"Wind Chimes"

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Recently I'd been reading Peter Ames Carlin's Catch a Wave: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson.  I finished it last week.

Near the end, Carlin quotes from "Wind Chimes" - "Now and then, a tear rolls off my cheek."  It got me thinking about the music that accompanies that part, and I realized that after that line (in both the 1966 and 2004 versions), there's a glissando on (I think) xylophone followed by a staccato note.  Presumably, that glissando is the tear running off the cheek, and the staccato note is the tear falling off and hitting an-other surface.

I checked the version of "Wind Chimes" from Smiley Smile, but that glissando and staccato note aren't present there.

"Let's Go Away for Awhile"

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I listened to Pet Sounds on the 16th (since it was the 49th anniversary of its release).  I figured out a guitar phrase in "Let's Go Away for Awhile," but since it's only four notes, I don't feel it's worth it to record a version until I learn some more parts.

Little Deuce Coupe

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Two weeks ago, I listened to the Little Deuce Coupe/All Summer Long re-release, and I noticed something interesting about the Little Deuce Coupe album.  "Little Deuce Coupe" - the song that starts the album - begins with what I can describe only as a drum shuffle.  That same drum phrase (or at least a very similar one) is also in "Cherry, Cherry Coupe" and "Custom Machine."  In "Cherry, Cherry Coupe," it's after the line "It's the sharpest in the town and the envy of my group," and in "Custom Machine," it's after "Step on the gas, she go…."  That particular drum part might be in a few other places in the songs too, but those are the ones I could find quickly.

Having that same part (or similar parts) within those three songs provides even more consistency (it also helps that all of the songs are about cars and two are specifically coupes).

"Let's Go Away for Awhile"

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I tried uploading an audio file to an-other of my tumblogs, and that seemed to work, so I'm attempting to post the recording of the bass part to "Let's Go Away for Awhile" that I did a few days ago.

There are still a few parts of this I'm not absolutely sure of, but they're at least close.

"Let's Go Away for Awhile"

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While listening to Pet Sounds a few days ago, I thought the bass part at the beginning of "Let's Go Away for Awhile" sounded pretty easy to figure out.  So that night, I sat down with the intention of learning it, and I actually got the whole thing.  The next night (last night), I worked a little more on a part I was unsure of and recorded a version of the whole bass part.

I've been trying to upload it here, but I keep getting errors.  So, I guess a text post will have to suffice for now.