I remember in a few things I've read over the years, that Brian said he would sit at the piano and just play what he called "feels"... Your videos are so great.
This is so great!! Nobody is out there doing this, that I have seen. Brian Wilson's music from this period is so full of rich musical elements and it really deserves great analysis like this. I hope you have more along these lines.
Yes!! You know about that descending bass he loves to do. It's done so many times on SMiLE. It's all about the bass he had a huge grasp on the bass and how notes in the left hand can really work and hit so different against the right. Take songs like Fall Breaks/Back To Winter - that mathematical bass organ repeated riff is incredible. Or, Loopti Loop Flip Flop Flying in an Airplane has a descending rather dark tinge to that bass. I'm so happy others hear it and can understand what I've been hearing but never can articulate as well.
Thanks for this! I’d love to hear your full piano cover of Here Today sometime. Hope one of your orchestration videos eventually covers The Little Girl I Once Knew as well. They’ve been great so far - especially the one for Please Let Me Wonder.
Hi Joshilyn, could you do a video on 'Martha My Dear' by the beatles. The piano is just beautiful in this song. There is counterpoint and beautiful harmony in there which sounds a little like Bach and Mozart in it's classical style composition. Everytime I hear it it really blows me away that McCartney wrote the entire song. There is recordings of him working the song out in the sessions tapes as he is talking to Martin about the scale he derived the song from.
This was a really enlightening video. I am not a keyboard player but when I would try to figure out something new on piano I was amazed at how even I could quickly find a couple of patterns that sounded very Bria Wilson. It was also very difficult not to “accidentally” get stuck in a rut of just copying one of those examples you demonstrated. Ha.
Yooo I would absolutely adore overhead piano videos of your arrangements of BB tunes! You're knowledgable and have an excellent ear, so I know they'd be faithful to the record! You'd be doing us all a great service! If not, I need to sit down and learn "Here Today" to satisfy that craving! 😂
Great job. I would love to know the notes that are being played, especially with the right hand. I had the opportunity to work with Al Jardine (Best Summer Ever by Drifting Sand - look it up on RUclips), and I asked Al how he learned all those complex guitar chords that are part of The Beach Boys catalog, and he replied, “Carl showed me.” So I then asked how did Carl learn these chords, and Al said, “Brian would sit at a piano and direct Carl to play certain notes, and that’s how Carl learned.” Seems pretty obvious (duh), but I wonder how many guitar players have learned their craft directly from a piano player? Probably very few.
Great demonstration, thanks for sharing! I agree that Brian probably write his song with this bass note approach. I believe I read something about how Dennis learned to write songs from Brian; Little Bird was one of his first written songs and it definitely seems like Dennis wrote it with the same bass note approach. But then again, Brian cowrote the song and did most of the backup vocals (or at least it sounds like it), so it’s hard to say!
I thought Brian would write the whole song in his head?!? That’s what I’ve always heard from people but I’ve also heard that he would just sit at the piano and write it there
I really like your videos and i learn a lot. This is very interesting. I heard once in an interview that one of the beach boys gave , maybe dennis- where he said that the bass lines that brian wilson came up with and used were just mind blowing. In the movie about wilson there was a scene where carol kaye asks about the odd bass line brian chose , which ended up working out well. I wish i knew music as well as you. One comment though : The music you play is at a good volume but your voice was hard for my old ears to hear. But keep it up! And thank you!
Very cool. Playing around I noticed the beginning of The night was so young and Caroline no has just a different bass note... Then I remembered Brian Wilson composed Caroline no a half step down in key from the album version. Oh well.. appreciate the vid!
KInd of a dumb question but I'm not sure why it keeps slipping me by- can someone tell me the notes for the two chords that Joshilyn is playing for Let Him Run Wild?
Thank you! I would call myself a semi-professional musician. As for teaching, I am not any sort of official teacher, but I have been toying with getting a later-in-life PhD so I can teach music to college kids!
Wonderful as always, really enjoyed the singing, too. Do you have a paypal, since the gofundme seems to have problems with my german bank account? We musicians should help each other in difficult times like these! Wishing you all the best.
I don't really maintain my patreon anymore because nobody seemed that interested in it, but I do welcome any kind of small one-off donations one might like to make at my website: www.joshilyn.com Thank you!
Really enjoy you videos Joshilyn. Interesting AND helpful. I have a couple thoughts regarding your interest in academic opportunities. I'll connect with you over on LinkedIn.
I remember in a few things I've read over the years, that Brian said he would sit at the piano and just play what he called "feels"...
Your videos are so great.
This is so great!! Nobody is out there doing this, that I have seen. Brian Wilson's music from this period is so full of rich musical elements and it really deserves great analysis like this. I hope you have more along these lines.
This is totally magnificent…thank you for this breakdown!
Yes!! You know about that descending bass he loves to do. It's done so many times on SMiLE. It's all about the bass he had a huge grasp on the bass and how notes in the left hand can really work and hit so different against the right. Take songs like Fall Breaks/Back To Winter - that mathematical bass organ repeated riff is incredible. Or, Loopti Loop Flip Flop Flying in an Airplane has a descending rather dark tinge to that bass. I'm so happy others hear it and can understand what I've been hearing but never can articulate as well.
love your singing
Thanks for this! I’d love to hear your full piano cover of Here Today sometime. Hope one of your orchestration videos eventually covers The Little Girl I Once Knew as well. They’ve been great so far - especially the one for Please Let Me Wonder.
This is the kind of stuff I love to see but nobody does - I don’t think they know how to!
That was lovely and so informative. Thank you very much.
You're fantastic! Keep up the good work. Looking forward to more breakdown videos!
