By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Thick Rich And Delicious “A Tribute To Beatle Bob” uses some simple chord shapes and a quick riff during the intro/verse progression, so this could have been a very short tablature post. Instead, I’ve tried to transcribe the myriad grace notes, ghost notes, and other variations that Doug Gillard […]
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Lucy’s World
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Thick Rich And Delicious The recording process for Thick Rich And Delicious gave Guided By Voices guitarist Doug Gillard a lot of freedom to riff on Robert Pollard’s somewhat simple chord progressions. As the sole guitar track on the recording, Gillard adds lead fills and plays with different chord […]
Class Clown Spots A UFO
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Class Clown Spots A UFO It’s a great rocking reworking of “Crocker’s Favorite Song” from King Shit And The Golden Boys! It’s a title track! Let’s get to the tablature! You need to be logged in to view the rest of the content. Please Log In. Not a Member? […]
As We Go Up, We Go Down
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Alien Lanes “As We Go Up, We Go Down” has certainly been around for quite a while. And yet, there still seems to be some confusion on guitar tab sites as to how to play it. This transcription aims to clear it up, and includes tablature for the bassline […]
Things I Will Keep
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
