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 […]
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The Quickers Arrive
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Please Be Honest The entire Please Be Honest album showcases Robert Pollard’s multi-instrumentalist skills, but I believe “The Quickers Arrive” stands out as having one of his most creative bass lines. This post contains tab for both the guitar and bass for this song. You need to be logged […]
Hotel X (Big Soap)
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Please Be Honest “Hotel X (Big Soap)” is another great Guided By Voices song wherein Robert Pollard eschewed standard song structure in favor of a collage style. There is a bit of the intro that makes an appearance again later in the song, but for the most part, there […]
I Think A Telescope
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Please Be Honest “I Think A Telescope” finds Robert Pollard deftly plucking a series of single notes on his acoustic guitar’s strings during one of the gentler moments on Please Be Honest. He alternates between a fretted note on one string and an open note on the string above, culminating in […]
Please Be Honest
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Please Be Honest When Robert Pollard dropped Please Be Honest on us in 2016, some felt that it could just as easily have been released as a solo album instead of under the Guided By Voices moniker. Of course, Pollard did play all the instruments on the album by himself, […]
