Music Career Guide

Music skills

The skills used for music are:

• Singing

• Instrumental Music

• Performance

• Music Production

Singing and Instrumental Music are used to decide the technical level while Performance effects the quality of live shows and Music Production the quality of recordings - provided the PC has the right tools to mix and produce music.

The important attributes for these skills are:

• Intelligence (singing, instrumental music, music production)

• Charisma (singing, performance)

• Agility (instrumental music)

• Perception (performance, music production)

• Spirit (music production)

The guitar teacher - Viktor Zenchuk

Viktor Zenchuk is a 30 something year old, married man. He gives guitar lessons at the Pavlovsk Community Center. His advertisement can be found there from September, so if the game starts early summer, he can't be found for the duration of the summer.

No, he can't be seduced. He is happily married.

The guitar store

The guitar store named ''Old Skull'' can be found in the Mall in St. Petersburg City Center.

This is where the first guitar can be bought, a fairly cheap, crappy one, but it works.

Later on more guitars, amplifiers and studio equipment can be bought there.

Buying more gear:

• Right now buying more gear has no effect on the game with the sole exception of the *Focusrite Scarlett Solo Studio* which allows the PC to record music on her computer and mix it.

• In the near future more expensive guitars will add an extra time that can be spent by playing music - better quality instruments generally are easier to play so the musician doesn't tire that fast.

Activities

Practice and performance time

Every day the PC can practice and perform music for a limited number of minutes. This goes up as they get better at their musical skills. Every day they can practice/perform equal to their ''Instrumental Music'' + ''Singing skill'' level.

For example, if their ''Instrumental Music'' is 42 and the ''Singing'' is 38 they can practice/perform 80 minutes every day.

After that they are just too tired to do more than noodling for fun.

Guitar lessons

After meeting ''Viktor Zenchuk'' and signing up, the player can take guitar lessons once a week. After every lesson the next day can be picked, or if the PC doesn't pick a day then can pick one later.

It's important that the lesson can be picked only for the following week.

Also, every lesson starts at 15:00, so if the PC goes to the Community Center after that they have missed the lesson. They have to arrive between 14:00 and 15:10 (latest).

Practicing

After the PC bought a guitar, they can practice at home. Practice depends on whether they are attending guitar lessons or not and if they are high enough level and have an internet subscription, they will use the internet too.

The latter is automatic, works within the normal practice action, but gives a bit of a bonus.

Practicing counts against the practice and performance time '''at half rate.''' It generally takes 30 minutes and lowers the available practice/performance time by 15 minutes.

Recording and uploading music

The PC can record music on their phone, or if they buy the ''Focusrite Scarlett Solo Studio'' from the music store they can record it on their computer and edit it.

Recording music on the phone takes 30 minutes, on the computer, with editing takes an hour and 30 minutes.

If they have internet, they can create a music account and they can upload the music there (think youtube, soundcloud, instagram).

Uploaded music, depending on the quality, will generate music fame for a couple weeks (calculated once a week, the generated fame slowly goes down as the video gets older).

Recording music counts against the practice and performance time as 30 minutes (the editing doesn't count).

Making money and building a career

Live streaming

The PC can live stream if they have internet. This doesn't require a computer, the phone works just as well. This can be done once a day, can last up to 60 minutes (it will last as long as the PC has remaining practice and performance time to a maximum of 60 minutes).

Live streaming is one way to make money, the amount depends on the PC's music fame and her looks - it's the internet, after all.

With a decent skill the PC can make a couple hundred rubles during a session, but it's random, between 0 and N.

Busking

Be a street musician!

Right now it's safe and convenient, because I didn't get around to implement things like damaging the instrument while fighting off a robber. Or losing it while running away from one.

It works similarly to the live streaming, the player can earn between 0 and a maximum amount that depends on her skills, looks, the location and the time. Weekends and after 5pm in St Petersburg are the most lucrative.

Del Parco - the first gigs

When the PC reaches a decent skill level, there is a random encounter with the manager of Del Parco cafe while she busks in Pavlovsk.

This leads to the very first real gig - she is asked to play at the cafe and actually gets paid for it.

The PC will have to rehearse her show and she can bomb it if she doesn't practice enough - which can lead to getting fired from this.

Same thing can happen if she doesn't show up, is late or drunk or high regularly. (Although these are not implemented yet.)