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That was awesome Mary :)

Honestly better than 99% of material on the radio

And she definitely sings better than Roomie 😂😂

This was wildly impressive 👊🏼👊🏾

This reminded me of one I wrote roughly a zillion years ago. My grandmother had died and I started thinking how I missed her and how I wished I could have had just a few more minutes with her. That turned into a hook of 'Just a few minutes more'. I gave it three verses where the character speaking wished for a little more time. One was a kid who didn't want to get out of a warm bed to go to school. One was a soldier who didn't want to leave his family to go back to his duty. And the third was being by Granny's bedside right after she'd passed. Each asked for more time. But it was a more serious request in each successive verse.

this is turning into a really interesting youtube challenge for every musician! PS Rob had a camera guy near him who talked to him. you were by yourself!

I'm gonna try something very similar, which I think might be useful to some people. 1) Set a timer for 1 hour 2) Write as much as possible in that 1 hour 3) Take a break after that 1 hour (i.e. go for a walk; read a book; have a cup of coffee; etc.) 4) Eventually, come back to the song later with a refreshed/clear mind (this is optional, but could be a good idea) This might be good for people who usually try to write or finish songs in one sitting. (I usually try to write songs in one sitting with the aim/intention to finish them, so I'm giving myself something new to try, hopefully it will be helpful to someone else as well)

This is my first time on your channel. I came over from Frog Leap Studios where you did Sultans of Swing. Both that piece and this song in a hour were fantastic. I'm a fan now!

As a session guitarist it is hard enough coming up with memorable parts in an hour. I think you killed it.

Nice to see your creative process in action. Felt a bit sorry when you seemed to panic a bit, but you ended up a with great song! Bit more refined than Rob's, even. Though I kinda missed a "That's what I'm talking about, Bill" in the lyrics ;)

You said we might be bored...not once! I just watched in amazement, the whole time! You've definitely got talent! Such a beautiful voice too! That's the thing I've struggled with my whole life...vocals! I can figure out an instrument, given time. But the vocals...that's the tough part for me! Thanks for such a cool video. I really enjoyed it, and the song was pretty good for only taking 1 hour to make! Awesome job!👍😎🎸🎶

This is probably the coolest vibe of all of the 1-hour songs I've seen so far

The " Creative Process " , Is facinating, ....and different for nearly everyone.

Mary... you are one of the best, SUPER, creative, open, gutsy, informative, talented, entertaining S/S Artists around. And just a joy to watch. Thank you so much for sharing some of your creative process's, and all with such grace and humor to boot!

I once almost wrote a song in 14 seconds. It was sped up, though. And it sucked. It was about designing chess pieces that fish in spacesuits could manipulate with chopsticks in an average living room. My mate had a circa 1966 spacesuit, and I was taking care of his fish while he was away. During the creative process, I forgot to write the song. The whole thing turned out rather badly, but the concept is solid. To this day, one of his fish manipulates space suits in repeated patterns with chopsticks at 21 degrees Celsius.

Love it. I have all the gear and quite a bit of talent but there’s no way I could do this in an hour !!! I love how the lyrics reflect her panic with writing the song and it’s clever how she’s turned it into a break up song. Go girl🎸🎤🎶😎

Excellent work Mary! Reminds me of a binge I went on a couple years back where I made myself write, record, and mix an album in 5 days. It's really incredible some of the stuff you can come up with under tight time constraints. Loved the song and especially that solo!

Out of all the 1 hour songs I heard, I think this one was the most interesting. Really well done Mary

Figuring out your vocal melodies while doing the guitar part is genius, Rob should've done that. It saved you loaaaads of time ! Good job

Part of the challenge should have been to use the word Roomie more than 5 times in the lyrics.

Found your channel because of this. Your voice is angelic, your playing beautiful, and your composition was better then what I could write given 6 months! (give me seven, though... XD) Point is, I dig.

Tastefully done. Had I only listened to the final track instead of watching, I wouldn't have known this was created in an hour. Well done, Mary.

