Lionel Richie

And I can see their frustration, you know.

Lionel, I can't believe, it's amazing how you went to that augmented 7th with a diminished 9th with a raised 18th with a 45th.

And I'm sitting there going, I can't read music.

And he goes, and the way you did that modulation from... And I said, I can't read music.

And he kept saying, and the way you turned that vocal around, it came back down to that...

augmented seventh over and raised ninth.

And I kept saying, I can't read music.

So I try to tell them, listen, forget the notes.

Can the crowd sing your song?

If they can't sing your song, dazzling them with notes is not going to get it.

That's the first thing.

That's for the guys who can read and write and do the full Juilliard and Berklee and killer.

That's for them.

Now,

For the kids who are just brilliant, by the way, and they know their music, but they don't know how to receive.

My answer now is now that you know the technical, forget it.

Now, tell me what you're feeling.

Now play that.

And instead of playing 15 chords, play one and hum as much as you can holding that one chord.

And then when you get tired of putting everything in that one chord, that's the second chord coming up.