The book is intended for amateur musicians and collects under one cover the “young fighter’s course” of the musical front, touching on various aspects of show business, including those not directly related to performing skills. It will also be useful for academic musicians who decide to try themselves outside the walls of the Philharmonic. The structure of the book is built as a path from the starting situation in which a novice musician finds himself, to a mature team with established work processes. Particular emphasis is placed on the realities of small cities and small sites. The narrative focuses on aspects that are understandable to all old-timers of the music industry, and therefore are almost never systematically described anywhere. In many ways, the text is structured as a collection of errors and methods for correcting them, accumulated by the “collective mind” of the musical community of Russia and neighboring countries.