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Unit 1 · Lesson 1.7 · Paying Your Players · about 20 minutes

How much to pay band members, and keep the gig yours

Hire them, pay them, keep the gig yours. Lesson 1.7, Paying Your Players, is a game you play as your own act, for solo acts, duos and bandleaders.

Lesson 1.7 · about 20 minutes

Paying Your Players

Hire them, pay them, keep the gig yours.

Hire them, pay them, keep the gig yours. The money is in your hand at 11:40 PM. Know whose it is before you get there.

Skill: Pay Your Players
Paying players game, Lesson 1.7 Paying Your Players: the first call on a phone screen, a wedding books Your Act for June: $1,200, paid at the end of the night. You'll rent a...
The first call, as you see it in the game. Your act's name goes where it says Your Act.
Your first call
A wedding books Your Act for June: $1,200, paid at the end of the night. You'll rent a better PA for it: $150. It's your first gig with a hired player: Levi. Levi texts: "What's the deal on this one?"
  • A"Even cut. Whatever the gig pays, we split it down the middle."
  • B"Don't worry, I'll take care of you. Depends how the night goes."
  • C"$250 flat, cash, paid that night. Date, dress and set list coming."

Every option is something a working player really does. Which one would you pick? The game shows you what each one costs or earns.

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What you walk away with

Everything in the game is made up: the venues, the people, the money. General information, not financial, legal or tax advice.

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