By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Class Clown Spots A UFO “Be Impeccable” features a single electric guitar and Robert Pollard’s vocals. There are no fancy riffs or lead guitar work here, just chords, and we can probably assume he’s the lone guitarist on this track. You need to be logged in to view the […]
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Math Rock
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Mirrored Aztec Sure, this song sounds best if you have a bassist, drummer, and children’s choir (maybe also a toy piano) to play it with you, but it’s still fun to learn on guitar! You need to be logged in to view the rest of the content. Please Log […]
Christian Animation Torch Carriers
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Universal Truths And Cycles “Christian Animation Torch Carriers” contains many different sections and also changes time signatures at one point; these characteristics make it fun to play on guitar in my opinion, but it can be a lot to remember while playing. In this post, we’ll break it down […]
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 […]
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 […]
Picture Me Big Time
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Do The Collapse For the rhythm guitar on “Picture Me Big Time,” you’ll play a lot of arpeggios during the verses and power chord strumming in the choruses. I’ve also included tablature for a lot of the lead guitar work by Doug Gillard because it adds so much to […]
Cream Of Lung
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Cool Planet “Cream Of Lung” kinda creeps me out in the best possible way. The lyrics conjure up some strange images, and Robert Pollard’s lower register vocal delivery, along with the wobbly tremolo guitar effect, just make the tune sound…uneasy, in my opinion. Fortunately, however, it’s very easy to […]
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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Stops
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Styles We Paid For In a Robert Pollard composition, sometimes it’s all about the chord shapes. For example, “Stops” uses several major seventh chords, but when you take a look at the voicings you can see that Pollard was most likely just using a familiar chord shape in a […]
