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https://abcnews.go.com/US/270-cruise-ship-passengers-sickened-norovirus-royal-caribbean/story?id=60291868
I imagine being a guitar player in a pit band on one of those ships would be a total nightmare, and for those jobs in general I assume you need a pretty serious baseline of chops/musical knowledge/sight reading fluency.
She's a solo artist, has a very powerful voice and was happy doing three hour gigs with us every week as the lead and only singer, but the ship gig is something else. 4 x 50 minute sets a day with one day off a week is a killer, especially with air-con.
She does ok and signed up for more and gets paid pretty well, but a guitarist/singer duo on the same boat only get paid the same as her in total because "they're only doing the job of one person", so I don't know what that means for a full band member.
The nearest I've done is 6 x 5 hour gigs per week on the Euro casino circuit in a guitar trio - after the first week I was having to learn to play simplified chord inversions because my fingertips started to bleed. It's the reason I started playing slide and using open tunings so I could play one-finger barre chords.
It's a big price to pay just to be able to say "hey man, I'm a pro musician".
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This is a demo I quickly roughed out with her in my studio which helped her get the gig;
Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
EDIT- looks like your video fell foul of the Singapore censors.
I can view it via VPN but not if I am via a Singapore DNS.
Weird.
Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
Be able to do the above regardless of how much sleep, whether you have flu, whether you feel like shit....
Then make sure all your colleagues have the same skill set.
Trolley dollies could break out the guitar to calm things down in times of air rage or bus conductors could sing Hallelujah to destress passengers in traffic jams.