I first heard Undertow in 2015 when Marty was doing his sessions here in Brazil. It was one of the last songs in the setlist and hearing it for the first time was magical: it felt like a journey through an atmosphere unlike anything I had ever experienced before. It was the song that completely grabbed my attention and drew me into Marty’s music and into Japan
I really like to think back to that time, when I would listen to Marty’s discography incessantly, searching for “that VERY Japanese ballad he played at the show”. The funniest thing is remembering how hard it was to play his music back then, his guitar techniques were things I had never encountered before, and I had no idea how I was supposed to learn them on my own.
Undertow was the first full Marty song I ever learned. I have no idea how long it took, I think it was months before I reached a decent level (though still very beginner). I spent months and months studying every detail of this song; it often felt like I wasn’t improving at all and that everything sounded awful… Until a moment came when the switch flipped (I don’t even know how to explain it) and everything finally started to flow without the effort it used to take. I’m really grateful to my past self for not giving up halfway through.
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