By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Strut Of Kings Another new GBV album, another new song about a king. This time, Robert Pollard is serving up “Serene King,” which I’m fairly certain will remain playing in my head for years to come. The rhythm guitar work is pretty straightforward, with a few simple but oh-so-tasteful […]
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Local Master Airplane
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Nowhere To Go But Up In “Local Master Airplane,” Robert Pollard uses his floating chord shapes guitar technique, using the open position Asus2 shape in different neck positions, similar to the verses of “Tractor Rape Chain.” You need to be logged in to view the rest of the content. […]
Eye Shop Heaven
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Please Be Honest If the chords in “Eye Shop Heaven” sound a bit chunky on the low end, it’s because Robert Pollard made use of inverted chords in this song. All this means is that the lowest note of the chord is not its root note. For example, he’d […]
Peep-Hole
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Bee Thousand “Peep-Hole” is one of the classic songs on Bee Thousand that’s sure to have everyone singing along when performed live. Although it appears on the album as an acoustic song, it is often played in concert by the full band. It’s always a crowd-pleaser, especially when Robert […]
An Earful O’ Wax
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 […]
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 […]
