By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Nowhere To Go But Up I talk a lot on this site about Robert Pollard’s compositions that use non-standard chord voicings. Typically these are made up of common chord shapes being taken from their usual frets on the guitar neck and transposed to different strings or fret positions. But […]
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The Race Is On, The King Is Dead
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Nowhere To Go But Up In my opinion, there was no better choice to open the Nowhere To Go But Up album than the song “The Race Is On, The King Is Dead.” From the opening guitar riff that repeats throughout the song to its majestic descending chord ending, […]
We’re Going The Wrong Way In
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Nowhere To Go But Up To play “We’re Going The Wrong Way In” on guitar, we’ll use a combination of arpeggios and chord strumming, with some of the chords being Robert Pollard’s typical floated D shapes. You need to be logged in to view the rest of the content. […]
Stabbing At Fractions
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Nowhere To Go But Up “Stabbing At Fractions” is a pretty straightforward rock song that uses mostly strummed power chords for the guitar parts, though Robert Pollard also incorporates one of his favorite guitar techniques that I call “dropping the bass.” This move consists of removing the fretting finger […]
Don’t Blow Your Dream Job
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.” […]
White Flag
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: The Bears For Lunch Even as short as it is, the majority of “White Flag” is instrumental, with vocals taking up only about thirty seconds’ worth of the song’s total running time of two minutes and fifteen seconds. Robert Pollard’s rolling guitar arpeggios and Greg Demos’ high-register bass guitar […]
Legendary Breakfast Code
By: Circus Devils Appears on: Capsized! Thanks yet again to Todd Tobias, I’m happy to present another official Circus Devils tab, and it’s for “Legendary Breakfast Code” from Capsized! There are a lot of crazy, chaotic moments on this album, but this song is one of the calmer tunes (which are probably only there to […]
Black And White Eyes In A Prism
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: It’s Not Them. It Couldn’t Be Them. It Is Them! With all the albums the current (as of this writing) lineup of Guided By Voices has been releasing, it can sometimes be easy to overlook stand-out tracks such as “Black And White Eyes In A Prism.” If you’ve forgotten […]
Knock ‘Em Flyin’
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Mag Earwhig!, Tonics & Twisted Chasers “Knock ‘Em Flyin’” was one of the Mag Earwhig! tunes that was recorded prior to the Cobra Verde lineup joining forces with Guided By Voices (and also previously recorded for the Tonics & Twisted Chasers album). In fact, Robert Pollard is credited as […]
Cockroach Whiskey
By: Circus Devils Appears on: Laughs Last Quick! Has Robert Pollard written more songs with the word “cock” in the title, or with “whiskey” in the title? I didn’t bother to find out, but “Cockroach Whiskey” from the Circus Devils release Laughs Last contains both, and that’s the song we’re working on today. You need […]
