Man my favorite Beach Boy song made simple so I thought until I tried playing it ..you did I great job showing me how to play this song AND I will play it on my 70 yrs old fingers... I have requested you before the one song before is the Endless Summer by the Sandels that a beautiful song of my youthful days of surfing...boy with the notes of surfer girl I think I can get a hold of this one thanks so much Tom Conlon you made an old man happy
Tom just nailing it ❤ (the man exudes flawlessness 😉) (with echoes of north woods timber like cadence resolving into colder, more sunlight acknowledgement, unpacked for all to see ❤)
really enjoyed this. I was analyzing the interesting chord progression. I like how the progression modulates a half step up to build excitement. not a whole lot bands do that anymore. another band that did that - Ramones
I’ve been playing your arrangements for the last few years on my gretsch and I bought a fender vintera 60 jazzmaster because of you Thanks for the kickass content dude It’s Olympic white with matching headstock
I just found this; it wasn’t in the Surf Guitar playlist. I made my own cover of this but I’m setting to work right away on your vastly superior version! I was planning also on working out In My Room, the arpeggio-type staggered harmonies and such. So here’s the deal. As with Surfer Girl, I’ll get to work on my version of it-and then learn yours when you post it! 😄
One of my favorite Beach Boys songs! I learnt this last year along with others, the actual rhythm guitar considering the double guitar set up with Al Jardine and Dennis Wilson. You've done a very nice job "instrumentalizing" the entire song with just one guitar. Just like you did with" I get around " last week. May I put forward a suggestion? how about" home" by the Ventures? Such a beautiful tune, and listen to that drip! If anyone can do it, that's you Tom! 😉
Tom I am a big fan of all your work and have downloaded several of your backing tracks. I heard a song today on one of my Pandora playlists and thought of you. I would like to see you do a cover, tab and backing track for "Nights in White Satin" if you haven't already. I believe it was covered by The Shadows. Thanks again for all your hard work.
I was wondering how to go about taking a melody from a song and transposing it into a chord progression the way you do? It's easy enough to play a melody using single notes, but the way you play the melody with often 3 or 4 notes always amazes me. It adds so much more depth to the arrangement and I'd love to be able to do that, so I was wondering if you can please push me in the right direction of learning how to do it? It works really well with beach boys songs seeing as those guys always have brilliant harmonies
There a great player and teacher online named Tim Lerch. I took a handful of lessons with him and got a lot of ideas from him. He really pushed me to learn chord shapes and arpeggios of jazz blues progressions and standards. He has greats video on RU-vid and he also offers online lessons. I never mastered it but got a lot of ideas from his approach. I want to go and learn more! Also check out Ted Greene. He was the master of playing accompaniment and melody simultaneously on the guitar.
Part of it is learning to play chords with only 2, 3, or sometimes 4 notes on several places up the fretboard. And knowing what the melody note is and how it connects to that chord. I don’t know a ton but what I learned stuck with me enough that I have my go-to back of tricks.
@@tomcon21 Thanks man! I really appreciate you taking the time out to reply. I've been watching your videos for a while now so I've actually been meaning to ask you about that for a while. I'll need to check out Tim Lerch and Ted Greene! I love the style that you play in so I'm looking forward to trying to pick up on some of those techniques you use cause I'm always impressed with your videos. Thanks again mate, all the best!
@@tomcon21 two of the best to study from r.i.p.Ted Tom could you play Bluesette by Lenny Breau from the Velvet Touch album. I first heard Lenny play it live about 50 years ago and I could never figure it out on my own. It still gives me shivers. Thanks from Toronto ❣️
Thanks Tom. I've learned a lot from your solos and now have about a dozen of them under my belt. There is what appears to be a small error in measure 13, just before the chorus. The G chord should be G Maj7. Stay well, best regards from Canada.
I told my wife that I needed to buy a Jag to play this song but she didn't believe me so I showed her your video playing a Jaguar but I need YOU tell her that a Jag can only can be played because thats what the Beach Boys used for this song anything else doesn't sound the same and you know that I am right..so tell her her...I need a Jaguar..I will even take a Squier
