Want to learn to dj? This is a picture from the club last Friday Night (taken on my iPhone) that might inspire you. If this picture doesn’t make you want to learn to DJ than I don’t know what will!

The nightclub was packed and people came ready to hit the dancefloor. This is how to learn to dj! I got paid very well and the dj equipment in the dj booth was awesome and tweaked for perfection. The room was filled with beautiful people and it was definitely a house music friendly crowd! It was a great night to be a DJ! I reflected back on my time when I started to learn to dj and was struggling to learn to mix and I remember that back then I couldn’t imagine DJing at nightclubs like this! All I wanted was to learn to dj online. Now I was the man controlling the party!
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This is a question that I get asked all the time… “Should I learn to how to dj by taking dj lessons in my city or should I find online video dj lessons?

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Aside from that, here is the best advice I can give! You’re going to pay $50 – $100 per hour for a DJ Lesson. Thats a lot of money considering you will need HOURS of dj instruction! Furthermore, DJ Lessons won’t help you choose your gear, set up your gear or teach you how to get gigs.

If you can find some great DJ Lesson videos online then jump all over them. For the price of one DJ Lesson or less, you can get a video that will teach you everything about DJing that you can watch over and over. Stop, rewind, stop rewind.
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I finally was able to track down a number of videos done by the mixing and scratching legend, James Zabiella.

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If you are learning to dj, Zabiella is one guy you want to take note of. He has mixed scratching, mixing and effects to create his own unique sound that everyone loves. In this series of videos (one above and more below) he shows you how he does it!

More videos below!

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One of the top questions I get asked by guys and girls like you that want to learn to dj is weather they should learn to mix or learn to scratch.

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Here it is….straight up! Dj Mixing and scratching are two VERY different skill sets. Even though they can be used together, you will have to start by learning to dj with one or the other.

Mixing is more geared towards playing multiple songs together to create new unique songs, playing with the energy of the must to fuck with peoples emotions and to take people on a journey. Scratching is more geared towards jaw dropping short 5 minute performances.

Scratching and Mixing also require very different dj equipment to learn and play on. Scratch DJs swear by vinyl and mixers with a tight crossfader. This is because they need tough equipment that will allow them to feel the small sounds and cut back and forth rapidly in between sounds. Mixing djs have all moved to CDJs (dj cd players) and a lot are heading towards fully digital setups because mixing can be done on almost any DJ setup.

Both methods of DJing are wicked but here is why I chose learning to dj mix first over learning to scratch vinyl:

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Yes, we all knew that it was only a matter of time until someone made a Guitar Hero knockoff for DJing.

After all, more kids now reach for turntables than guitars around the world. DJs are the new Rockstars and EVERYONE wants to be a DJ.

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All Guitar Hero references aside, I have head from some inside sources that the game can actually help you Learn To Dj. It will teach you how to mix, how to read a crowd and other little tricks and techniques. While I am skeptical that you can learn any real DJing skills from this game I still plan to give it a go with the boys (while having a beer or two)!

Have you guys heard anything about it?

The official Dj Hero site says…

DJ Hero features an amazing variety of music across genres – tracks that you love and reflect who you are. Using an authentic turntable controller, you will spin and scratch more than 100 songs into unique mixes and become the life of the party. Get ready for a whole new phenomena in music.

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So you want to Learn To Dj. Awesome!

Your mate that used to DJ says “go out and buy a pair of turntables and start learning to mix. You log onto the message forums and old school DJs say “buy turntables and learn the real art of DJing“.

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Here are the facts…. When the physical music industry fell apart 10 years ago, a lot of distributors went out of business. They owed the record labels a lot of money which they couldn’t pay so a lot of record labels also ended up going out of business. The distribution channels for vinyl records fell apart, so much so that 99% of labels stopped printing vinyl.

This is the number one reason why DJs stopped using Turntables. It wasn’t because records were too expensive. It wasn’t because vinyl was too heavy to lug around. DJs stopped playing on Turntables because they had nothing to play!

A lot of the DJs went against my advice and bought tables only to find out that they couldn’t find music to play! The only markets for buying vinyl were Ebay and local classified listing sites. Nightclubs too abandoned the turntables for dj cd players such as the Pioneer CDJ 1000s.

The great news for the die hard vinylists and for people that are learning to DJ is that you can now DJ with vinyl and have access to all of your favorite songs. The best of both worlds.

How is this possible….?!?!?!?

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I wanted to post this video as an example to help answer a question that I get asked a lot: What is a Re-edit? Different variations of this questions usually get thrown my way:

“What is the difference between a remix and a re-edit?”
“How do you do a re-edit?”
“Why do DJs re-edit?”

Its simple, a remix is where you take a track and completely rewrite it. A re-edit is where you take different pieces of the track and re-organize them as this crazy David Guetta video sort of illustrates.

For those of you that don’t know, the hip hop sample of the guy speaking “body moving….body moving….body moving” is from a Run DMC track from the early 90s. David guetta re-edits one of his favorite tracks Bodyrox – Yeah by dropping in this well known hip hop sample before “Yeah” kicks in. He isn’t mixing this in live….he edited this at home in the studio.

Of course the next question is, why would DJs want to re-edit a song? Its usually because they don’t like a certain part of a song but they like another part. So they cut the part they don’t like out and add more of the part they did. Or maybe they think a certain vocal would sound great over a grooving track so they’ll throw that in there during the break down. Or they want to make a song a little more interesting for the dancefloor by dropping in a sample from another popular track (as illustrated by David Guetta).

The top pro DJs in the world use re-editing a little differently though…

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So you’ve decided that you want to Learn To DJ. Awesome! You want to be the next Tiesto, David Guetta or Frankie Wild (Its All Gone Pete Tong)…

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You should know by now that when learning to dj the basics are super important. Choosing the right Dj Gear (DJ CD players, vinyl turntables, software like Ableton Live?) learning to mix well (beatmatching) and understanding how to work the industry so you can get lots of big gigs are essential. But there is one more thing that stands out as a “must do” for new DJs that often goes overlooked in the mad dash to landing your first gig.

Over the last few weeks I’ve been sitting down with some of the biggest and best DJs in the world. These guys are the cream of the crop in the DJ world. We mostly sat down to catch up but I also interviewed these superstar DJs to get their secrets for making it from the Bedroom to the Dj Booth in the biggest clubs in the world. Those of you are signed up for the newsletter will get access to the interviews soon when they become available (soon!).

I have got a lot of CRAZY stories and mind blowing tips from them but there is one piece of advice that stands tall above everything else.

It sounds so simple at first. Its almost common sense. But so many new DJs fail to follow this one cardinal rule that will largely determine their success or failure as a DJ.

Here it is….. DEVELOP YOUR SOUND.

You’re probably thinking that’s it? Thats the big secret? Why is it such a big deal to develop your own sound as a DJ? Here’s why…

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So you guys probably read my DJ Steve Angello vs Paris Hilton post from a few days ago. Steve was DJing at a popular nightclub in Miami at the Winter Music Conference when Paris Hilton came up and asked him to play Hip Hop.

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This was Steve Angello’s party and on top of that, this was the Winter Music Conference where 500,000 dance music fanatics flock to Miami to hear the newest and best in dance, techno, trance and house music. Steve was in no position to play Hip Hop even if he wanted to. Paris didn’t like this and it resulted in her boyfriend fighting the club doormen outside.

While DJing this past weekend I was faced with a similar situation when a group of drunk girls came into the packed club on a “stagette”. One wanted me to play the new Britney Spears track… I was polite and said that I couldn’t play it. She got angry and said “If you’re not going to play it then I WILL”. She grabbed my headphones and lunged at the CD Decks.

She went for the one dj cd player that was playing out loud so when she put her hand on it to ‘scratch’ the song stopped dead in the club. Silence. Then she hit the next song button and a different song started to play.

Part of becoming a good DJ is that you have to Learn To Dj while getting bad song requests. To avoid horror stories like this I have come up with 10 excuses to avoid DJ requests. Some are hilarious, but all are effective. I’ve tried every one:

1) What was that? What was that? What was that?

Just keep shouting “what… I can’t hear you” and after a few minuets they will walk away. It might take a half an hour…but in the end you’ll win!

2) “Sure, I’ll play that in a minuet.” / “Coming Right Up!!!”

This is my favorite excuse and the favorite excuse of many top DJs.

When agreeing to the requester you give them with a sense of power and satisfaction. They strut away feeling like they run the club, and might even buy you a drink (bonus!).

They’ll go back to their table or to their friends happy and content, and most likely they’ll forget they ever asked you for it. But on the rare occasion they realize you haven’t actually played what they asked for yet, you can just respond, “it’s coming up next” and then keep going as you are. Some Djs prefer the more direct “Coming right up!” line.

Another, perhaps safer option, is to have a girlfriend, friend of retarded monkey take the requests enthusiastically for you thereby rendering you all but innocent!

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In this video, Steve Angello shows you how he makes his tracks.

The video starts off a little slower but a minuet or two in he starts to get into a groove. Its incredible how quickly he can put a track together from scratch!

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Learn To DJ so that you understand the music and then you get into producing like Steve!

Part two of the video is below…

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