Read your local music scene like a business

The five forces in your town, and your honest strengths and gaps. Lesson 4.4, Read Your Scene, is a game you play as your own act, for solo acts, duos and bandleaders.

Lesson 4.4 · about 20 minutes

Read Your Scene

The five forces in your town, and your honest strengths and gaps.

A cheaper act shows up. A bar cuts Mondays. Before you move, read the whole town.

Skill: Read Your Scene

Local scene game, Lesson 4.4 Read Your Scene: the first call on a phone screen, a bar town with a lot of acts and fewer nights. The clock is running. Read the clues you... — The first call, as you see it in the game. Your act's name goes where it says Your Act.

How it opens

A bar town with a lot of acts and fewer nights. The clock is running. Read the clues you need, set the five dials, lock it.

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What you walk away with

The skill: Read Your Scene.
Your after-lesson checklist: clear steps and "say it like this" scripts, with your act's name on it. Print it or save it as a PDF.
About 20 minutes, on your phone or laptop. Replay it until you hit the top rank.

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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Part of Unit 4: Run It Like a Leader in the Thriving Musicians course. Pick your free lesson.

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Read Your Scene

What you walk away with

Unit 4 · Run It Like a Leader

Run the act, not just the set.

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