By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Styles We Paid For “Liquid Kid” is one of those great Robert Pollard songs that defies conventional song structure and just keeps moving from one section to another, never looking back. There are some fun dissonant chords and open-string drone riffs that make this one a lot of fun […]
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Stops
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Styles We Paid For In a Robert Pollard composition, sometimes it’s all about the chord shapes. For example, “Stops” uses several major seventh chords, but when you take a look at the voicings you can see that Pollard was most likely just using a familiar chord shape in a […]
Time Without Looking
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Styles We Paid For Whenever I hear a solid guitar riff in a Guided By Voices song, I always have to wonder if Doug Gillard conjured it up or if Robert Pollard included it in his demo by way of singing. In the case of “Time Without Looking,” it’s […]
Mr. Child
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Styles We Paid For In this post, we’ll take a look at the guitar tablature and chords for “Mr. Child” from Styles We Paid For. Besides the killer opening riff, there are a lot of fun guitar parts throughout the song to keep things interesting. You need to be […]
Roll Me To Heaven
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Styles We Paid For There’s a lot to love about “Roll Me To Heaven,” at least from this guitar-player’s perspective. It features quite a few interesting chords, several distinct sections, and an ending that contains an unexpected chord change and arpeggio, in true Robert Pollard fashion. All these elements […]
Endless Seafood
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Styles We Paid For The main guitar riff in “Endless Seafood” uses a Robert Pollard guitar technique of playing a common chord shape—in the case of this song, an open Em—in different spots of the guitar neck. This is a bit different from the “Floating Chord Shape” technique I […]
Never Abandon Ship
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Styles We Paid For Truly one of the stand-out tracks on Styles We Paid For (in my opinion at least, though there really aren’t any tracks on this album that I don’t enjoy), “Never Abandon Ship” is a brief song with a catchy guitar riff that sounds like it […]
Crash At Lake Placebo
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Styles We Paid For How Robert Pollard continues to still write such memorable guitar riffs is beyond me, but here we are with “Crash At Lake Placebo,” with once again a super hooky main guitar riff. This song features an extended instrumental section, which seems a bit rare in […]
