By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Do The Collapse “Things I Will Keep” is one of my top favorite GBV songs of all time, which is a tough list to whittle down (as we all know). It also features my favorite guitar solo by Doug Gillard. “Cheyenne” and “Slick As Snails” are also top contenders, […]
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Larger Massachusetts
By: Robert Pollard With Doug Gillard Appears on: Speak Kindly Of Your Volunteer Fire Department The subject of today’s post is another of the Doug Gillard compositions from the Speak Kindly… collaboration album between Gillard and Robert Pollard. For “Larger Massachusetts,” Gillard composed the music in addition to recording the instruments, leaving Pollard to fill […]
Frequent Weaver Who Burns
By: Robert Pollard With Doug Gillard Appears on: Speak Kindly Of Your Volunteer Fire Department “Frequent Weaver Who Burns” kicks off the classic collaboration album from Robert Pollard and Doug Gillard with classic Pollard guitar moves such as arpeggios and open string drones. This is a simple song that’s a joy to play on guitar. […]
Psychic Pilot Clocks Out
By: Robert Pollard Appears on: Not In My Airforce “Psychic Pilot Clocks Out” features a lot of the open-string drone guitar technique, using the open fourth string D note ringing out through several sections of the song. If you haven’t seen it yet, do check out the porch performance from “The Who Went Home And […]
Elfin Flower With Knees
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Universe Room “Elfin Flower With Knees” uses an open string drone guitar technique, with a fretted note on the second string along with the open third string. The fretted note on the second string drops down to an open string for the song’s main riff, but there are a […]
I Will Be A Monk
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Universe Room For such a brief song, there are a lot of fun guitar lines to play in “I Will Be A Monk,” including Doug Gillard’s lead parts, for which he employs a wah pedal. You need to be logged in to view the rest of the content. Please […]
Dawn Believes
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Universe Room “Dawn Believes” was the Universe Room track assigned to Doug Gillard to record all instrumentation, so of course we can expect it to have some embellishments on Robert Pollard’s original composition. Using an array of layered guitars, Gillard altered some chord voicings and added some transitional fills, […]
The Great Man
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Universe Room “The Great Man” was the second single released from the Universe Room album and features an insistent, rhythmic guitar riff accentuated with Psycho inspired string stabs. For the main guitar riffs, Robert Pollard uses an open string drone technique, with a fretted note on one string along […]
Lurker On The Threshold
By: Children’s Crusade Appears on: A Duty-Dance With Death I’m including a non-Pollard project as a tab post today, but with good reason. Today is Doug Gillard’s birthday, so I chose a song he wrote and recorded with his high-school band Children’s Crusade: “Lurker On The Threshold” (the album is available now through Rockathon Records!). […]
Action Speaks Volumes
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: The Pipe Dreams Of Instant Prince Whippet The guitar work throughout “Action Speaks Volumes” consists of a single stum of a chord (there are many of Robert Pollard’s favorite chord shapes included in this song) followed by two E notes on the open sixth string. With this constant rhythmic […]
