for this chord and move it up one fret as well. During […]
The Batman Sees The Ball
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Earth Man Blues “The Batman Sees The Ball” is another in a long line of superb Robert Pollard compositions that contain a killer guitar riff in the key of A. This one reminds me a bit of the main riff in “Evolution Circus” since both are based around the […]
