By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia Steve Wilbur played a pretty significant role in the early recording days of Guided By Voices, as several of their albums from that period were recorded in the studio he had assembled in his two-car garage. In addition to recording the band, however, he also took […]
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A Visit To The Creep Doctor
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Sandbox “A Visit To The Creep Doctor” is only about a minute and a half long, but the main guitar riff is so damn fun to play that you might just get carried away and extend that length by several minutes. You need to be logged in to view […]
Radio Show (Trust The Wizard)
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia As we saw in the tablature post for “Barricade,” Robert Pollard was already using his “floating chord shapes” guitar technique as far back as the Sandbox album, and he used it again for “Radio Show (Trust The Wizard)” from Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia. In both songs, it […]
Blimps Go 90
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Alien Lanes In today’s post, we’ll take a look at tablature for “Blimps Go 90,” one of my favorites from Alien Lanes. This is one of the many songs that really made me appreciate Robert Pollard’s lyrics, especially the entire second chorus. As far as the guitar work, it’s […]
Barricade
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Sandbox Sadly, I can’t claim to have been a Guided By Voices fan when Sandbox was released in 1987 (I would have had very good taste for a seven-year-old), but those older albums were some of the first GBV music I heard. My introduction to their music came circa […]
Song And Dance
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Nowhere To Go But Up “Song And Dance” closes out Nowhere To Go But Up with a slow-burn groove based around one chord progression for most of the song, building up intensity that eventually leads into a faster tempo section. You need to be logged in to view the […]
Puncher’s Parade
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Nowhere To Go But Up I talk a lot on this site about Robert Pollard’s compositions that use non-standard chord voicings. Typically these are made up of common chord shapes being taken from their usual frets on the guitar neck and transposed to different strings or fret positions. But […]
The Race Is On, The King Is Dead
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Nowhere To Go But Up In my opinion, there was no better choice to open the Nowhere To Go But Up album than the song “The Race Is On, The King Is Dead.” From the opening guitar riff that repeats throughout the song to its majestic descending chord ending, […]
We’re Going The Wrong Way In
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Nowhere To Go But Up To play “We’re Going The Wrong Way In” on guitar, we’ll use a combination of arpeggios and chord strumming, with some of the chords being Robert Pollard’s typical floated D shapes. You need to be logged in to view the rest of the content. […]
Stabbing At Fractions
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Nowhere To Go But Up “Stabbing At Fractions” is a pretty straightforward rock song that uses mostly strummed power chords for the guitar parts, though Robert Pollard also incorporates one of his favorite guitar techniques that I call “dropping the bass.” This move consists of removing the fretting finger […]
