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April 22, 2007 at 5:42 pm #1041128
i thought i’d drop by and leave a note in case anyone was interested in DJ tutorials. I’ve just spent months putting together DJ courses and put some free stuff online on my web site. Anyway, if you are interested in taking a look go to, http://www.djtutorial.com
Cheers
April 22, 2007 at 5:57 pm #1103454sounds like a good way to get people in the no 🙂 do you teach different styles or just the basics?
good job
April 23, 2007 at 9:05 am #1103457Thanks! No it a full course, so it starts at the basics and runs right through to much more advanced stuff. Its one of those things that is going to keep on developing as and when important feedback comes in. 😉
April 23, 2007 at 3:54 pm #1103455i dj psy, would be happy to give it a go to see what/how you teach, point me in the right direction 🙂
April 30, 2007 at 10:15 am #1103458great stuff, my students so far have been pretty happy! Its something i want to develop with them too so if you do download it then please let me know what you think of it. If something comes up that could be explained better then i’m happy to change it. The address is http://www.djtutorial.com, then click on the download centre link. Cheers, Mark
May 1, 2007 at 6:26 pm #1103450surely tune selection is a very basic and paramount consideration [not a later introduced ‘advanced’ technique]? :crazy:
May 4, 2007 at 5:31 pm #1103459That really depends.. you can select tunes as much as you like, but you need to mix them first 😉
May 4, 2007 at 6:16 pm #1103451I disagree – if you select great tunes people will dance anyway and you can always learn to mix later :crazy_fre
beat mixing is a matter of practising till you get it right…if your tunes are bad no-one but the most desperate or uncritical will dance to them…if you cant pick a good tune what are you doing djing:crazy_diz
May 5, 2007 at 12:01 am #1103449Both are equally as important. If I hear great tunes with no technical ability behind them then it makes me wonder why I’m bothering to listen to a dj. I might aswell just use two jukeboxes but start tunes 1 minute before the last one ends and sit through an unpleasent aural experience for 25% of the night.
I agree with what you are saying to some extent Raj but if I hear/see great technical ability it would entertain me more than good tunes that sound like a heard of wilderbeast falling down the stairs for a quater of the content.
May 5, 2007 at 11:09 am #1103452I could be a little biased I guess – have heard hundreds of ‘technically’ competent djs who bore me to tears and drive me out of the venues [some of them because they ruin good tunes by only letting the barest part play before mixing out so as to show off how good they are :rolleyes:]
I would still prefer great tunes with indifferent mixing to crap tunes with excellent mixing…comes down to personal taste 😉 if the mixing was really awful I might get hacked off I suppose but so far not…
May 5, 2007 at 1:56 pm #1103460Actually i do agree with Raj, tunes are very important. But the course is about teaching dj skills. If a DJ can only beat match that is also no good… in fact thats just as boring as the dj that plays the same stuff all night.
Tune selection is advanced because you can’t mix decent tunes without knowing how to mix… that means knowing all your options, not just the same old routine from one turntable to another. Also tune selection isn’t just about buying loads of tunes that you think are dead good… there is much more of a science behind it, i think raj under estimates the task of tune selecton. When do you bring it down? Do you just leave it banging all night… that sounds just as boring as the man that can only beat match.
May 5, 2007 at 5:29 pm #1103453you keep it flowing all night but not at the same pace :groucho: I like to drift through the speeds [bpms] and the styles to avoid boring people 😉
variation in bpms depends on the target audience and what they are getting up to dance to – if they dont dance after 3 or 4 tunes, I am not what they are looking for and I hand on to the next dj ….
the style issue can be a knotty one for some people – you can get very stuck and end up with all your tunes sounding the same due to how you have defined the style….To me its all house music and I am a sucker for a heavy acid line so my sets reflect this.
I started out playing ambient chillout music [cabaret voltaire, shamanic tribes on acid, ambient trance][ as little as 90bpm] and gradually upped my pace as I went along [today there is no record I wont consider mixing into something else as long as I think it will mix smoothly] top speed in my box goes to the gabba techno tunes at around 200 bpm
:crazy_fre for a couple of my radio sets :
http://www.partyvibe.com/vbulletin/downloads.php?do=file&id=698
http://www.partyvibe.com/vbulletin/downloads.php?do=file&id=469these are the faster end of the tunes and the mixing may not be 100% perfect but I think its listenable to :groucho: [be aware one of these is an epic set – very very long :scared:]
May 6, 2007 at 4:42 pm #1103456Raj wrote:you keep it flowing all night but not at the same pace :groucho: I like to drift through the speeds [bpms] and the styles to avoid boring people 😉true true, thats what i will be doing that for the first two hours of my radio slot if i get it …
third hour is beat matching and what not …
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