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From the Ted Talk by Elizabeth Cawein: How to build a thriving music scene in your city
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Next, we'll need to identify our challenges. Now, it's important to know that, for the most part, this won't be just the opposite of step one. We won't gain a whole lot by ______ thinking about what's missing from our map. Instead, we need to approach this more ____________. There are lots of music ______ on our map. Awesome. But are they __________? Do we have a venue ______, which just means, can an artist starting out at a coffee house open mic see a clear path for how they'll grow from that 25-seat room to a hundred-seat room and so on? Or are we expecting them to go from a coffeehouse to a coliseum?
Solution
- struggling
- venues
- ladder
- simply
- holistically
Original Text
Next, we'll need to identify our challenges. Now, it's important to know that, for the most part, this won't be just the opposite of step one. We won't gain a whole lot by simply thinking about what's missing from our map. Instead, we need to approach this more holistically. There are lots of music venues on our map. Awesome. But are they struggling? Do we have a venue ladder, which just means, can an artist starting out at a coffee house open mic see a clear path for how they'll grow from that 25-seat room to a hundred-seat room and so on? Or are we expecting them to go from a coffeehouse to a coliseum?
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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