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How To Become A DJ
Want to know how to become a DJ? This section is for you! Getting started with figuring out how to become a DJ can be very confusing. How and where do you start? If you’re just starting out and want to learn how to be a good DJ you’ll find everything you need right here: all of the key points for becoming a DJ! This section will show you how to become a DJ as quick as possible!
Looking for DJ classes? Stop! Hold on a second. Before you go and give your hard earned money to some dj instructor to give you DJ classes (or one DJ class) there are some important things you need to know.
See, a lot of new DJs run out and spend their life savings – or even worse, their credit card – on DJ classes that don’t end up helping them learn how to DJ. They come out after their last DJ class not being able to DJ that well and completely out of money.
You need to check a few things with the DJ classes before you sign up and throw your money down. To help you, in this post I’m going to lay out the common pitfalls and how you can avoid them below.
DJ Tips are a dime a dozen. There are literally thousands of DJ tip websites scattered online. To add to this there are hundreds of DJ books showing you how to DJ via DJ tips. In the end a lot of the DJ tips aren’t even that great. A lot are out dated.
Don’t listen to what they say on the DJ message forums! The DJ tip “teach yourself how to DJ” is one of the oldest in the book and it couldn’t be more wrong! Crusty old vinyl DJs that never got anywhere back in the day will tell you to teach yourself because thats how they learned. And the thing about humans is that most of us can’t admit that we’re wrong. So we give advice like “teach yourself how to DJ”.
DJ Tip # is to go find someone to mentor you. Go out and get DJ lessons or get some DJ training videos online. You’ll be DJing 10x faster and will have way more fun in the process!
Back before DJ Forums, when I was getting started, I remember there were only a few ways you could connect with other DJs. You could be that awkward new DJ that hung out beside the DJ booth all night trying to make friends with the DJ, or you could go to an expensive DJ school. To be honest, I wasn’t thrilled about either option.
But now there are DJ forums. DJ message forums are a great, easy way to connect with other DJs in your city and around the world to share advice and information. As a new DJ its essential to keep on top of whats hot in the world of DJing and DJ forums & DJ message boards (also called DJ discussion forums) are the best way to do that. Now you can log onto one of he top DJ message forums and within a few hours be talking to other new DJs in your city. How incredible is that?
But the truth is that this isn’t always the case. There are a number of DJ message forums that have dwindling attendance and a less-than-successful (to put it lightly) message forum user base. You’ll find a lot of failed Djs turned keyboard jockeys (people that love to give advice online despite never finding success themselves) giving bad DJ advice on certain DJ forums. And as a new DJ its vitally important that you’re taking advice from successful DJs that actually know what they’re doing.
So you’re interested in going to a DJ school. Thousands of DJs all around the world attend DJ schools to learn how to DJ like a pro. Most DJ schools you’ll find are found on the wrong side of the tracks in a dark, cramped basement. Walking down and hearing the music and seeing all of the gear cluttering the room will get you excited but this isn’t the only kind of DJ school around.
There are lots of DJ Schools online and now even the biggest universities offer courses on music production, nightlife and DJing. Take the example of Yale – one of the world’s top Ivy League schools (Ivy League being snobbery lingo for top school). To go to Yale you may have to take out a mortgage on your parents house or sell your kidney (the latter probably being easier). But even the rich kids want to know how to party. Thats why Yale unleashed a course called “Nightlife Culture”.
The class actually goes out to different nightclubs (The Boom Boom Room in New York City is shown above), partakes and then discusses topics like “how to be a dj” and “how to get past the lineup of a nightclub”. Read the rest of this entry »
So you’re looking for DJ names? Finding a cool DJ name is essential to your success with DJing. Choose a good DJ name and it will help grow your following. Your DJ name will be easy to remember and catchy so it will be passed along from person to person. Select a bad dj name and people won’t remember it and no mater how good of a DJ you are, people won’t think you’re cool.
Don’t worry. If you’re looking for good dj names you’ve come to the right place! I’m going to walk you through – step by step – how to filter through the thousands of potential Dj name to find the dj name thats right for you! Read the rest of this entry »
If this mini DJ documentary doesn’t get you fired up to learn how to be a DJ, I don’t know what will. Max Vangeli, a young up-and-coming DJ and producer out of Eastern Europe, allowed a DJ documentary to be filmed on him during this past year’s WMC (Winter Music Conference). This isn’t like most of the boring dj documentaries out there. This one is only a few minutes long and its guaranteed to get you fired up!
Max shares some great DJ lessons he’s learned and some great advice he’s received about producing music. You’ll also see some of the superstar DJs that play Max’s tunes – guys that he gets to DJ with – Kaskade, Steve Angello, Mark Knight, AN21, Thomas Gold and Armand Van Helden all make appearances.
A friend of mine and I love to have deep discussions. During our last sit down she was asking me about the future of DJing and the DJ industry. Once I had given my 2 cents she then told me what she thinks.
She believes that DJs will one day become extinct. She explained that DJ robots will eventually be able to take the job of a DJ a save nightclub and different venue owners a lot of money on DJ gigs. And she has a point. There are tons of companies popping up offering “Musical Branding” services to remove the DJ from the venue and replace it with a robot that is programmed to play a good song at the right time.
Will this technology or the companies that are selling it become the demise of the DJ? Will it kill the DJing industry once and for all?
If you haven’t yet heard of the Red Bull Music Academy, its a top notch DJing and production school where a lucky few get to learn from some of the top DJs in the world! The good news for you is that now you can be one of the lucky few because the videos of their lectures are now available online.
Thats right, you can now browse through hundreds of top professional experts that will explain all the ins-and-out of DJing, producing and the music industry. You may not recognize some of the lecturers (guest DJs) at first. This is because they are using their real names. And a lot of the speakers are big industry folks that pull the strings behind the scenes.
Want to know how to be a DJ? Everyone wants to be a dj these days so its important that you start out properly to get ahead of all of the DJ competition out there.
Even if you just want to DJ in your bedroom, it is important that you follow a crucial series of steps to ensure that you don’t get frustrated and give up learning how to be a dj.
98% of new DJs that start out learning how to dj end up giving up before they can fully beatmatch, let alone ever play a real DJ gig. Its kind of sad but its true! Read the rest of this entry »
All new DJs starting out learning how to DJ picture any amazing dj lifestyle of fun, females and furious parties. The reality is that most DJs end up going the other way and end up like the guy you see here in this video.
My best friend was watching this video and he said it made him think of me. After watching the video and feeling insulted (joking) I flashed back to all of the new DJs that I started DJing with. Most ended up like the guy in this video; weird, fat, hermit, tech heads that call themselves DJs but they have never played a real DJ gig.
So what went wrong for all of these new DJs. And how you can you avoid the same fate of become a weird guy that tells everyone he’s a DJ?
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