DJ Hero’s new standalone turntable was finally released yesterday in North America!
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Just wanted to give you a heads up because this is an awesome video game that is a spin-off from Guitar Hero.
This controller looks awesome! You can battle your friends or DJ by yourself.
Beatmatching can be tough starting out but if you understand the theory behind beatmatching then it will make dj mixing so much easier for you.
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Now if you’re anything like me you probably shudder at the word “theory”. It sounds very academic… doesn’t it. And anything relating to school I want NOTHING to do with…
That being said I found a sweet series articles that explains all of the different points of beatmatching. The different steps won’t actually teach you how to DJ… but they will help prepare you for beginning to learn the basics of dj mixing and beatmatching
http://www.mixingguide.com/beatmatching-summary
As funny as it sounds… the secret to learning how to dj and beatmatch doesn’t actually have anything to do with beatmatching. (To see some video DJ Lessons on beatmatching sign up for our newsletter by clicking HERE now!
ALL new DJs struggle with beatmatching. Some more than others. This makes sense because the human brain isn’t trained to listen to two different sounds and determine their speeds. And the process of mixing takes it one step further because not only do we have to focus on two different songs… we have to be able to tell which one is going faster!
This is much easier to determine if you throw in the songs at the right time and the right speed… hence the importance of the “cue and throw”. It doesn’t matter if you are playing MP3s, Ableton Live, DJ Turntables, DJ CD Players, Traktor Studio or other Dj Software… The Cue and Throw are ESSENTIAL for DJing.
“Cueing Up A Record” means getting the record ready to play right on the first beat… and “throwing in a record” means playing that song at the right time and the right speed.
So you might be wondering what the title of this post is all about…
I know you came here to learn how to dj but you’re probably thinking “who said anything about 10 year old kids?!?”…
Well I coach a lot of new DJs with their DJ mixing and to be honest a lot of new DJs have all of these reasons and stories about why learning to dj will be hard for them. (To make it easier sign up for our Free Dj Lessons newsletter by clicking HERE now!)
The 42 year old guy will say “I’m too old to learn how to DJ”… A lot of new DJs that are girls will say something like “DJing must be tougher for girls”… and a lot of beginner djs claim that DJing is “too technical… the dj equipment is too confusing”. I’m sure you’ve had similar limiting thoughts yourself!
What you’re about to see is a video of a 10 year old that learned to scratch and mix within only a few days. This kid can scratch records like mad!
This past week I had a chance to rock it out on Pioneer CDJ 2000s. And to be honest I LOVE them!
If the CDJ 1000s weren’t good enough (they’re the nightclub and music industry standard) These new CDJs take traditional DJ Mixing and digital djing with dj software to the next level. (To take your DJing to the next level sign up for our Dj training newsletter by clicking HERE now!)
This awesome piece of dj gear will store all of your music, it can play all of your music from USBs, SD cards, MP3 CDS and even DVDS. The 2000 works VERY well with ableton live and has built in controls to work smoothly with traktor and serato scratch live!
I just found this awesome dj video featuring the best piece of dj equipment on the market right now:
