Technique gets you the notes; style sells the song. Kaelin teaches the licks, rhythm and extreme sounds that stop a pop singer from being boring.

Once a singer has the notes, what do they do with them? Here Kaelin shifts from technique to pop artistry. You'll run a live drum-circle exercise on subdividing the beat, learn why he puts roughly 96% of pop and gospel licks inside the pentatonic scale, and watch him build improvised licks with volunteers over a simple chord loop. He demonstrates the extreme colors — airy, nasty, woofy, fry and overdrive — and shows how to break a Christina Aguilera or Jessie J run down with slow-down software until it is singable. It closes with a straight "Silent Night" rebuilt into something nobody would call boring.