Playing : your inalienable right to make music -- Breathing and other essentials -- Listening : big ears are pretty -- Stage fright -- Jumping in the deep end -- Keeping the faith -- Just a white boy lost in the blues -- Practice works -- Making time to play -- Melody & harmony : what makes a song a song? -- We got rhythm -- Improvisation : how to fake it so you make it -- Oops! the best thing about mistakes -- Plays well with others -- Failure is an option -- Sweet inspiration -- Harmetiquette -- Dancing the two step with two left feet.