Quitting Guitar and a Celebrity Boyfriend? Answering your Assumptions
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Just started my guitar journey at 71, I know I will not be around for a long time, but I am so willing to give it a go, Thank you Mary.
A long time? You've got another 30 years in you my man! What did you do in the first 30 years of your life? Aim to do as much as that in your next 30!!
@@Sif3r Very gracious of you.
Good luck to you man! It's a difficult road but an enjoyable one :)
Age is just a number..
Keep at it and have fun
Awesome.
Mary is a real person. How refreshing.
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She's a cartoon as well. Cartoons can do anything.
She's a hologram as well...
I thought she was a fembot. Mary spender please address this rumour.
Agreed
twit
3:32 I love the casual dropping of "...and his wife" as a not so subtle "no, he's not my celebrity boyfriend"
You remind me of someone...Mary
HI Mary🤩 A few weeks back, I ran across you colab with Rick Beato on "Operator" (Which, incidentally, destroyed my macho image and left me sobbing like a baby in front of my computer). This led me to your "Last Train Home" video. Never in my life has a tune been so stuck in my head. Absolutely loved it!
I enjoyed the Q&A. Besides being a fantastic musician, your honesty and sincerity with everything you do is very refreshing. Cheers!
Quite impressed by your natural authority to the camera : you say "focus" and it obeys (4:07) 😎
"me and the guitar are on a journey, and I'm never giving up"
Mary Spender - your words could have come from my very own heart. You just shot up a few rungs on my ladder of respect!
For real!
Defo..it’s all about enjoying what you/ we do...
A regular, nice decent person who happens to be talented, gifted and have a sense of humor! How refreshing and engaging!
Wow you are not sociable are you? There's billions like her.
@@chrisking6695 She does stand in stark contrast to people such as yourself who seem to go about in the world with a chip on their shoulder looking for confrontation and criticizing others! Actually I’m quit sociable and tend to like most people I interact with. The last part of my statement was meant with a bit of “ tongue in cheek” sarcasm such a pity you don’t seem capable of understanding.
Any time I see you and Adam Neely are together in a video, I can feel an amazing friendship between you both!
Mary, you are a true inspiration. Rick Beato mentioned you and a few other friends on his channel yesterday and I just had to pop in - it's been too long. 😊
@4:06 camera's out of focus and Mary says focus about the recorder and it "snaps to" focus briefly.
I was wondering if anyone else noticed!
Writing song’s & scripts is creative writing Mary, props to you on everything you create as a creative person.
Hi Mary Spender, I like listening to you answering questions from us.
I also wanted to just say thank you Mary, you are such a little ball of sunshine who brightens my day every day, whether that is motivating myself with your own motivation posts, one of your guitar or producing videos, I learn a lot as a complete guitar newbie4. And that british classiness just is the cherry on top for me.
I am so glad I stumbled upon your channel, Mary. You are a “ real”, down to earth person. I look forward to follow and listen to more of your music and off-topic conversations ✌️👏👍
Well played ! And yeah, would love to see more sights from your travels.
What a lovely candid video Mary. Enjoy your language journey; it's as deep as music and your guitar - never ending and always a pleasure to learn.
A delightful woman. Talented, articulate, humble and self-deprecating. I love her channel.
There have been times when I've practised more or practised less, but I've never considered quitting guitar. There are other instruments that are more classical or jazz oriented that I have drifted out of, but guitar lets me play the music I love the most, so I would never give it up. Thanks Mary, I really enjoyed this video.
Mary, Your information is accurate, well delivered, and I find your channel very entertaining. Ive been playing guitar for 48 years and teaching for 26. I am here merely to help set your mind at ease, and encourage you to continue on you path. Btw... don't read too many fan comments! They can corrupt your spirit unnecessarily! Way too much of that on this planet!...Thank you for the courage and tenacity it took to establish you channel, brand, and YT audience! Bravo! I also love the fine appreciation by Rick Beato! You Rock!
