The Only Living Boy In New York - Simon & Garfunkel - Guitar Lessonby Simon and Garfunkel

Lesson notes

The Only Living Boy In New York is a song written by Paul Simon and performed by Simon & Garfunkel. It is the eighth track on their last studio album ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’.

This lesson covers the chords, the strumming, the progression and breaks down the guitar riff, in the 2nd instrumental part.

The arrangement is done in the key of G, where the guitar is capoed on the 4th fret. It includes easy strumming in double time, several passing bass notes and a few hammer-ons.

For vocal reasons, I prefer to play the song in the key of D and I figured that other female vocalists might wanna do the same. For that a segment of playing in that key is included.