Want to know how to be a disk jockey? You came to the right place!
Every day there are thousands of people looking for info on how to become a disk jockey. The bad news is that these aspiring DJs stumble into bad information and it ends up stalling their progress with learning to DJ.
Look up “how to be a disk jockey” or check out any message forum and you’ll quickly realize how scattered the DJing advice is out there. And I can relate, when I was getting started learning to be a disk jockey I couldn’t find a comprehensive list of steps to take to become a Disk Jockey.
The good news is that becoming a disk jockey is a lot easier than you think. Heres how to be a disk jockey:
As if you needed another reason to want to learn how to become a DJ (girls, celebrity status, make money & have fun, share the music you love – that isn’t enough?) it dawned on me a while ago that DJs will always have jobs available to them. While most industries flourish during good times and pull back in bad, DJing and the nightlife industry just chugs right along, party by party.
What makes the DJing industry so resilient? How is it that your parents might be afraid of getting laid off (or have already been laid off) but there are more DJ booths for you to man than ever? The reason is simpler than you think:
This is one of the many little tricks I teach in my Pro DJ Mixing: Quick & Easy video series but DJing For Dummies does it with a vinyl record and pioneer cdj. Prety cool stuff.
Everyone thats learning to DJ has to be able to tell which song they are mixing is going faster than the other. And to be honest its not an easy thing to be able to tell which song is going faster and if the song you’re listening to in your headphones is faster or slower than the track playing out loud in your dj mix.
This dj training video shows you a little trick that new DJs use to learn how to DJ a lot quicker. It eliminates the guess work out of knowing if the song in your headphones is faster or slower than the song playing out loud.
Ironically the best DJ booth to play in the world doesn’t exist except for 7 days of the year somewhere in the Black Rock Desered in the South of Nevada. And the funny thing is that it isn’t just one DJ booth, there are like 30 amazing DJ booths with packed dancefloors for 7 days straight!
This paradise is known as Burning Man and its one of the craziest parties in the world. 50,000 people drive, walk and even skydive into the middle of one of the dryest deserts in the world to camp for 7 days over September long week. Its a music, art and expression festival where anything and EVERYthing goes.
And the best part is that its such an amazing party, with 50,000 partiers all going off together that some of the world’s top DJs come to Burning Man to play for free. Thats right Free. Armin Van Buuren, Carl Cox, Bassnectar, Tiesto and other top names have all made appearances at Burning Man just to be a party of the energy.
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I just saw this really funny video that someone made of Tiesto trainwrecking. Its funny because its fake. First Tiesto would never play “Scatman”. Second DJ Tiesto has been DJing for almost 30 years now. Do you really think he would trainwreck that badly?
For those of you that may not know, a trainwreck is a DJ playing two songs live at the same time with them going out of beat. The beats are not aligned and as a result the sounds of the two songs clash. See 1:24 of this video for an example of a DJ trainwreck!
Now while this video is funny it brings up an issue that a lot of new DJs will face. Whoever dubbed the fake mixing over top of the video is hating on Tiesto. A lot of people actually believe that its Tiesto mixing. The video creator is trying to be funny but he’s also hating on Tiesto.
The issue of DJ hating was touched on by DJ Steve Angello just a few weeks ago when he said “let the haters hate”.
This is a continuation from the last post about DJ Steve Angello fake DJ mixing. Its a post about how to DJ if you’re going to DJ with just software.
Lets face it, as DJ technology progresses so too does the ability for new DJs like us to learn how to DJ mix quickly and put together some sweet mixes. It also allows you to auto-beatmatch so you can chat up that really cute and slightly-tipsy girl thats been hanging around the DJ booth giving you the f*ck me eyes. Like most advancements in technology there are improvements. DJing is no different.
After posting the last video of DJ Kaskade on tour in Brazil that showcases the DJ lifestyle, I had a How To DJ Fast follower email me with another video from Kaskade where hes talking about DJing.
First of all, Kaskade doesn’t drink and doesn’t do drugs so you know he’s into the scene for the right reasons. And in this video interview you can really tell. He loves DJing, producing and interacting with his fans so much.
My favorite part of the video is when DJ Kaskade talks about when he was learning how to DJ he would hear about all of the big club names like Ministry Of Sound and that now he’s playing them. Unreal!
I was talking with a DJ Producer friend yesterday that is huge. His DJing schedule is one constant world tour and he really is living the dream! He plays in places like Ibiza all the time at all of the biggest and best clubs. And he gets to work in the studio with some of the top artists in the world. He’s good friends with all of the top names and he gets paid a lot to DJ.
Dijing has obviously been great to him. He’s really involved with some big record labels and he had some DJ advice to pass along to me on how to become a Dj – a big name superstar DJ!
Now this advice may be getting ahead of where you’re at now. I just wanted to throw it out there before I forget so that you’ll have it in mind as your DJing progresses.
Its widely known that to become a DJ – a big touring professional DJ – you need to produce your own tracks. Making the tracks in the studio is fun but promoting them and getting them signed to labels can be a ton of work! Read the rest of this entry »
A lot of new DJs ask me how they can make their own beats. Thats called being a music producer and its a lot different from being a DJ. Both require completely different skillsets and personal strengths yet both are crucial for your success as a professional DJ.
When I was learning how to dj there was nothing that got me more excited than watching a huge DJ rock it out to a huge dance floor of screaming fans. Standing beside, behind or in the DJ booth while a huge crowd freaked out over the DJ’s every move really inspired to become a DJ.
Even now, after I’ve been DJing for 10 year and have played tons of huge DJ gigs to thousands of people screaming their heads off, watching videos of the top DJs playing to huge crowds sends chills down my spine. Theres something about 1 man creating such a frenzy with a big crowd just by playing the music he loves that makes my heart sing!
I’m sure you are similar so I wanted to track down the best youtube videos taken from the DJ booths at some of the craziest and biggest parties in the world. You’ll see everything from a 100,000 person party in Buenos Aires, Argentina to an intimate party high up on a ski hill in the Swiss Alps Mountains.
So I set out to track down the top DJ booth videos online. If you have found a dj booth video that gets you fired up then please share it in the comments below! It would incredible if this page became a page that people passed around because it has all of the best, crazy DJ booth videos.
Here are the top 10 Dj booth videos:
# 10. Casual Ski Party In The Alps
This video is pretty chill. You aren’t going to see 50,000 DJ fans freaking out on the dancefloor. But what you will see is three of the best tech house DJs in the world (Ricardo Villalobos, Luciano and Loco Dice) mixing for a smaller crowd at the very top of a ski hill at the very top of the Alps (Crans-Montana Switzerland at 2300m). Read the rest of this entry »
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