You come across as a intelligent well educated young lady with a nice personality, keep doing your thing and enjoy yourself.
Best wishes from an old guy who can't even play a comb !
7:44 Imagining Mary play Rocky theme with full horn section
Loved the friendly and fun responses. Rick Beato on his recent video nailed it when he spoke about you.
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Thanks for taking the time to make these videos, Mary. They are very entertaining.
That was so very enjoyable. How I admire your ability to set up a camera and speak to it without inhibition. Spain looks so warm and beautiful, thanks for letting me tag along.
Your “Sultans of Swing” cover with Josh Turner was EL PERFECTO!! Thank you! I also appreciate your respect for the English language and attempt to use proper grammar. I share it. Language is at best a limited and somewhat poor vessel for conveying our thoughts and feelings. Taking the trouble to develop a good vocabulary and decent command of the language is critical to our ability to think, understand the world around us, and communicate our insights. It deserves respect. As an American, I’m a bit unsure of the meaning of a “posh” way of speaking. However, I am aware of the many radically different accents in Britain; some quite difficult to understand. Yours is very nice. I’m from an old Tidewater Virginia family that predates our war for Independence. We have an accent here that still retains many flavors of old English so the way the Royals speak feels familiar to my ear. Linguistically I have no idea what that means except that perhaps being extremely traditional and somewhat cloistered from the general public they may have preserved a way of speaking from the times when England colonized America. English aside, I enjoy your music. Thank you. Good music is mana for the soul and making it is a worthy life’s endeavor. Well done!!
Here's another word for your vocabulary - manna. And I'm in agreement with all you said. Be well and Be Cool.
When I had a project studio in South Florida we were recording a song and used a quartet with people who played in local orchestras and did session work. In this case they quadrupled each instrument to give that BIG sound. So, we were waiting for the violist to arrive, but the two violinists and the cellist was there. One of the violinist talked about how he had switched to viola in the orchestra for a bit, thinking it would be nice to play the supporting role, but quickly discovered that the parts were not fun to play, too contained, and switched back.
You are an uplifting person,love your own songs. Hope I get to see you, Rena Del Cid, & Toni sometime in the near future!
That was fun, Mary. Hope you're enjoying yourself in Spain. Looks beautiful.
I lost track of this channel until Sir Beato reminded me. Thanks Rick! And keep rocking Mary!!! Guitar is one instrument that should never be quitted. (quat?)
I have to imagine a video like this is lots of fun to do, confirming or debunking what folks might think.
My next music project will be more vocal parts, and less loud electric guitar.
Much more like you have done, even though I am not blessed with the writing gene. (I am just a tavern band guitar player)
I find it way too easy to hide behind quads of 6L6's. Singing accompanied by Acoustic instruments is so much more from the heart.
Bravo Mary, you are a true inspiration. :)
Hi mary, just discovered you through chappers and andertons vids, you're a great musician and wear your heart on your sleeve, looking forward to watching more vids and ultimately your journey if you share that with us, keep on trucking mary.
4:06 out of focus.
4:07 says "focus", back in focus.
Proof that Mary is super human!
Came here to make the same comment!
this was fun Mary! you should do these like once a month
Thank you Mary for sharing the journey you are on. Big into spotify at the moment and enjoying your material which is a change from metal.
You are sharing interesting information for the benefit of others and you do so with an open heart and mind .
Bloody hell, Highbury Vaults brings back memories. Mostly slightly hazy ones frankly.
Amazing how the camera came into focus when you said "focus" at 4:07.
A wow Mary Spender moment.
Glad to see you are in Spain , greetings from Madrid!
Yea..liking the music and Rick is a big fan..❤️❤️ Enjoy the creative journey Mary.
"you can only play blues and small acoustic songs"... And this is me remembering the video that brought me to your channel, learning a Mastadon song on that orange amp.
