Another great tip for surf-rock is to play melodies in open position. Combined with the above gear and effects, playing chords, riffs and licks in open position lets those single-coil pickups twang!

However, when Satch decided to shake things up one Halloween by re-emerging for his customary encore to play Surfing with the Alien, his antics came at a cost: he lost total control over his ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Band Originale filmed professional surfers Axi Munian and Jerome Sahyoun surfing with LED surfboards and wetsuits on a dark February evening off the Moroccan coast.