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 […]
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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 […]
Send In The Suicide Squad
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Zeppelin Over China The real stars of “Send In The Suicide Squad,” in my opinion, are Robert Pollard’s vocal melody and performance (gotta love when he hits those high notes!), but there are also some great lead guitar fills and interesting chord progressions, so let’s take a look. You […]
Time Without Looking
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Styles We Paid For Whenever I hear a solid guitar riff in a Guided By Voices song, I always have to wonder if Doug Gillard conjured it up or if Robert Pollard included it in his demo by way of singing. In the case of “Time Without Looking,” it’s […]
(I’ll Name You) The Flame That Cries
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Do The Earth
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: I Am A Scientist [EP] “Do The Earth” is one of Guided By Voices’ best non-album tracks, in my opinion. If nothing else, the song includes some of my favorite lyrics of Robert Pollard’s. The line, “you offer salvation and I salivate” was even so good that he had […]
Vote For Me Dummy
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Motivational Jumpsuit Like a lot of the songs from the “classic line-up” reunion albums of 2012-2014, “Vote For Me Dummy” doesn’t feature any guitar work that’s too difficult. The main riff is pretty fantastic and fairly easy to play, and then there are just a few simple chords thrown […]
I’ll Replace You With Machines
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Earthquake Glue Back when Earthquake Glue was released, I was a frequent contributor to the Guitar Chords page of the old GBV website, where guitarists could tab out a song and submit it to the site via email. I was also catching a lot of live GBV shows during […]
Interest Position
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Hold On Hope “Interest Position” has long been one of my favorite Guided By Voices songs, and I think the main reason is the three-part vocal harmonies. I had always assumed it was the work of Robert Pollard alone, overdubbing extra vocals on top of his melody track. It […]
Alex And The Omegas
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Motivational Jumpsuit Aside from a brief arpeggio section, playing “Alex And The Omegas” on guitar is just a matter of strumming some simple power chords. You need to be logged in to view the rest of the content. Please Log In. Not a Member? Join Us