Hi Joshilyn, could you do a video on 'Martha My Dear' by the beatles. The piano is just beautiful in this song. There is counterpoint and beautiful harmony in there which sounds a little like Bach and Mozart in it's classical style composition. Everytime I hear it it really blows me away that McCartney wrote the entire song. There is recordings of him working the song out in the sessions tapes as he is talking to Martin about the scale he derived the song from.
Beautiful harmonies Joshilyn! Very interesting, you also have a nice voice.
Great analysis Joshilyn, keep up the good work!
And everthing starting with a I-IV change... nice observations, Joshilyn
This was a really enlightening video. I am not a keyboard player but when I would try to figure out something new on piano I was amazed at how even I could quickly find a couple of patterns that sounded very Bria Wilson. It was also very difficult not to “accidentally” get stuck in a rut of just copying one of those examples you demonstrated. Ha.
Michigan's awesome! I was born up here, I'm a Yooper as they call it.
Wonderful video, thank you!
OMG that was not a terrible example that was an amazing example! I had about a thousand ideas flash in my mind during that 12 seconds.
Great to have you back Joshilyn! Fascinating video!
Yooo I would absolutely adore overhead piano videos of your arrangements of BB tunes! You're knowledgable and have an excellent ear, so I know they'd be faithful to the record! You'd be doing us all a great service! If not, I need to sit down and learn "Here Today" to satisfy that craving! 😂
Great video, thanks :-)
Great job. I would love to know the notes that are being played, especially with the right hand.
I had the opportunity to work with Al Jardine (Best Summer Ever by Drifting Sand - look it up on RUclips), and I asked Al how he learned all those complex guitar chords that are part of The Beach Boys catalog, and he replied, “Carl showed me.” So I then asked how did Carl learn these chords, and Al said, “Brian would sit at a piano and direct Carl to play certain notes, and that’s how Carl learned.” Seems pretty obvious (duh), but I wonder how many guitar players have learned their craft directly from a piano player? Probably very few.
That’s a very realistic approach .
Awesome video. Thank you for putting this together.
Awesome! Glad to see your posts again!
these videos are great
Great demonstration, thanks for sharing! I agree that Brian probably write his song with this bass note approach. I believe I read something about how Dennis learned to write songs from Brian; Little Bird was one of his first written songs and it definitely seems like Dennis wrote it with the same bass note approach. But then again, Brian cowrote the song and did most of the backup vocals (or at least it sounds like it), so it’s hard to say!
I thought Brian would write the whole song in his head?!? That’s what I’ve always heard from people but I’ve also heard that he would just sit at the piano and write it there
I really like your videos and i learn a lot. This is very interesting. I heard once in an interview that one of the beach boys gave , maybe dennis- where he said that the bass lines that brian wilson came up with and used were just mind blowing. In the movie about wilson there was a scene where carol kaye asks about the odd bass line brian chose , which ended up working out well.
I wish i knew music as well as you.
One comment though :
The music you play is at a good volume but your voice was hard for my old ears to hear. But keep it up!
And thank you!
Very cool and insightful video. Thanks for taking the time.
Really quite brilliant! Thank you!
Very cool. Playing around I noticed the beginning of The night was so young and Caroline no has just a different bass note... Then I remembered Brian Wilson composed Caroline no a half step down in key from the album version. Oh well.. appreciate the vid!
Very nice, 🙏 thank you
Great video, I really enjoyed this.
i was hanging on for the Do You Like Worms 'chant bridge but it never came 😢
Missing you and hoping you post a new creation soon
great playing!
as you were riffing around Wouldn't it be nice my mind was wandering through Flim Flam Man by Laura Nyro
Heyyy! Michigan wooop wooop!!
What is he doing with the key changes in Cool Cool Water? Forgive my noobishness... is he moving through the circle of 4ths?
I’m hearing a bit of the opening chords of ‘Surf’s Up’
Very cool. Aren't You Glad is similar too right?
You break it down, girl.
The chorus from I Just Wasn't Made For These Times follows this progression i think
KInd of a dumb question but I'm not sure why it keeps slipping me by- can someone tell me the notes for the two chords that Joshilyn is playing for Let Him Run Wild?
First chord is F#m7 (on the right hand she plays C#-E-F#-A)
Second chord is Bm7 (B-D-F#-A)
@@paninoferretti
thank you so much!
Hi Joshilyn - you speak with so much knowledge - are you a professional musician or teacher?
Thank you! I would call myself a semi-professional musician. As for teaching, I am not any sort of official teacher, but I have been toying with getting a later-in-life PhD so I can teach music to college kids!
Brian said when he first heard the Four Freshman every pore on his body opened up.
Curious which Bach and Handel you had happening there.
I think it was probably the scores to the Brandenburg Concerti and to Messiah.
Ha baba baba bah ha baba bah baba babaaaahhhhh.
Surf’s Up?
Wonderful as always, really enjoyed the singing, too. Do you have a paypal, since the gofundme seems to have problems with my german bank account? We musicians should help each other in difficult times like these! Wishing you all the best.
I wish the piano inset was upside down
what is the name of this song? 👀 3:11
It's called "let him run wild" from the Summer Days and Summer Nights album.'' @Andrelino_D
@@joshilynhoisington thanks! :)
Do you have a Patreon account?
You are a sonic scientist
I don't really maintain my patreon anymore because nobody seemed that interested in it, but I do welcome any kind of small one-off donations one might like to make at my website: www.joshilyn.com Thank you!
great video, i would suggest flipping the piano footage 180 degrees.
doing it the video editor should work fine. shouldn't have to change camera angle.
Really enjoy you videos Joshilyn. Interesting AND helpful. I have a couple thoughts regarding your interest in academic opportunities. I'll connect with you over on LinkedIn.
I think if you went slower you could have also fit in surfs up... lovely video
Almost sounds like it could be from God Only Knows