Wonderful result and I love that the lyrics are also time related. :)

An interesting point here is that setting yourself this challenge could be agreat way to bypass writer's block. We've all had it - sit down, switch on, and..... nope. Now tell yourself that you HAVE to write a song in an hour, and I'll bet you will achieve it. Doesn't matter if you go back later and spend another 40 hours "perfecting" it, the idea is the seed. Nicely done m'lady! :O)

God, you have one of the most beautiful voices I've ever heard in my entire life. & youre just so overall musically talented. My mind is absolutely blown. Why tf am I just now hearing about you?! Where have you been all my life?!!? Definitely binge watching your channel tonight lol.

Wow! And I thought I was a musician... boy, was I wrong! I wish I was half as talented as you are. Thank you for creating this channel and for sharing your knowledge, people like you are a true inspiration for other musicians. Thank you Mary

You did a heck of a job Mary! Well done. Singing about stuff around is always the best solution when you are short on time.

Awe...some... you have to thank Leo for introducing you to the world. You rock. Keep it up you beautiful musician.

You are a wonderful musician and I loved to see how you developed your idea to a complete song

Mary: I want to write a song Others: Do you have a band? Mary: I AM the band.

Actually, a lot of songs are done under some degree of pressure and this is fabulous to watch and hear!

Love the vibe of this song!! So much creativity in just 1 hour :) your voice is absolutely stunning too!

My fav so far! It's not about the hour it took to write a song. It's about the thousands of hours it took to be able to do it in an hour.

Edit: You really did a great job with that 'basic track'. One hour really is not much time to write, compose, record and mix up a whole song so what you created in these few minutes is amazing. And your voice is adorable ;)

I'm thoroughly enjoying this Mary. Your voice is EPIC and that melody so... jazzy??? As a fellow songwriter, I totally get the panic 😁😁😂😂😉😉. Great job Mary!!!

Choosday Choosday Choosday Choosday Tawks!

This was awesome! I think this is the type of challenge all of us need in our life. Sometimes having too much time ruins the creative process.

A song written in an hour with lyrics about leaving in an hour, well played!

That was so Cool Mary! Awesome Triumph! and the Electric part with Trem really sounded perfect with that! _ Always Your Spirit is 'Priceless!'🎼

And it actually works! I love the mellow feel.

Definitely earned my subscription with that! Wow! You’re awesome! Thank Pete and Rob for sending me here.

That is actually the best way to see you for the first time!!!! As gifted as talented you are! Maybe you should try it again on live so people can give you lyrics ^^

I could listen to you hum, doo-wop, and la la all day long. You don't need and stinken' lyrics with your voice.

Honestly the best 1 hr song out of all of them! Great job

Congratulations Mary!!👏🎶🎸💜 this is amazing, beautiful song.

Wow! I just discovered you and your channel (and your dark pal over in Screamo-land) and can't wait to hear more! I love this song you wrote in just an hour. Its stuck in my head, in a very good way.

Amazing production value in such short time - guitar solo, harmonies - and a nice melody! The use of the whammy bar on that St Vincent too -- very cool.

Love this. Not bored at all by watching the process. Song's quite good as well

Watching someone else go thru what many of us go thru constantly is way cool. I’m not the only one ☝️. Grace and peace be with u

Mary, you are so, so talented. You are also bright, bubbly, gorgeous and have charisma in spades. If you don’t end up a household name there’s no justice in this world. Go girl!

You have incredible charm.

Just impressive. In an hour is impossible to do everything and you guys manage to record an entire song. Awesome...

Mary, from Chicago here. I first heard of you on Guitareo, and have been a fan ever since. Mary, I love you 😍❤🎸; you are beautiful, talented and very down to earth, which is very refreshing! All the best from the Chicagoland area!

It's amazing how it all comes together into something beautiful, far more than the sum of the parts. I like this.

Your best song? No. Impressive? Absolutely!!👍🏻 Creating under the gun is probably one of the hardest thing an artist can do. Well done Miss. Spender. Just love watching you.

My favorite youtuber.... you're smart and awesome. You make amazing music. Nuff said.

