Denise RQ Thank you. Hello. Hello there, thank you very much. I'm going to start by telling you that I'm a musician, and I travel the world playing concerts, I play about 300 concerts a year that's how I make a living. It's also my calling in life, I'm one of the luckiest people on the planet. I get to make a living doing what I love, and people say,"Are you in the music business?" I call it "the happiness business." I play music and you get happy.That's what matters to me. So I was on a long flight in business class, I was hobnobbing at up in business class. A gentleman beside me starts talking to me, and he says, "So what do you do for a living?" And I said, "I'm a guitar player." And he looked at me like I was in the wrong place, I should have been downstairs. And he said, "You make a living playing the guitar? Wow! What band do you play with?" And I said, "I don't. I don't play with a band
It's true I was born into a band; very literally, I mean that literally. When I was born, my four older brotherswho were already playing music, knew that they needed a bass player (Laughter) to round out the family band. I was born into that role. As I'm older I'm looking back right now,now that I'm called a teacher. When I look back on that,and how I was taught, I realized that I wasn't really taught. Which is why I saythat music is a language; because if you thinkabout your first language, for me, and probablymost of us here might be English, so I'm just going to go with English. If you think about how you learned it,you realize you weren't taught it. People just spoke to you. But the coolest thingis where it gets interesting because you were allowed to speak back. If I take the music example, in most cases, our beginners are notallowed to play with the better people. You're stuck in the beginning class. You have to remain there a few years, until you