By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Warp And Woof So many of Robert Pollard’s songs include a sampling of guitar arpeggio here or there, but there are some occasions where the arpeggio style comprises nearly the entire song. In “Even Next,” the majority of the guitar work is arpeggio, with some light chord strumming right […]
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My Dog Surprise
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Warp And Woof As the legend goes, Robert Pollard conjured the song title “My Dog Surprise” after mishearing a lyric in Cream’s “Sunshine Of Your Love” (“I’ll soon be with you, my love/give you my dawn surprise“). I can’t help but wonder, then, if this is the reason for […]
Angelic Weirdness
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Warp And Woof “Angelic Weirdness” is played with lots of open guitar strings with mostly common chord shapes. Even the ones that are somewhat unconventional are fairly common in Robert Pollard compositions, so they’re good to know. And how about that Mark Shue bass line during the second verse? […]
Coming Back From Now On
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Warp And Woof “Coming Back From Now On” is based on a guitar riff that would sound right at home on any live arena rock album. Actually, this might account for the audience samples that were used on this track, not to mention the inclusion of the traditional song […]
Dead Liquor Store
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Warp And Woof “Dead Liquor Store” features two main guitar parts throughout most of the song: a rhythm guitar to strum the chords and a lead guitar to play the open string drone riffs. These riffs involve a fretted note on the second string with the open first string ringing […]
End It With Light
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Warp And Woof Robert Pollard has a knack for masterfully sequencing his albums and always seems to pick a perfect closing track; “End It With Light” on Warp And Woof is certainly no exception. In this post, we’ll take a look at the chords and guitar tablature to play it. […]
Time Remains In Central Position
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Warp And Woof “Time Remains In Central Position” is a great slow rocker from the Warp And Woof album, with Robert Pollard once again floating the open A major chord shape to various frets to create unique chord voicings. The fifth chord shape is also used, with the fretted notes […]
Cool Jewels And Aprons
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Warp And Woof Playing “Cool Jewels And Aprons” on one guitar sounds fine, but I’ve included tablature for some of the lead guitar parts as well, or at least my best approximation of what the lead guitar is playing. I’d also like to note that the lyrics in this post […]
Blue Jay House
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Warp And Woof A few chords and a few riffs are all it takes to play “Blue Jay House” from Warp And Woof, although you could really do it justice by throwing in an organ, too. For one of the figures in this post, I’ve split the tablature into two […]
More Reduction Linda
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Warp And Woof The songs on Warp And Woof are all pretty brief, with only two of them passing the two-minute mark. And yet, as always, Robert Pollard manages to stuff more hooks into each tune than imaginable. On “More Reduction Linda,” he includes a killer riff during the verses […]