I wanna know what a small acoustic song is. Say, like, an acoustic version of the Ramones' Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue?
Have you seen the metal cover she did of sultan's of swing 🔥
@@danashmore4765 with Leo at frog leap. Yes and it's fantastic :)
@@charlesmayberry2825 yeah, it's one I keep going back and listening to it over and over
Song writing is creative writing! You don't give yourself the credit you deserve.
Somethings wrong with that last sentence.
@@jamesdragonforce What's wrong with it? It's a perfectly good sentence.
@@JasperKloek I misspoke. Sorry.
@@jamesdragonforce You also missed an apostrophe, ironically.
Nice bit of pedantry!👍
Really enjoyed this. Getting to know you more! Loved you before. Even more now. Appreciate you and your talent so much.
Mary, just have a great time in Spain and most importantly, be inspired by the place, so that you may write/compose beautiful songs. Cheers!🍻😄
Watched the first couple minutes at most (will continue after commenting). Wanted to say this right away. From the videos of yours that I've watched (found you because of Rick Beato's channel), I can only say this; You are a wonderfully talented singer, instrumentalist, song writer, and self promoter. Any musician with a brain would be thrilled to jam or colaborate with you. On a separate note you are absolutely charming, lovely, and a breath of fresh air (wish I was 25 years younger....Turning 60. LOL).
i feel some of these questions are judgemental and you answer them so nicely
yes, like the ones about Mary's love life, as if a woman in her 30s needed to be in a relationship
welcome to the internet, where everyone feels their opinions and judgements should matter lol
4:07 "When they focus" and here the camera focuses back - Brilliant!
Mary, you are a blessing! And whoever your partner may be, celeb or not, s/he'd better be your biggest fan.
Venga María. Ánimo con el Castellano. Big “Hey!” to everybody in Salamanca. If you’re near Alba de Tormes, come and jam!!
Thanks to all who has liked and supported me this is a fantastic group and Mary is lucky to have such positive people around her. Again thanks to all.
Thanks Mary. I appreciate you sharing with me.
You just love music, and sharing it with us.
Here are my assumptions.....you are a good person, friend until the end, and fun to hang out with.
I've been wanting to see Salamanca for a long time, what's it like? I lived in Southern Spain for a long time but never went up north.
Thank you for share . Always happy. Nice video❤️👍
I like 👍 these kinds of videos where you speak to things as well as clarify or dispel misconceptions. 😊
That was quite interesting. Clearly some of the assumptions came from people who either haven't followed you for long or are the sort of people that have their own work to do still so their unexamined assumptions get projected onto you. In either case they were talking about someone that isn't you _clearly._ A couple got you quite well. They made me smile. Made you smile too:) You are an open book in this way. You don't in any way hide who you are, but some things you don't rub in the worlds face. If they're perceptive they can see for themselves who you are because you don't try to be a mystery. You do you boo and we'll all still love you:)
Very well said.
Can't disrespect the recorder when they appear in one of the best songs ever made. Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven features John Paul Jones playing 3 of them.
Great vid. Enjoyed hearing all the answers.
What a super fun format! Loved that video.
When I started following you I watched almost all your videos, including your Bristol week video.
I am not speculating about your boyfriend at all.
😅
Couldn’t Care less, I came for your guitar playing and singing!
Letting go of that ‘fierce’ side and listening more is the definition of maturity!
and then you get to the age where you realise you've gone 'full circle' and turned into Victor Meldrew ! :-)
You really are a talented person, musician, singer, has a beautiful voice singing, but you have no idea how I love to listen your voice when you're speaking, the calm, how it sounds is enjoyable to me and I love, really love the British accent.
What a nice video. I wish you well on your language journey. Studying languages has been one of the more enjoyable things I've done...it can be hard work, but fun if you let it. And the reward of being to talk to people in their native language is wonderful...and I am not a people person. ¡Buenas suerte!
