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Wrinkled Ghost

By: Robert Pollard Appears on: Waved Out Simple in both instrumentation and composition, but nonetheless splendid, is “Wrinkled Ghost” from Robert Pollard’s Waved Out album. Pollard has two guitar parts in this song that are included in the transcription, as well as a keyboard part that comes in during the second chorus. You need to […]

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Tonight’s The Rodeo

By: Robert Pollard Appears on: Blazing Gentlemen For Robert Pollard’s 66th birthday I’ve decided to tab out “Tonight’s The Rodeo” from the Blazing Gentlemen album. Todd Tobias recorded some tasteful lead parts that aren’t too difficult to play on guitar, which are included in this transcription. You need to be logged in to view the […]

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Artificial Light

By: Robert Pollard Appears on: Waved Out Just as I theorized regarding the non-standard tuning for “Drinker’s Peace,” I believe Robert Pollard may have stumbled upon the tuning for “Artificial Light” amid a similar situation (i.e., there was a guitar with a string already de-tuned, Pollard picked it up and started playing using his typical […]

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Payment For The Babies

By: Robert Pollard Appears on: From A Compound Eye Whenever I take the time to transcribe all the guitar parts for a song off one of the many albums Robert Pollard and Todd Tobias made together, it’s always a rewarding experience. Tobias tends to layer several intricately composed guitar parts onto Pollard’s main guitar track, […]

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Science Magazine

By: Robert Pollard Appears on: Mouseman Cloud Todd Tobias did an excellent job of making Robert Pollard’s song “Science Magazine” sound like a lo-fi GBV track from the classic era by recording on 8-track and using a drum sample run through a distortion pedal for the percussion. You could probably slide this track in between […]

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Up For All That

By: Robert Pollard Appears on: Jack Sells The Cow According to Todd Tobias, Robert Pollard played both the rhythm and lead guitars on “Up For All That,” so that’s his full barre chord strumming during the verses and terrific sixth string solo that we hear on the album recording. During the choruses, Pollard uses some […]

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Town Of Mirrors

By: Robert Pollard Appears on: Kid Marine I wish more songs had been recorded like “Town Of Mirrors.” There’s a guitar hard-panned to the right channel, another hard-panned to the left channel, and vocals dead center. It just makes it so much easier to isolate the separate guitar parts for transcribing purposes. So in this […]

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