Rock Piano Classics: The Beach Boys
In this vintage Homespun video series, you’ll learn to play the piano parts of some of the greatest pop songs of all time, while discovering their secrets and why they still work so well today.
Videos
• California Girls (08:03) - In this tutorial, touring keyboardist for the Beach Boys Billy Hinsche teaches the melodies and chord structures of some of their best known tunes starting with California Girl.
• Kokomo (05:27) - Next, Billy shows us the simply arranged song of Kokomo in the key of C.
• In My Room (05:21) - Here we are shown In My Room in the key of B and how to utilize the arpeggio.
• Little Deuce Coupe (04:48) - In this video, we move on to the slightly more difficult Little Deuce Coupe in the key of A flat.
• Help Me Rhonda (08:10) - Billy goes over the catchy hit Help Me Rhonda.
• God Only Knows (07:29) - This is Billy's favorite song to play on stage and some of the more difficult material covered.
• Wouldn't It Be Nice (08:27) - Another song off Pet Sounds, Billy shows us Wouldn't It Be Nice and it's interesting chord structures.
• Good Vibrations (13:28) - We are shown one of their number 1 hits, Good Vibrations.
• Forever (10:00) - The final song shown, Forever, was co-written by Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson.