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 […]
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The Birthday Democrats
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: How Do You Spell Heaven “The Birthday Democrats” provides a solid opening track for How Do You Spell Heaven. Robert Pollard’s main guitar riff, which occurs before the verses and during the song’s ending, is simple to play on guitar and very catchy. You need to be logged in […]
Nothing Gets You Real
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: How Do You Spell Heaven “Nothing Gets You Real” features a common Robert Pollard guitar technique that I refer to as “Floating Chord Shapes,” where an open position chord shape is moved up the neck to a different fret. In the case of this song, the open position chords […]
Low Flying Perfection
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: How Do You Spell Heaven “Low Flying Perfection,” for me, is a high point of How Do You Spell Heaven. It’s a perfect example of Robert Pollard’s more “mature” songwriting at play; but also, the dynamics between the louder and quieter parts of the song and the superb vocal […]
Just To Show You
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: How Do You Spell Heaven As far as Guided By Voices closing tracks go, “Just To Show You” ends How Do You Spell Heaven on a relatively non-rocking note. Is it a sign of Robert Pollard’s maturity, or is he just keeping us all on our toes by taking […]
Tenth Century
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: How Do You Spell Heaven “Tenth Century” from How Do You Spell Heaven is one of those great “cool-down” numbers that Robert Pollard likes to throw onto his albums, just to take a break from the near-constant rocking. Although it stays pretty light for the most part, with acoustic guitars […]
King 007
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: How Do You Spell Heaven Some fans have described “King 007” from How Do You Spell Heaven as having a jazz feel due to the opening chord progression. The chords go from E major to Am7, back to E major, and then to a D6, which is shown in the guitar […]
Steppenwolf Mausoleum
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: How Do You Spell Heaven What is this murky, abysmal sound enveloping your soul? Oh, it’s just “Steppenwolf Mausoleum,” one of the highlights of the 2017 Guided By Voices album, How Do You Spell Heaven. Fear not: the gloom will soon give way to crunchy guitar tone, blasting power chords […]
