By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Welshpool Frillies I often tend to think that “Don’t Blow Your Dream Job” is longer than it actually is; at just over three and a half minutes, it’s the third longest on Welshpool Frillies, beaten out by “Rust Belt Boogie” and (just barely) by album opener “Meet The Star.” […]
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Romeo Surgeon
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Welshpool Frillies Floating chord shapes is the preferred guitar technique Robert Pollard used in composing “Romeo Surgeon,” with the open position D and E chord shapes being played in various positions on the fretboard. Other than that, there are just a few power chords, so it’s pretty easy and […]
Chain Dance
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Welshpool Frillies It’s always fun when Guided By Voices includes a couple of Robert Pollard’s boombox demos alongside the more polished tracks on an album. On Welshpool Frillies, we get “Chain Dance” and “Mother Mirth,” the former of which we’ll look at in this post. You need to be […]
Seedling
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Welshpool Frillies In “Seedling,” Robert Pollard uses an open drone string guitar technique during the verses, alternating between fretted notes on the third string and the B note on the open second string. The rest of the rhythm guitar part is just strumming of some simple chord shapes, but […]