I haven't paid much attention to a lot of spoken vids (yours made it through somehow this morning), you brought me some amount of joy on your response to a recorder not being a real musical instrument. Whatever makes noise is a musical instrument by basic definition... people and their choice of what to be a snob about runs the gamut between idiocy and horrific. Ok, that comment and the one about tea caught my attention (the one about rich background worked it's way in there. Everyone is rich, what we do with those riches and the imaginary place in society's clique is what creates the definition of our lives.)... funny what breaks through my morning guitar practice.
The assumptions people make about people they have never met and know in real life. Crazy stuff some of it. My Assumption/Opinion - You have a wonderful speaking and singing voice that is very pleasant to my ears. You are a excellent musician. Love the minimalist rig idea. I use a minimalist rig too.
You are such an interesting person to listen to and command my fullest attention . Music is food of life and I do love listening to your songs , just keep on doing you’re wonderful thing Mary . I feel blessed getting to know you . 🙏🙏🎶🎵🎶👌❤️
Wow! I’m impressed. Putting it out there. Good for you.
Mary sounds like the type of person that everyone would wanna be friends with
You're, I mean you are, so thoughtful to respond to all these assumptions and set the record straight. All in all interpretations seemed mostly innocuous. People hear what they want to hear and see what they want to see. So many filters! I didn't know about plain tea though. My business partner is in the UK. We'll be having a talk about that.
It’s been fun watching your videos. I found your channel this past January. I’ve enjoyed listening to your songs you have shared on your channel. I am curious if you ever used a prompt to write songs? Do you have a basic process or are more of “I need to be inspired to write?” I personally have not written any songs, but I been listening to a song writing podcast called “prompt queens” which has been inspiring and entertaining (Hope Dunbar and Emily Dunbar, they are sister in law) If you have some spare time I would enjoy hearing your thoughts about your process of writing?
Thanks, Tim
What a joy just watching your videos and listening!
"Only can play blues"... I think you did a number with Leo Machiar... Frog Leap Studios? Something like a cover on a Dire Strait song?
Yeah, "Sultans of Swing" was the one they covered. She did some guitar shredding. :)
Dear Ms. Spender, I have two issues if I may please. First, you mentioned wine and hangovers are a cause and effect problem you are having. My wife and I have a wine restaurant in Busan, South Korea and have found SULFATES are the reason. If possible, try an All Natural wine or a wine marked NO Sulfates or Sulfides. This may help with the hangover result.
Second, have you put any thought into a Christmas Single? Christmas is one of my favorite seasons and I am slowly working on recording Christmas songs for family and friends. It's right around the corner.
If you ever make it to Busan, contact me and I'll be happy to show you the city and our restaurant.
Sincerely,
Fred
This guys comment feels so genuine. What a cool community here!
Very intriguing video session re: people's guesses & impressions about you. Candor mixed with self-deprecating humour, slightly on the dry side...I enjoy your output on this channel and I also respect completely your drive to do your own thing and "paddle your own canoe" as it were. Dig in, enjoy life!!
I first came to your channel for the guitar related content. I soon found you to have an interesting and enjoyable personality. Now, I also enjoy your videos like this which deviate to a more personal level. The more I know about what drives a particular person, the better I understand them and, the better I relate to the more tutorial oriented videos for which I originally came. Did that make sense? Lol.
Healthy “aloneness” = such a blessing! Chao 🙏🏽
And, Please more existential!!
Alone but not lonely.
Auto-correct is a harsh mistress, it will sting you without warning. With regard to the video though, Mary inspires many of us by just being who she is and she is talented and motivated. Nothing but respect for her.
Really enjoyed this. I've been watching you for about a month. This helped me get to know you a little better.
Hey Mary, Nice video! I like the composition. The pop ups and the different backgrounds. Simple yet kept me engaged.
But I must admit what you had to say and your presence was very interesting.
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they are lmao
must be the time difference 😜
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@@MarySpender Why are recorders called that when they don't record? Why are some women called Viola but nobody's named Violin or Hurdy-Gurdy?
