What is your 'line check' song?

[Tijuana Tex]

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?

 

[JonnyAngle]

Money - Pink Floyd. Uses all strings

 

[Clammy]

Usually one of our tunes - "Long Live The Loud" and "Violence And Force" are regulars. Occasionally, I'll break out "Ace of Spades", too!

Cheers!

 

[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.

 

[Curmei]

Theme from Inspector Gadget.

 

[addylewis]

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...

 

[Doug Parent]

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.

 

[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.

 

[cschenk78]

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...

 

[Staredge]

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?????

 

[chaosMK]

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.

 

[skwee]

Different every night, but often Horse with No Name, our reggae version of Wild World, or Got to Get you into my Life

 

[bass12]

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.

 

[rtslinger]

We also use a song as a sound check "Keep your hands to yourself" by the Georgia Satellites

 

[charlie monroe]

Cygnus X-1

 

[PlayTheBass]

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.

 

[mikkejohansson]

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.

 

[msxbass]

Jungle Boogie and then just open strings so the sound guy can make some adjustments.
Sometimes Boris the Spider for fun.

 

[godofthunder59]

quarter notes on the E string, no wanking, sound guys seem to love it.

 

[Matt R.]

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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