Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 21:13:09 -0500
From: Andrew Rogers
Subject: b/beach_boys/good_vibrations.crd
"Good Vibrations"
(Brian Wilson - Mike Love)

[Verse 1]
Bass 1 w/organ (chords as indicated; quarter-notes)

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D|-------13---
A|------------
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  I           

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   I love the 

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colorful


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D|-------11---
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  clothes she 

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wears         

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  and the


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  way the sunl

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ight plays upo

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n her


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  hair

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[Bass 1 continues as above; bass 2 enters]
[Bass 2]

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   hear the so

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und of a


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  gentle word 

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   on the


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  wind that li

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fts her perfum

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e through the

[Bass 1]
            
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D|-------8----
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[Bass 2]
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A|-1----------
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         air

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[Chorus]
{R.H. keyboard voicings for chorus chords (from watching Brian Wilson
 play it on a portable keyboard on some TV special):
Gb:                
Cb/Gb:             
Dbmadd11/Gb:       
Ab:                
Db/Ab:              
Ebmadd11/Ab:       
Bb:                  
Eb/Bb:              
Fmadd11/Bb:          

N.B.: I've omitted the "add11" notation below for legibility.}

[Bass]
       
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G|------------
D|-----4---2--
A|------------
E|-2----------
   I'm pickin'

-----|--------
-1---|--------
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 up good vibra

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tions

       
She's givin' m

        
e the excitati


ons
       
   I'm pickin'

    
 up good vibra


tions
(mmm, bop-bop             good vibrations)
       
   She's givin

        
' me the excit

 
ations
       (bop-bop             excitations)

[Bass]
       
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D|-----6---4--
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   I'm pickin'
(good, good, g

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 up good vibra
ood, good vibr

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tions
ations)
       
   She's givin

    
' me the excit


ations
(bop-bop                  excitations)

[Bass]
       
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D|-----8---6--
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   I'm pickin'
(good, good, g

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 up good vibra
ood, good vibr

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tions
ations)

       
She's givin' m

  
e the excitati

ons
(bop-bop                  exci...)

[Verse 2]
   Close my eyes, she's somehow closer now
(...tations)
Softly smile, I know she must be kind
When I look in her eyes
She goes with me to a blossom world

[Repeat Chorus]

[Bridge 1]
Tack piano w/bass (half notes):
    
  /   /   /   

         
/    /   /   /

     (
   /
     1: (...tations)
     3: (theremin enters)
     5: aaaaaahhhhhh
     6: My, my, my what elation

       
I don't know w

          
here but she s

      
ends me there
   
 (My,   my,   

  
my, what a)

  
  Oh,  my,  my

  
,  what
(sensation)
  
Elation

  
 (my,   my, my, what)

[Bridge 2]
Organ (sustained chords) w/tambourine:
             
/ / / /   / / 

            
/ /  / / / /  


/ / / /

(Repeat x4; bass enters 2nd time, harmonica 3rd, vocals fade 3rd):

 
Gotta keep tho

se lovin' good
            
Vibrations a-h


appenin' with 

her

             
/ / / /   / / 

         
/ /  / / / /  

  
/ . . .
                   aaaaahhhhh

[Coda] (Bass lines as per chorus)
             
    
Good,  good,  

 
good,  good vi

brations

         
       
Good,  good,  

   
good,  good vi

brations

       
/   /   /   / 

    
    /   /   / 


  /
A capella w/fuzz bass (half notes) and tambourine:


La-da-da-da-da

  da-da-da

La-da-da-da-da

  da-da-da

La-da-da-da-da

  da-da-da

La-da-da-da-da

  da-da-da

Theremin and cellos (quarter-note triplets):

(
 / / / /  / / 

/ /

[Bass] (as per chorus), keyboard, drums re-enter:

       
Db/Ab    (Repe

 
at to fade)
/   /   /   /     /   /   /   /