And you're making me nostalgic for Spain. My parents live there (near Torrevieja) and I haven't seen them for two years because of Covid and other stuff. 😢
@@ChrisPage68 yes, all hurdy gurdys are men, who sing apparently
How could Mary’s “celebrity boyfriend” be anybody other than John Mayer? Wasn’t that term coined to refer to him? 😉
I'm quite embarassed that I wrote cebrity. Damn these typos!
Weirdly Katie Perry described John Mayer as the perfect Boyfriend… bit odd.
@@lulabecker Rhymes with “inebriety,” from which we get “inebriated.” I got your meaning!
@@AngelicusImmortus Then again, Katy Perry and Russell Brand were married for 13 months, so maybe both their tastes in opposite-sex partners are a bit suspect, y’know? 🤔
This one was definitely fun for an old guy across the pond - more of the person behind the music.
I’ve been playing guitar since the late seventies and even in bands and for me it goes up and down with playing depending on what condition my fingers are because I have problems with arthritis, the guitar playing has helped me when I’m depressed or have some problems to solve and guitar playing gets me in good mood and calm when I’m upset, I play guitar, bass, keyboards, piano, harmonica , accordion just keep on playing it’s good for your health 😊✌️
To us Americans, your speaking voice is like music. I want to hear it all the time.
I want her to do a sleep story on the Calm app so bad
I'm Southeast Asian and of course i think the same, her voice is just that way, the voice really matches the accent and it's pleasing to hear. I think she knows this as well which is why she speaks a lot, which is great.
Same here. A simple acoustic setup is just perfect. So you can focus on the song and not the sound.
I always subscribed to that... But now I surround myself with new and ever-more complicated gear every month - it has assisted my songwriting hugely, seldom have I ever been as productive as I am now. There are no hard rules in this game!
Simplistic doesn't mean the same as Simple.
You come across as--because you are--a lovely person. A person that would become a good friend to have and know. Thanks for sharing your reactions.
The one thing sometimes it takes years but when you find one you keep them close people who are real just being theirselves congrats Mary you made my list
I'm now imaginging Mary doing power metal
She can shred!
Seeing is I was introduced to this channel by her collab with Leo Moracchioli I think her metal credentials are well established
Did you not see the video of her playing power metal on a banjo/guitar with Leo? You need to find that; it's one of his best videos.
Yes Mary can shred, and I can bet money she could djent if she proposed to
You had me at “there’s viola jokes for a reason” 😂
Keep going Mary, I really like your content.
Very interesting. As I've stated before I am new to your channel and so have learned a few things about you. A question that comes to mind is do you like playing others music as much or more so as writing your own? I don't know why I'm asking exactly except that I have found that earlier in my musical journey that I enjoyed playing other bands songs and learning them as well as I could. Today, however, I much rather like to come up with my own songs and spend far less time trying to learn others.
I think people make a lot of "interesting" assumptions about you simply based on your calm demeanor and soothing voice.
"I'm gonna offend a lot of viola players"
It only hurts because it's true :'(
Great .Love your music and accent ,nothing else matters,since it is what you love to do .
Fun..... thanks for sharing some of (the "strange") questions that you get with us. Interesting, what others may "assume" isn't it?
"You like beer"
Come on she's British! The video is called "anwsering your assumptions" not "stating the obvious"! :D
My Assumption: You are a kind hearted woman full of music that brings peace to the soul. You are empathetic and spiritual. Although a part of you waits for a worthy man you are just fine without one. Because your sense of "rightness" and harmony go to more deeper and satisfying places within. Shine on you crazy Diamond.
I got a kick out of the recorder question and you're right, of course it's a real instrument! Dating myself here but Grace Slick played it quite a bit (beautifully) on Jefferson Airplane's tour de force album "Surrealistic Pillow". Added quite a bit to a couple of songs.
thanks for the sharing Mary.