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!
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! Read the rest of this entry »
A lot of the Learn To Dj Fast students ask me what my DJing dream was when I started. This video pretty much sums up the dream that I had when I was starting out so I wanted to share it with you!
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DJs are the new rockstars. DJs like Tiesto are filling stadiums that legendary bands like U2 and the Rolling Stones couldn’t even fill up. DJs are being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for gigs. 500,000+ people attend Dance Music festivals like Miami’s WMC each year to see DJs like you!
In this video, Dj James Zabiella is holding the camera while DJing at a beach party during the WMC Miami this past March. Check out all of the girls in the crowd watching him. When he looks to the right you will see the legendary BBC Radio 1 DJ, Pete Tong. The best part is the the buildup finishes and the crowd ERUPTS!
This can all be yours too. Every week there are more and more parties just like this one around the world that need DJs like you to play! Read the rest of this entry »
To learn to dj like a pro you will have to train like a pro dj. What does this mean?
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Lets take a look at 5 of the top pro athletes in the world right now: Tiger Woods, Lebron James, Syndey Crosby, Wayne Rooney and Payton Manning. These guys are the top of their field and live their dream lives and yet they all still swear by a number of things: The first is coaching. Even the best have coaches to make their learning process easier and faster. They all have training aids such as videos. They all study other great players in history.
My point here is that if you want to be a HUGE pro DJ, follow the footsteps of the pro DJs that have already made it. There are TONS of resources out there for DJs. There are dj videos, dj manuals, dj guides, dj books, dj dvds, in person dj lessons, online dj academies and even biographies on successful DJs now and from the past.
Get out to parties, nightclubs and raves by yourself. Hang around the DJ booth and watch the DJs mixing. You’ll learn a TON. Check what dj equipment they are using. CDJs? DJ Turntables? DJ software like Ableton Live or Serato… How are they mixing? How much time do they spend looking at the crowd? What are they looking for?
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:
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.
Access Unprecedented Music Variety: Mix and scratch over 100 individual songs…
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“.
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.
The New York Times published a rather heart-warming tale about how the numbers of aspiring DJs out there has gone up significantly since the economy went belly up.
Apparently workers who have been laid off recently are considering new careers doing something that they really like, and DJing happens to be high on the list of many people’s dream jobs.
New York DJ schools dubspot and Scratch DJ Academy have experienced a large increase in students (dubspot’s enrollment numbers have doubled), with many of their new students having been made redundant.
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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