In the middle of the hearing, Ed Sheeran played the song with his guitar.

In a crowded room New York court, Ed Sheeran picked up his guitar On Thursday and A Melody And that gets him into trouble Copyright Dispute On the noble soul Marvin Gaye “Let’s Get It” Before the eyes of the only audience that matters: a jury.

As Sheeran testified for an hour in Manhattan federal court, his attorney, Ilene FarkasHe pressed him to tell how he came to write “Thinking Out Loud” A decade ago.

He leaned back, grabbed his guitar from a rack behind the stage, and explained it Writing a song came naturally to him. He said he used his own acoustic version to create songs very quickly Nine in a day. Even as late as last weekend, Sheeran said he had composed music 10 songs.

He later joined Judge Louis L. Stanton sang a few words of the keynote, drawing smiles from some in the audience in the courtroom.

“I sing loud”He sang loud enough to be heard on the court without raising the decibels.

When he finished singing the words, he said, “And then the words fall out,” as he tried to teach the jury how he made the music. He said he collaborated on the song with a co-writer, Amy Wadgewho wrote the opening chords.

Although he has performed with the world’s greatest artists and regularly attends music award ceremonies at the age of 32, he leans his chair towards the jury and says from the stage: “I’m not the most talented guitarist in the world”.

As he slapped his hand against Dice’s microphone, he said a quick “sorry.”

According to the estate of Ed Townsend, Kay’s co-writer on “Let’s Get It On” started the song. “Striking Similarities” and “The Most Common Elements” from 1973 with Gaye’s legendary musical treasure trove.

“When Your Legs Don’t Work Like They Used To” (When your legs don’t work like they used to), she sang passionately, as if going deeper into the song. Then, after a few bars, he shoved the guitar back into the closet behind him as his lawyer told the judge it was an appropriate place to adjourn the week’s session.

Two days ago, he was called to testify by plaintiffs’ attorneys and was determined to tell jurors that he and Wadge came up with the song without copying anyone else’s music.

He added that a video showing him alternating between “Thinking Out Loud” and “Let’s Get It On” on stage was not uncommon. “Very easy to combine songs” They are in the same tone.

On Thursday, his attorney asked Sheeran how he became interested in music after joining the church choir with his mother when he was 4 years old.

Sheeran was self-deprecating as he told his story: “I can’t read music. I have no classical training in anything”.

He said he dropped out at 17 so he could play three times a night, anywhere from bingo halls to restaurants to “nobody anywhere.”

Within a decade, he was already performing with some of the biggest names in music Taylor Swift Goes Through Two Rolling Stones, 50 Cent, or Eric Clapton.

It didn’t take long for him to write eight or nine songs a day: “When inspiration hits, you get excited and it comes out.”

At the end of his testimony, Sheeran was asked by his attorney if an expert called by the plaintiffs would try to show how the chords in “Thinking Out Loud” resembled those in “Let’s Get It On.”

“He said that because it helps his case,” Sheeran said.

The trial resumes on Monday.

(With information from AP)

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