Tune Your Guitar Before Soundcheck
Before you check your guitar amp, please tune your guitar. Especially if there are people in the room!
At lower levels of rock stardome, bands often need to perform a fast and dirty sound check, usually known as a “line check.” This is normally done while people are in the room. It’s akward standing on stage while people are watching, and not being ready to play.
Don’t noodle on your guitar. Don’t bang on your drum kit. Only make noise when the sound guy asks you to. It’ll make things go much faster, lessen the time spent standing quietly on stage.
The most amature thing that you can do is to dial in your sound, in front of people, with an out of tune guitar. It knocks your band down a couple notches on the professional musician scale.
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