The Beach Boys Greatest Hits arranged by Michael Brown

Young Concert Band - Grade 3
Originally thought of as producing only lightweight “surf” music, the Beach Boys went on to become one of the most influential bands of the 1960s with their own distinct and innovative sound. This well-paced medley of tuneful hits includes California Girls, Good Vibrations, Surfer Girl, Wouldn't It Be Nice? and I Get Around.
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[FalloutoftheDisco]

0:00 - start
0:29 - 10 - "I Get Around"
0:36 - 14
0:56 - 26
1:08- 34 - "California Girls"
1:29 - 44
1:47 - 52
2:03 - 60
2:20 - 68 - "Surfer Girl"
2:34 - 72
2:57 - 78 - "Wouldn't It Be Nice"
3:05 - 82
3:20 - 90
3:35 - 98
3:51 - 106
3:58 - 110
4:01 - 112 - "Good Vibrations"
4:15 - 120
4:28 - 128
4:41 - 136
4:48 - 140
5:01 - 148
5:07 - 152
5:15 - 156
Like if this helps and good luck to all of you doing this for band!

[Mark-lnhj]

I'm playing electric bass on this with a local retirement community that has a concert band, both my parents live there and are in the band. I have the music, still this video has been very helpful to play along with in preparation since I won't be able to practice with the band much before the concert later this summer.

[jiawatts]

oof i’m playing this in my band and it’s literally the best piece i’ve ever played

[Brokenlegdude]

I haven't band with a band since high school. I didn't join band the one year I went to college. but I think it would be cool if myself and bunch of other musicians from youtube could all do this arrangement. along with doing just a bunch of the different band arrangements for different songs on youtube.

[blongus]

0 dislikes, the world makes sense for once

[christoferdrewrocks]

playing this for a spring concert in band :p

[pendancer]

Are advanced played this for our November concert (which is the first concert of the year) last year.

[BariSaxGuy]

As a saxophonist, Michael Brown is a frustrating arranger. He constantly jumps the saxes all over, and specifically the bari sax (look at the first couple of measures. It is like the sax parts are an after-thought. As a player (bari sax player specifically), you need to know your ensemble voice and how you fit into the overall ensemble sound. He sometimes gives you bass parts, but then 4 measures later, it is now the 2nd trombone part, or sometimes it's a mixture of random notes that no one else plays. Very hard to play "ensemble-like" when you keep changing the role of the instrument. The bari sax doesn't always need to follow the tuba, but at least be consistent, please.

[green-cl]

I rlly want to play this sometime but the band I'm joining is slightly above grade 4 so probably not going to play this :/

[robertbrown]

gonna get tickets for me son, brian please make it so :)))

[joeplavin]

As a huge beach boys fan it was pretty easy to tell when there were some changes made. I understand most of them were for obvious reasons in relation to arranging five pieces into one melody; but some of the choices made were just dumb. For example, why didn't the trombones gliss at 46 going into 47, it's very legato in the song. Also at 120, why did you give the melody to the trumpet and not the oboe, this arrangement already has plenty of brass. Also the bassoon and for that matter most of the less than 4 to a part instruments are really under-utilized, I understand that this could be because many bands may not have more "obscure" instruments and the arranger did not wish to lose key parts of the melody, but bassoons should not just play the bassline, no one can hear them and they have a beautiful tenor range as well.