How to DJ

Transcript When you’re mixing, pretty much the golden rule is just for the mix to be on beat, but you want to try to keep it as original and as entertaining as possible, and you can pretty much mix any two signals together as long as you can make them sound good, but also to …

Transcript So there are so many different ways to transition from one record to the next: you can use cues, you can use sound effects. I’m about to actually give you an example of using a sound effect to transition from one record to the next. I have a Reggae record on my right deck, …

Transcript “About the Expert: DP ONE I go by the name of DP ONE representing Brooklyn NYC, representing turntable [inaudible], supreme beings, universal super-nation and heavy hitters and I am the main instructor for Rock & Soul DJ School. I play a little bit of everything, Hip Hop, R&B, Reggae, Latin, House, all different types …

Transcript I reccommend, if it’s FM radio, uh, you might want to start out by interning, ok? I know sometimes it might suck to fetch coffee for someone or to sweep or mop or whatever it is they want you to do as an intern or to file papers, make copies, but, you know, don’t …

Transcript First figure out what kind of party it is that you’re getting booked to spin and what is it that they want to hear. It can range new music, old music, everything in between. So you definitely have to understand what crowd you’re going to face. If it’s a top 40 commercial club, but …

Transcript “Popular D.J Music for Parties First figure out what kind of party it is that you’re getting booked to spin. And what is it that they want to hear. It can range, old music, new music everything in between. So you definitely have to understand what crowd you’re going to face. If it’s a …

Transcript “This is how to use one of the most popular DJ software’s out there, known as Serato. This is what I use for professional use. First of all you’ve got to figure out if you’re going to use vinyl or CD players or the CDJ. I personally use vinyl turntables so the program comes …

Transcript “So right now I have a song loaded up and I have 2 copies of the same song on each player and we’re just going to repeat the first bar and the way we’re going to do that is we’re going to find our beginning, starting point. I have it marked at 12, okay? …

Transcript The MIDI controller that I’m using, That I… My choice, is made by Novation. It’s called the Dicer. This is a controller, a MIDI controller, that I use with Serato. This allows me to use, or to access, my cue points, to create cue points, to create loops, and also, pretty much, I can …

Transcript “Popular DJ Wedding Music When you get booked to DJ a wedding, first thing you want to do is you want to speak with your client and figure out what type of music they’re into. You don’t want to treat two crowds the same or two audiences the same because what worked for one …

Transcript The first one we’re just going to focus on the hand to record movement. And it’s the most simplest scratch to learn is baby scratching. You can also use a scratch to queue up your records and you headphones. And it’s just a simple forward and back movement. First thing you want to do …

Transcript “How to Beat Juggle Beat juggling, what you’re doing is you’re manipulating the recording. You’re rearranging the sounds, or you’re rearranging what was recorded on the record you’re replacing the kick with the snare, or you’re creating your own music with the music that was recorded on the record or on the c.d. You …

Transcript “D.J Tricks or Trick Mixing What I was doing is I was just playing a song and then I loaded up the copy of the song and I pretty much doubled up or I was chasing. And then incorporating some basic scrouching as well as baby scrouching and some chirps. Pretty much just chasing, …

Transcript There are various softwares out there, there’s virtual DJ, there’s Traktor Scratch Pro, there’s Stork, there’s Serato. From my experience, what I have noticed is, the main tool, commonly used DJ software out there is Traktor Scratch Pro and Serato. I personally use Serato. I’m currently learning how to use Traktor Scratch Pro. It’s …

Transcript You need to ask yourself, do you wanna play vinyl, do you wanna play CDs or if you want it all in one midi controller. Look online, you know rockandsoul.com, or go into a shop- Rock and Soul has an actual shop you can actually walk into, speak to sales reps and just talk …

Transcript “D.J Tutorial For Beginners If you’re curious about the D.J art form definitely feel free to also maybe sigh up for a class. I instruct a class here at “”Rock and Soul””. You can come in and schedule a day for you to give it a little test run. And then ask yourself if …

Transcript “Pretty much every mixer has standard features. For instance, this mixer is a two channel mixer. So, if you have a two channel mixer as well, most of the features that are there on this mixer you’ll find on your mixer somewhere. The layout now isn’t always the same but the functions and features …

Transcript There are different events out there,there are clubs,private parties,private functions,there’s also like city gigs,college parties or there might be like actual dance competitions which I DJ a lot.I start off by locking in my price.Once I lock in my price,I have the address,I know what time I need to be there to setup.So if …

Transcript “There are so many DJ mixers out there on the market. It depends on what you’re looking for, you have the standard 4 channel mixer and then you also have the 2 channel mixers. You can get a 2 channel mixer like this one, this is a Ring TTM 57. I would start with …

Transcript If you’re a home DJ and you want to figure out how to get crackin’ you can pretty much invest in a basic DJ set-up where there’s turntables, CD-Jays or all in one unit. Get yourself a nice powered speaker so you can bypass using an amplifier and all this unnecessary cables. If you’re …

Transcript So this is how you cue a record. First, you need a record. Place the record on the turn table, grab the head shell by the head shell handle, and what you’re looking for on the record are the grooves, alright. The thick–the thicker–grooves indicates where a song begins and where the song ends. …

Transcript You have to first understand what the one means. It’s just meaning the first count or the first beat in a bar, right. So this is the top of the recording, this is where I would like to start from, right. So, okay. So what may aim is is to make a smooth transition …

Transcript “Okay, so this is shuffling genres or genre hopping as I would like to call it. Pretty much you’re jumping from genre to genre whether it’s Hip Hop going into 80’s or R&B going into Rock. A lot of the events I get hired to DJ at, most of them are open format so …

Transcript “For this particular rig here, I have 2 identical turntables. I have a mixer in the middle. I have my laptop computer and I have my reference monitor. I want to make sure that the song I have loaded up on the left deck is going to be heard on the headphones and through …

Transcript Ok this is how you troubleshoot when you’re having problems with signal flow. First of all, once you understand how the signal flows to your equipment, then you have to ask yourself “What could the problem possibly be?” For instance, this is the situation: You’re using Serato, you loaded up the song, you’re getting …

Transcript “I have a record loaded on the left deck and I have a record loaded on the right deck. This is what I have on the left, this is what I have loaded on the right deck. I’m going to give you an example of how you’d mix these two recordings together. You do …

Transcript First of all, it starts by being a music lover and if you feel you are a music lover, that’s a good start. I know there are a lot of people that start off with showing up at to party, listening to music and trying to come up with different mixes in their head, …