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I arrange entire orchestras in my head, note by note. I can't see the sheet music -- I hear it. I'll teach you to arrange a song for voice and piano, then add horn lines, strings, backup vocals. Start simple. Build. Every arrangement is architecture.

I'll teach you to build a guitar from scratch. Cigar box, plywood, whatever you've got. Electronics, pickups, wiring. The rectangular guitar I played on stage? Built it in my garage. You can build yours in mine.

Built it myself. Cigar box body, broomstick neck, three strings. This is how I started. This is how rock started. You don't need a Gibson to make music. You need a box, a stick, and a beat.

A beat-up upright that sounds like Saturday night in Louisiana. Not a concert instrument. A PARTY instrument. Great Balls of Fire was never played on a Steinway. It was played on a piano like this, with the sustain pedal stuck and the lid wide open.

The Beatles named themselves after my band. That's because I wrote my own songs -- at a time when nobody did. I'll teach you song structure: verse, chorus, bridge. Three chords and the truth. Write something today that didn't exist yesterday.

The Strat. The guitar that defined rock songwriting. Three pickups, tremolo bar, the cleanest tone in rock. I played one on the Ed Sullivan Show. Plug it in, write your song, return it. Or keep writing -- that's what I would do.

I started singing gospel in church. I ended singing everything. I'll help you find your voice -- not my voice, YOUR voice. We work on breath control, vibrato, and the thing nobody teaches: vulnerability. If you're not scared when you sing, you're not singing hard enough.

Plug in, turn up, and play the blues. I took the Delta acoustic sound and wired it to an amplifier. The Rolling Stones named themselves after my song. Let me show you why.

One glass slide, one steel slide. The tools that turned Delta blues into electric Chicago blues. I'll show you open tuning, slide technique, and how to make a guitar cry. The blues isn't about being sad. It's about surviving.

The New Orleans piano style: rolling left hand, triplet feel, second-line rhythm. I'll teach you Blueberry Hill and Ain't That a Shame. Creole cooking playlist included because you can't play this music hungry.

I don't teach you to play pretty. I teach you to play LOUD. Standing up. Kicking the bench. One foot on the keys. The piano is not a delicate instrument -- it's a 900-pound percussion weapon and you need to HIT IT. A-WOP-BOP-A-LOO-BOP!

I invented the rock guitar riff. I'll teach you the first ten. By the end of the session you'll play Johnny B. Goode, Roll Over Beethoven, and Rock and Roll Music. These are the DNA of every rock song that followed.