The Beach Boys Anthology Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords

This seemed to have the best selection of surf era Beach Boys and the later "heavier" stuff. I was looking for the music to God Only Knows, which is covered here. Contains lyrics, chords, and sheet music for piano players. It would be difficult to cover the Beach Boys in one book, but this one comes as close as I have seen.

Music for piano, guitar and more. Many of the Beach Boys best tunes.

??? "Miniature golf and hunting in the hills" ???This lyric from "All Summer Long" should read"Miniature golf and Hondas in the hills"My dad loved hunting, but it isn't part of the Beach Boys iconographic imagery and those aren't the words. This is almost as bad as the often misheard "Scuse me while I KISS THIS GUY" Hendrix lyric.So some editor or proofreader dropped the beach ball, at least on this song.Other than that, this book includes numbers that you won't find in other books, including the aforementioned "All Summer Long," "Do It Again," "Don't Back Down," "Pet Sounds," "Please Let Me Wonder," "Surfers Rule," "Wendy," "Wild Honey" and "You're So Good to Me," 44 songs in all.I'm curious how it stacks up against other Hal Leonard collections; "Beach Boys CD-ROM Sheet Music" which provides 50 songs in electronic versions that can be printed or "Beach Boys-The Little Black Songbook" which has 90 songs but comes in a smaller (4.5" by 7.5") format.For my money, the 2 best BB books are:The Beach Boys Note-for-Note Vocal TranscriptionsandThe Beach Boys Definitive CollectionBoth of these are much more specialized and the "Definitive Collection" is lots of fun to read and execute for guitarists and Beach Boys fans alike.That being said, either of those books contain half as many songs as you will find in "Anthology." And this book is quite useable; I have picked out a chord melody to "Wouldn't It Be Nice" and found "Anthology" to be a 96% functional book. Since Brian Wilson wrote these songs on piano in keys suited to a vocal ensemble, this is a very good tool to have indeed for the average guitarist trying to find their way around more than just the hits. Though you could get by on this book alone, without references geared toward vocals and guitar, you would not be getting the whole picture.The Beach Boys went from some of the most visceral Garage-band music ever made to a level of sophistication that influenced the Beatles. It seems appropriate that a group of kids singing about surfing should be one of the few American bands able to stand up creatively to the overwhelming tide of the British Invasion. They created and maintained a totally unique sound; if you want to take a look at how they did it, this book will help.Just double-check the lyrics.

Sorry, I got this review mixed up with something else. The book was big like it should be. There was plenty of good songs and it was a good experience. Sorry for the mixup.

These songs in the book are not set to the actual key signature of the original recordings. They also have spots of wrong lyrics. And good vibrations was incomplete and did not have the full song which is why I purchased it. Was disappointing.

Indispensably fulfilled a request for memorial music

Product as stated , quick delivery

Nice selection of the band’s hits

It has a lot of songs in it! I totally recommend it to Beach Boys fans!

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Most of their songs so happy with the book!

It's impossible to cover the Beach Boys output in about 130 pages of music. Having said that, the book gives a good overlook of their 1960s titles even if I miss some personal favourites. If you like the Beach Boys and either play piano or like programming sheet music into your Cubase (or similar) for play and sing along fun, I guess you will find a lot of fun here.

Nice to have the basics. It would be better to have more songs.