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Can you talk me through it? Because they're all guitarists in their own right and they've all been in my position.

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And I'm calling up some friends being like, I have no idea how to even approach learning something like this. And I learnt things to serve the purpose of songwriting, which maybe I'm having to like backtrack a little bit now and go back to basics.Įvery so often, I have a style that suits my needs, but there are some sort of like fundamental things that I'm having to, like, reteach myself. I think it's because I was already is being a bit lazy and, you know, just getting by. My parents excuse was that I was already not practicing all my other instruments, so there was no way they were going to give me lessons. Were you also taking lessons for the guitar as well while you were learning the classical stuff? But just one more thing about the origin of your guitar. I definitely want to get into all of that as well. It's all these other things that kind of come into play. I've had an interesting musical journey that hasn't just revolved around making music. And I'm pretty happy with the way things turned out. So now I probably would have done a more popular music orientated course then. And I really just wanted to sit and play guitar all day. It was just it was pretty academic and pretty hardcore. I enjoyed every second of Bristol University. So, you know, I learned other skillsets and I got the degree that my parents wanted me to get.

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It's very difficult to actually be able to do that full time for a living. It just took a really long time to be able to do it professionally, both being a classical musician professionally and then being a blues singer-songwriter. So yeah, songwriting didn't come until 15.

Every time, you know, you had an argument with your parents and just came up and cranked up the guitar. Guitar was my afterschool escapism.Īnd yeah, it was a way for a teenager to express themselves with a distorted guitar. Being in choirs, then doing all my grades. But I mean, that was intense, and I struggled. Although I ended up playing bass in a jazz band because I had a bit of guitar knowledge. I had to do certain amount of hours in terms extra music after school, because I had a music scholarship and my secondary school and guitar didn't really fit into that. If you're saying you were already playing a guitar, how did that fit together? Were they two totally separate worlds? Was it a single music world or was it: This is my viola and classical school world and guitar is something totally different? My main instruments were singing and viola. You took classical music up till university.

Yeah, I studied it up until university, but I was playing guitar from age 12.

You're known for a bluesy fingerstyle, but you actually started out playing classical music – is that right? You're a singer songwriter and a guitarist. Marc Young: Mary, thanks so much for joining me today. The interview was recorded with two SM7B microphones. In the podcast, Mary explains how she build her massively successful YouTube channel, how musicians can get the most out of social media these days and why she recently did a 24-hour live streaming event. For the latest episode of Signal Path, Marc Young spoke with Mary Spender, an English singer-songwriter with a bluesy guitar style and avid online following.