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03-08-2012, 03:39 PM
| | |  What is your 'line check' song?
When the engineer says "okay...bass" in that deep muffled voice through the fold back - what do you play?
I never consider it beforehand, but I always seem to go straight for the riff from 'Five Finger Discount' by Choking Victim or 'Anxoius Mofo' by Minutemen. It's practical, melodic, uses all the strings and isn't a complete w*nkfest.
What about you? Which riff do you play? One of your own? Improv? |
03-08-2012, 03:41 PM
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03-08-2012, 03:52 PM
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03-08-2012, 03:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Neenah, WI | | | I play chromatically, slowly up from the low E (on my 4 string) trying to find any frequencies that "pop" or "ring" and let the sound guy tweak and EQ away... then play something simple along with drums to get a balance.
that's what the sound check is for.
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03-08-2012, 03:58 PM
|  | eltiT resU motsuC | | | | | Theme from Inspector Gadget.
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03-08-2012, 04:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: sheffield, england | | | Albatross - Fleetwood Mac solo
Bonneville Blues - Fred T Baker
Apache - Shadows
Part of one of the songs we're playing or random walking blues like "Lucille" or something...
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03-08-2012, 04:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: San Diego, Ca. | | | I do a walking pattern, then I slap the bass line for Brick House, then I play a little of In a gadda da vida. |
03-08-2012, 04:23 PM
| | | | We actually have a song called "Sound Check". The thing is, if we stop in the middle because of an adjustment, the crowd is like...uh...okay, I guess we clap now...er. We should probably change that. I mostly play scales. Maybe a slap line. |
03-08-2012, 04:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Watertown, NY | | | Gotta Jiboo or China Cat...just like the way they sound without other musicians mucking them up...gives both me and sound guy a good range of what to listen for...
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03-08-2012, 05:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Germantown, MD | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Peace Cee  We actually have a song called "Sound Check". The thing is, if we stop in the middle because of an adjustment, the crowd is like...uh...okay, I guess we clap now...er. We should probably change that. I mostly play scales. Maybe a slap line. | KBB?????
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03-08-2012, 05:51 PM
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Hi-fi into an old tube amp | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Albuquerque, NM | | | I usually slap some punchy notes on the B string, then go into a little high range tapping, then some harmonics, mabye some blast rhythms on E string B/C. That covers what I do during the show.
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03-08-2012, 06:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Minneapolis | | | Different every night, but often Horse with No Name, our reggae version of Wild World, or Got to Get you into my Life
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03-08-2012, 07:36 PM
| | Fueled by chocolate | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Montreal, Canada | | | The three that seem to come out the most frequently:
"Wamba" by Salif Keita
"Just A Touch Of Love" by Slave
"The Message" by Cymande. |
03-09-2012, 05:48 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Belleville,New Jersey USA | | | We also use a song as a sound check "Keep your hands to yourself" by the Georgia Satellites |
03-09-2012, 11:25 AM
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03-09-2012, 11:28 AM
|  | aka Mac Daddy | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Carmichael, CA | | | I always think of funny things I should play at soundcheck, but then I can never remember them when the soundcheck "spotlight" is on me. So I usually end up playing the Barney Miller Theme, Another One Bites The Dust, or Pink Panther. |
03-09-2012, 11:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Northern Sweden | | | A-string, E-string and if I'm feeling it; D-string.
Seriously though, i try to give the sound guy some long notes to play with so he can here his changes to the eq, if needed.
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03-09-2012, 11:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: NewHampshire | | | Jungle Boogie and then just open strings so the sound guy can make some adjustments.
Sometimes Boris the Spider for fun. |
03-09-2012, 12:38 PM
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03-09-2012, 12:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Huntsville AL | | Quote:
Originally Posted by F-Clef-Jef I play chromatically, slowly up from the low E (on my 4 string) trying to find any frequencies that "pop" or "ring" and let the sound guy tweak and EQ away... then play something simple along with drums to get a balance.
that's what the sound check is for. | This right here. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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