"Teardrop":
UPDATED 4/22: So I bought another instrument. I steal food to pay for these, I hope y'all realize that.
There are two things you should know: first, that playing a mandolin is hard. I thought it would be like guitar in a weird tuning but I didn't stop to consider the tiny baby frets or that you have to fret two strings instead of one. Basically what you need is very small, very strong fingers. Mine are neither.
The other thing is that I do realize this is basically the same idea as "Grace" (take a new instrument and try a bunch of styles on it). I liked to think I learnt my lessons, which is why this song is shorter and faster and has fewer boring parts (though I'll admit it maybe loses its way in the middle). Also I decided to add words. People like words. They give a song structure and allow something to sing along to. They make things more memorable. I don't like words , unless I'm typing them, but I'm learning to cope. At least this song only has 9 of them, mostly short ones. That's one of the cool things about folk music, it can be as long or short as it wants to be.
There are two things you should know: first, that playing a mandolin is hard. I thought it would be like guitar in a weird tuning but I didn't stop to consider the tiny baby frets or that you have to fret two strings instead of one. Basically what you need is very small, very strong fingers. Mine are neither.
The other thing is that I do realize this is basically the same idea as "Grace" (take a new instrument and try a bunch of styles on it). I liked to think I learnt my lessons, which is why this song is shorter and faster and has fewer boring parts (though I'll admit it maybe loses its way in the middle). Also I decided to add words. People like words. They give a song structure and allow something to sing along to. They make things more memorable. I don't like words , unless I'm typing them, but I'm learning to cope. At least this song only has 9 of them, mostly short ones. That's one of the cool things about folk music, it can be as long or short as it wants to be.
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