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 […]
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Dirty Kid School
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Earth Man Blues There’s not a whole lot of fancy guitar work in “Dirty Kid School,” so the main aspect you should really try to nail down is the choppy, syncopated rhythm guitar strumming that occurs in the main verse section. You need to be logged in to view […]
How Can A Plumb Be Perfected?
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Earth Man Blues In “How Can A Plumb Be Perfected?” from Earth Man Blues, most of the guitar is based around an open-position G chord. For the verses, we’ll mostly play only the sixth and fifth strings for this chord and move it up one fret as well. During […]
The Batman Sees The Ball
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Earth Man Blues “The Batman Sees The Ball” is another in a long line of superb Robert Pollard compositions that contain a killer guitar riff in the key of A. This one reminds me a bit of the main riff in “Evolution Circus” since both are based around the […]
Send In The Suicide Squad
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Zeppelin Over China The real stars of “Send In The Suicide Squad,” in my opinion, are Robert Pollard’s vocal melody and performance (gotta love when he hits those high notes!), but there are also some great lead guitar fills and interesting chord progressions, so let’s take a look. You […]
A Flowering Orphan
By: Robert Pollard Appears on: From A Compound Eye “A Flowering Orphan” features a gorgeous string synth arrangement by Todd Tobias as the main instrument—it’s the kind of song that makes me forget that Robert Pollard originally wrote it on guitar. After hearing his demo for this song (released as part of the Hot Freaks […]
Supernatural Car Lover
By: Robert Pollard Appears on: Normal Happiness In terms of song structure, “Supernatural Car Lover” is pretty much all over the place. Especially after listening to Robert Pollard’s demo (made available via the Hot Freaks digital subscription), I get the impression this song was very much a “stream of consciousness” kind of composition, where he […]
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 […]
Field Jacket Blues
By: Robert Pollard Appears on: From A Compound Eye Today we’ll take a look at some guitar tablature for “Field Jacket Blues,” a track from Robert Pollard’s From A Compound Eye that, in my opinion, is one of his great “odd-timing” songs. I’m sure someone out there knows what time signature all these different parts […]
(I’ll Name You) The Flame That Cries
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