Heroes and Villains: I'm in Great Shape - The Beach Boys

Brian:

Let’s just try something.

It might be nice

Van:

One, two, three, four, five

Brian:

You know the note, ah… Hey, Van?

Van:

Yes?

Brian:

…Ab that you’re coming up with on?

…hit that much easier.

In fact,

play that an octave lower

Van:

That Bb gonna stick out too much?

Brian:

Wait, back to your regular register with both hands, and let’s go, Jay.

Here we go

Van:

One.

Two.

Three.

Four.

Five

Van:

Sorry about that there

Brian:

Little lighter on the hands, not quite so hard

Van:

One, two, three, four, five…

Brian:

Alright, fine.

Okay, let me overdub to that.

Here it goes

Van:

One, two, three, four, five…

Brian:

The overtones on that celeste just- just- are just so uncool, I don’t know…

Dorothy Victor:

One, two, three, four, five…

Brian:

Can it- you couldn’t do it any faster than that, could ya?

Dorothy Victor:

Ah, yeah.

I will eventually, let me just uh… Alright, I’ll play it- We’ll do

it faster this time…

Brian:

Here we go

Van:

One, two, three, four, five…

Brian:

It has to be faster.

It’s gotta be: «two-three.

One, two-three.

One, two-three.

One, two-three»

Van:

One, two, three, four, five, six…

Brian:

Okay, uh, the third note in the- in the chord, third- second from the top:

not quite loud enough.

Van, keep conducting all the way through.

Will ya, please?

Van:

One.

Two.

One, two, three, four, five…

Brian:

Okay.

Come on in