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What was the approach used to creating Good Vibrations?
Instead of working on whole songs with clear large-scale syntactical structures.
What alternative was used instead of working on a whole song?
Wilson limited himself to recording short interchangeable fragments (or "modules").
Through the method of tape splicing.
Had this approach ever been used before?
This was the same modular approach used during the sessions for Smile and Smiley Smile.
Is there anything interesting about the modular approach?
Production for "Good Vibrations" spanned more than a dozen recording sessions at four different Hollywood studios, at a time when.

Question: How long did the recording session take?
Self-contained rewrite: How long did the Good Vibrations recording session take?