By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Surrender Your Poppy Field I don’t know whether “Physician” is my favorite song on Surrender Your Poppy Field or just my favorite to play on guitar, but maybe it’s both. There are some quirky changes throughout and the whole middle section provides a nice break from the tempo of […]
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Paper Cutz
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: How Do You Spell Heaven “Paper Cutz” is full of repeating riffs, but they never seem to repeat quite in the same way every time throughout the song. Therefore, this transcription contains a few longer sections of tablature where you’ll see recurrences of earlier guitar riffs and phrases. You […]
Substitute 11
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: August By Cake “Substitute 11” is a pretty easy song to play on guitar. There’s no fancy guitar work, just a simple riff and some strummed chords, all of which use the same chord shape. You need to be logged in to view the rest of the content. Please […]
Break Even
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: The Grand Hour “Break Even” features some raucous vocal work by Robert Pollard that you just don’t hear any more these days. In terms of songwriting, however, this one is pretty similar to a lot of the loose song structure tunes Pollard still gifts to us on every album. […]
Liquid Kid
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Styles We Paid For “Liquid Kid” is one of those great Robert Pollard songs that defies conventional song structure and just keeps moving from one section to another, never looking back. There are some fun dissonant chords and open-string drone riffs that make this one a lot of fun […]
Secret Star
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Earthquake Glue “Secret Star” was included in Guided By Voices’ live shows from April 2003 (several months before Earthquake Glue was released) until the band’s final performance on 12/31 of 2004. I originally tabbed out the guitar parts for the Chords page of the old gbv.com website, but frankly […]
To Keep An Area
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Mirrored Aztec “To Keep An Area” features two very common Robert Pollard guitar techniques: floating chord shapes and two-note drone chords. That’s pretty much the entire song, in fact, so I included Doug Gillard’s guitar solo and other lead parts in this transcription. You need to be logged in […]
Come North Together
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Crystal Nuns Cathedral You know how Robert Pollard records demo versions of his songs by hitting the Record button on his boom box, playing part of the song, hitting the Stop button, and repeating this process for the rest of the parts, just to splice the individual pieces into […]
Climbing A Ramp
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Crystal Nuns Cathedral The main guitar part in “Climbing A Ramp” consists of very sparse chord strumming (until, of course, the guitar solo comes in near the song’s end). For this transcription, I’ve included a guitar arrangement of the cello part. You need to be logged in to view […]
Crystal Nuns Cathedral
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Crystal Nuns Cathedral The title track from the Crystal Nuns Cathedral album acts as the perfect closer, wrapping up to a phenomenal collection of songs. This song is a pop masterpiece, the kind we pretty much expect from Robert Pollard at this point, yet it still surprises me that […]
