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Good Vibrations

The Beach Boys

Key: Eb minor / F# major (B harp in 5th / 2nd positions)

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There's no denying it, this song is fiendishly difficult on the diatonic harmonica. I have done my best to tab out the verse and chorus sections (including the counter-line for the chorus). These tabs contain lots of bends and several overblows as well. I've left out the latter stages of the song as it contains more far-out key changes!


VERSE 1:

5  -4  -3   -3  -3  -3   5   5   6     -6      -4    -4   4   -3

I………  I love the colourful clothes she we-ea-rs

-3//  -3     4   -4    -3// -3     4   -3  -3// -2  -3// -2  -2/

And the way the sunlight plays upon her  ha-ai-r

   -7           -7   -7     -7   -6  6  -4  5  -3  -3//  -2

I………  hear the sound of a gentle wo-o-ord

-3// -3     4      -4  -3//  -3     4  -3      -3//     -2   -3// -2  -2/

On the wind that lifts her perfume through the  ai-ai-air


CHORUS:

  6   -5  -5    5     3     -3//  4   -4

I'm pickin' up good vibrations

   6     -5  -5   5    5   3  -3//  4   -4

She's giving me the excitations

  6   -5  -5    5     3     -3//  4   -4

I'm pickin' up good vibrations

   6     -5  -5   5    5   3  -3//  4   -4

She's giving me the excitations

-6    6   6    5*   -3//   -3  -4  5

I'm pickin' up good vibrations

  -6     6    6   5* 5*  -3// -3  -4  5

She's giving me the excitations

 -7    -6 -6   -6/   -3 -4/  5  5*

I'm pickin' up good vibrations

 -7      -6 -6   -6/  -6/  -3 -4/  5  5*

She's giving me the excitations


Chorus counter-melody:

-3  4  4 -4  4   4  -3    4   4

Good, bap bap, good vibrations, bap bap

-4 -4/ -4/ -3// -4/ -4/ 5 -4 -4/ -3// -4/ -4/

Ex-cit-ati-ons, bap bap, good vibrations, bap bap

5 -4 -4 -3  5   5   5*  5 5 4*   5  5

Excitations, bap bap, good vibrations, bap bap

5* 5 5

Excitate…


VERSE 2:

 5       5    5  -4  -3    -3       5      6    -6 -4  -4   4   -3

Close my e-e-eyes, she's somehow closer no-o-ow

4   -4     -3// -3    4    -3    -3//  -2  -3// -2  -2/

Softly smile, I know she must be ki-i-ind

   -7            -6   6  -4  5  -3  -3//  -2

When……  I look in her e-e-eyes

-3//   -3      4   -4  -3// -3  4   -3     -3//

She goes with me to a blossom world


[CHORUS]

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