Uploaded March 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Tim Smolens analyzes the chord progression, modulations, and songwriting devices of this deceptively simple early Beach Boys surf song. Tim shows the viewer how to apply those techniques to their own original music bu isolating and committing to memory the songwriting devices at play.

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