How to play 'God Only Knows' by The Beach Boys on Guitar

Here’s my arrangement of how to play The Beach Boys’ classic ‘God Only Knows’ on guitar. This is taken from their 1966 album ‘Pet Sounds’, widely considered one of the most influential albums in music history.

This is such a harmonically rich song. I just couldn’t resist working it out.

I’ve tried to get this as close as possible to the sound of the original recording, with the syncopated bass line in the thumb and the piano chords in the fretting hand fingers.

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