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 always talk about. With Floating Chord Shapes, Pollard takes a shape such as an open D chord and moves it up to the fifth and sixth frets, for example. What he’s doing here is taking an Em chord shape and playing it on different strings entirely.
