By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Mirrored Aztec “Haircut Sphinx” is a pretty simple song to play on guitar, as there are no unconventional chord shapes; we just have power chords using the root-fifth-root octave shape. After the tablature for the main parts of the song, I’ve also included Doug Gillard’s lead fills, so you’ll […]
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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 […]
Math Rock
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Mirrored Aztec Sure, this song sounds best if you have a bassist, drummer, and children’s choir (maybe also a toy piano) to play it with you, but it’s still fun to learn on guitar! You need to be logged in to view the rest of the content. Please Log […]
I Touch Down
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Mirrored Aztec When I first listened to “I Touch Down,” I heard a lot of unique chord voicings and assumed Robert Pollard must have been using a slew of unconventional chord shapes to play this song. As I started to learn how to play it on guitar, however, I […]
Show Of Hands
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Mirrored Aztec The main guitar riff in “Show Of Hands” is an instant classic Robert Pollard riff, alternating between strummed fifth chords and arpeggios. All in all, this song is fairly simple in terms of song structure and ease of playing. You need to be logged in to view […]
I Think I Had It. I Think I Have It Again
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Mirrored Aztec Mirrored Aztec opening track “I Think I Had It. I Think I Have It Again” starts off with a guitar riff built on open string drones. From there, Robert Pollard uses some floating chord shapes in the chorus, with an open D note droning throughout. You need […]
Bunco Men
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Mirrored Aztec, Suitcase – Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft I used to write songs. After a while, it started to feel pointless. Robert Pollard was writing songs like “Bunco Men” and then not even releasing them on albums; we didn’t get to hear most of them until the first […]
