By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Isolation Drills “Twilight Campfighter” includes a lot of guitar chord strumming but also some arpeggio work, as well as a few lead fills thrown in here and there. All in all, it’s a lot of fun to play on guitar, and not too difficult if you can handle the […]
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Run Wild
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Isolation Drills “Run Wild” features several key Robert Pollard guitar techniques. The verses use an arpeggio guitar phrase as the main riff, along with an open string drone note figure. In the choruses, Pollard uses floating chord shapes, which involve moving an open position chord shape to a different […]
The Enemy
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Isolation Drills In “The Enemy,” Robert Pollard dips into his arsenal of guitar writing techniques and pulls out a little bit of everything: a heavy, bottom-string guitar riff that’s played during the verses, a gentle arpeggio riff during a quiet section of the song, and a floating chord shape […]