They’re watching. They notice the little things. The little extra touches and changes.
And it’s probably only that small group of fans who notice. But they do, and they care.
And that’s why you do those little things.
If you’re doing them in hopes that everyone will notice, it will feel like no one is noticing.
If you’re doing them for that small group of fans, I guarantee they notice.
*** When I was a kid there was a band I saw a bazillion times and they had a song where after the song was over there was an unscripted amount of dead space and then the drummer would do a fill and cue an extended outro of the song.
Sometimes it was a short dead space, sometimes suuuuuuper long, sometimes somewhere in-between.
It was fun because I had figured out the drummer was the only one who knew when he was going to come in…so everyone else in the band was held in a funny tension just like us in the audience not knowing when the drummer was gonna come back in.
I always looked forward to that little part though. They didn’t do it for everyone, they did it for me.
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