Life Between Contracts: Cruise Ship Musician Vlog

Inside The Music - my vlog about all things relating to my multi-faceted music career and my life in general.
January 24, 2024
What is life like for a Cruise Ship Musician between contracts working on ships? Well, here is a day in the life of my time with my family during this time. My wife get a work out in at the gym, my son goes to school, I work on editing KZbin videos and we discuss ways we earn income between paychecks. Also, it's Tuesday which means it's FRAMILY NIGHT! We go to Altitude trampoline park for fun and Sobroso for dinner with our best friends!
GEAR USED:
Cameras:
Sony ZV-E10
Sigma 16mm Lens
GoPro Hero 9 Black
DJI Mavic Air 2
Camera Mic:
Rode VideoMic Pro Shotgun Camera Mic
Lights:
Lume Cube 2.0
IVISII G2 Pocket RGB
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[@h5mind373]

My Dad was born and raised in Chicago, and I've had the good fortune to have visited numerous times- there are worse places to hang out between gigs! I love the river tour of the city's architecture and history! And their jazz music is of course legendary.

[@DanAtEXIT]

Yeah buddy!

[@DavidPaigeMusic]

Thanks man! Always appreciate all your support Dan!!

[@darrenhartley]

I loved this little insight into your lives at home - thank you for sharing ❤

[@DavidPaigeMusic]

Thank you!! We try our best to make sure to soak in all in during the time between contracts. It can be a challenge, but we have to balance rest, parenting Ben, seeing our friends and family, having house duties that we don’t have on the ship, and trying to stay on the “no income” budget!

[@jmornhi]

Nice work, David! To what extent do you spend time between jobs administratively on your music prep for the upcoming contract? Do you have to spend much time listening to new tunes at all and trying to arrange new sets, or are cruise ship patrons generally more just into stuff that is known by the general public?

[@DavidPaigeMusic]

Thanks for watching! This is a great question. We spent probably 12 total hours on that between our last contract and our contract that starts tomorrow (2 months). There were a small handful of songs that we wanted to learn, there was a bit of set list re-organization that felt necessary, and we had a few songs we had to learn for auditions, so we added them to our set list anyway. The guests on ships are similar to, and generally a little older than (depending on the cruise line) your average bar patrons. They like what they know. We throw in the occasional more obscure cover to please ourselves, but if it flops, we don’t really want to play it again. Same with original music. Though, once you’ve won over a cruise ship guest, they’re more likely to support original music, because they’ve gotten to know you better than the random bar patron.