I watched a lot of people do this challenge. It just hit me, the easiest song to produce would have been a 1950's country waltz or two step. That's the whole thing behind Nashville Numbering and mass producing music. Liked your song. Hope you keep playing with the concept.

Very cool Mary!!!! So you could do 5 full albums in a year!!! Keep up the great work.

Honestly fair play for making this in an hour it’s a pretty good song!

Not only talented your drop dead gorgeous!

Nice to see a talented female musician like yourself. Song was great, especially for only an hour’s work. I’ll be checking out more of your music for sure!

It's so fun to see the behind the scene and struggle of making a song (as someone that gone through it)

From jack coyne -> colin & samir -> i love where i am . thank you

Good job Mary.... sounds amazing when you hear it all coming together at the end.... well done

I am so in love Bit now that I got that out lol I got here from Leo's channel and so glad I did. Everyone of the people I have witnessed through all of this is so damn talented and so fun that I actually hate myself for being so lame. Thank you so much for being such awesome human beings

Haha love the challenge! And I enjoyed listening to the outcome! Better than a whole lotta popular stuff out there nowadays.

....and the wind cries........Mary. No,....the wind screams..........MARY! , Truly wonderful!

that was crazy 'but there's something about Mary and I like it!🇨🇦

you are very talented and a great singer I saw the video you made with frogleap studio and fell in love with it that video is what gives me the push to do music these challenges there not only for the KZfaq viewers but also to make you better as a musician

Excellent songwriting and performance. That was quite a feat!

I’m loving you! Thanks Reina delCid!!!

you totally inspired me to do this. I haven't written or even really played in almost 5 years!! but after watching your video, I dusted off my guitars and started writing.

I love the way you say "Tuesday talks" and great video by the way

It's like you knew that my situation changed for the worse and you wrote this to help me get through it. Great job for so little time. Keep doing what your doing

As A long time singer/songwriter/guitarist, I have to say I'm mightily impressed. Even if I had the recording gear, and the software (not to mention the understanding of said software), I don't think I could ever achieve this.

the blues/soul in your voice is insane!!!!

This Is the best song i've ever heard of any other video about 60 minutes song.

I love that you wrote a song about not having time to write a song, because that's exactly what I would have done!

I like the idea of giving yourself the deadline, amazing how motivating this can be! Very interesting indeed!

Looking at the end product of your work, you look so calm playing and singing, but underneath you are rushing about trying to get things done. Mary, you are an extremely talented young lady, and what you produced was a beautiful song, I love your music, and this is no exception, looking forward to seeing you in Manchester next month...

Awesome! Having written and recorded myself I know how what a challenge this is. And my 8 year old daughter is now a fan as well. Hope you have a good gig tonight in Brizzle, and we will get to see you play one day.

best 1 hour song i've heared so fam. Thumps up

Also better than singing about being better than roomie

Don't stress it out👍 you are doin great👍

Just wow

A cool funky bass line added to this with a nice groove should be in the future, to add to this song.

that chorus idea is dope, also the bossa rhythm at 3:00

That was beatiful 🎧🎶🎸 your voice is awesome.

That was definitely not boring! Very entertaining

Found you via Leo... couldn't be happier. Keep the awesome going!

So I just saw you for the first time on the Sultans of Swing video by Leo and I came right to your page and this video is my real first impression of you and I am beyond impressed and I love this song. I can not wait to check out the rest of your art.

Awesome stuff! I'm seeing more and more people take on this challenge. Might try it myself xD

Shows the discipline of keeping it simple can often be very effective. I think sometimes you can overthink things in songwriting. That said some ideas are just so good you have to take time to get them right. Really enjoyed this.

That turned out really well! Also, nice to see a fellow Logic user.

1 hour... that's incredible! I enjoyed watching this and I admire your gift of song! Imagine what you could do in 2 hours..!

Well done Mary, you did it, and it is good.

Wow! I like so much your "60 minutes song" challenge Mary!

Well Mary, I really enjoyed this. I love your authenticity. It really is inspiring. Thank you for sharing the challenge! Great fun and wow! What a lovely voice you have?!

Wow. Your awesome. Knockout all the way around. I just had to say that