By: Robert Pollard with Doug Gillard Appears on: Speak Kindly Of Your Volunteer Fire Department “Port Authority” is one of the tracks on Speak Kindly Of Your Volunteer Fire Department for which Doug Gillard, not Robert Pollard, wrote the music. This song uses an alternate guitar tuning and lots of arpeggio. You need to be […]
Tag: Arpeggio
The Enemy
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Isolation Drills In “The Enemy,” Robert Pollard dips into his arsenal of guitar writing techniques and pulls out a little bit of everything: a heavy, bottom-string guitar riff that’s played during the verses, a gentle arpeggio riff during a quiet section of the song, and a floating chord shape […]
I Can Illustrate
By: Robert Pollard Appears on: Of Course You Are Back when I tabbed out Ricked Wicky tune “Map And Key” for this website, I shied away from attempting to transcribe Nick Mitchell’s excellent guitar solo, despite it being one of my favorite guitar parts from any Robert Pollard-related project. For “I Can Illustrate,” I took […]
Show Of Hands
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Mirrored Aztec The main guitar riff in “Show Of Hands” is an instant classic Robert Pollard riff, alternating between strummed fifth chords and arpeggios. All in all, this song is fairly simple in terms of song structure and ease of playing. You need to be logged in to view […]
The Quickers Arrive
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Please Be Honest The entire Please Be Honest album showcases Robert Pollard’s multi-instrumentalist skills, but I believe “The Quickers Arrive” stands out as having one of his most creative bass lines. This post contains tab for both the guitar and bass for this song. You need to be logged […]
Pretty Bombs
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Universal Truths And Cycles “Pretty Bombs” is my favorite kind of Robert Pollard song to play on guitar. It moves around a lot from one part to another, and incorporates both strummed chords and arpeggio figures. I used to consider this to be a song that I would probably […]
Everybody Thinks I’m A Raincloud (When I’m Not Looking)
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My Wrestling Days Are Over
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Sweating The Plague On “My Wrestling Days Are Over,” Guided By Voices took a Psycho And The Birds approach to recording: the band used Robert Pollard’s original boombox demo as the main vocal and guitar track and then recorded additional guitar and synth overdubs to it. In my opinion, […]
Shocker In Gloomtown
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: The Grand Hour “Shocker In Gloomtown” was released on the EP The Grand Hour in 1993, and Guided By Voices has been performing it at almost live show since then. Check the song’s live stats on GBVDB; it’s right up there behind the other classics such as “Game Of […]
Heavy Like The World
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Sweating The Plague “Heavy Like The World” is one of two revamped Suitcase tracks on Sweating The Plague, along with “Your Cricket Is Rather Unique” (the original “Heavy Like The World” was titled “I’d Choose You” and appears on Suitcase 2: American Superdream Wow). Another trait they share is […]
