Lagos Life guitar guide: Music practice, Open Mic and Write a Banger

How to use this shared guide

Use this field report as a written source for a storyboard. It is not recorded footage; preserve separate purchase, action and result windows when planning your own demonstration.

Start with the guitar you own

The supplied 7 October 2026 records followed one existing character from Music 0 to 3 across separate actions. Practice Guitar was free on an owned Acoustic Guitar. Open Mic produced an observed ₦4,300 wallet increase; a later Write a Banger window produced ₦5,750 while a wish also completed. These are individual outcomes, not a fixed income table. All amounts here are fictional game currency.

Buying an Acoustic Guitar

At home, open Buy, then Skills, and inspect Acoustic Guitar. The tested item cost ₦4,200 and used a 1×1 space. Selecting it left the wallet unchanged; pressing Place deducted exactly ₦4,200.

Choose a position suitable for your own room. A blocked-furniture warning disappeared after the test item was moved, but actual access to the neighboring furniture was not tested. A focused category button alone did not prove the catalog had changed; check the products on screen.

The character had the active Buy something for the house wish. Placement completed that wish and added two stars before any practice; Music was still 0. This does not promise a reward for every purchase or for a character without that wish. If you already own a guitar, a second purchase is unnecessary for this tested practice route.

Practice Guitar: two separate observations

Leave Buy, select the guitar in the room and choose Practice Guitar. The menu labelled it Free, +Fun and +Music, with an 11-second duration label.

Starting experience was not fully measured. These two observations do not show that every practice grants a level or a fixed Fun increase. The displayed seconds were not independently timed.

• First practice: no wallet change, Music 0 to 1, Fun 95% to 100%. The purchase wish had already completed, and practice added no stars.
• A later single practice: no wallet change, Music 1 to 2, Fun 90% to 98%.

Open Mic at Music 2

In the later session, use Phone, Ride, then New Afrika Shrine to inspect the current journey. The tested Cab fare was ₦850 each way with a rush-hour warning. Check the final Go price before both trips; an earlier Shrine outing had different fares.

At the venue, select Band stage. With Music 2, Open Mic Performance was available and labelled Earns ₦, +Fun and +Music, with a 9-second duration label. The record did not test availability below Music 2, so level 2 is an observed starting condition rather than a proven minimum.

One completed performance increased the wallet by ₦4,300, Music from 2 to 3, and Fun from 97% to 100%. Other recorded skill levels, stars and wishes stayed unchanged. The amount came from the isolated before-and-after wallet readings; no separate income receipt was captured. The menu did not list an exact payment or a purchase price.

The trip's observed arithmetic was ₦4,300 received minus two ₦850 fares: a ₦2,600 net increase. The guitar was already owned, so that trip calculation excludes its earlier purchase. Other transport modes, repeated performances and a reliable hourly rate were not tested.

Write a Banger at Music 3

An earlier guitar menu showed Needs Music 3. In the newest record, the character already had Music 3 and the fresh menu offered Write a Banger with Earns ₦, +Fun and +Music. Its 17-second label was not a measured duration.

One writing action was completed at home, without new training, travel or purchases in the action window. The wallet increased by ₦5,750; the active Make ₦15,000 today wish was replaced and stars increased by three. There was no separate cash breakdown for the writing and wish outcomes.

Treat ₦5,750 as the net wallet increase in that combined window. It is not a verified pure songwriting fee, a fixed payout, or proof that this one action earned the wish's entire threshold. The income categories and accumulation period counted by the wish remain unknown. The menu lacked a purchase price, but that alone does not establish that the action is universally free.

Music stayed at level 3 while Fun went from 96% to 100%. An unchanged level does not prove zero experience gain; the progress amount was not measured. A one-point Hunger decrease occurred in the same window without separating time from action effects.

What survived Continue

The guitar purchase and first practice check retained the furniture, Music 1 and other recorded progress. The later Open Mic check retained the wallet, Music 3, the other skill levels and recorded Goals and career fields. The writing check retained its wallet, wishes, stars, skills and career fields too.

Those checks do not explain or erase the earlier ₦8,900 laptop-income rollback. No global save fix, cross-device guarantee or safe waiting interval was established. Record relevant differences if progress disappears, and avoid repeating purchases or income actions while their outcome is uncertain.

Plan with the limits in mind

Use the free checklist for the next action you want to inspect. Budget current travel costs separately from an observed payout. Do not turn this small sequence into a guaranteed guitar payback period or repeatable earning formula. This guide summarizes supplied playtest reports; the neighborhood illustration is decorative, not evidence from the game.