5 quick tips for aspiring d js
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The document provides essential tips for aspiring DJs, emphasizing the importance of starting with a simple setup and the value of playing long sets to gain experience. It encourages DJs to follow their instincts to stand out and to see themselves as a product that offers something unique to promoters and clubbers. Additionally, it advises opening acts to play to their role and build their reputation for future opportunities.
5 quick tips for aspiring d js
- 1. 5 Quick Tips For Aspiring DJs Start with the basics Follow your heart 03Play all night long 01 02 04 05Establish yourself There's a wide choice of hard and software in the DJ market. Plenty of tools, all promising to give you better “skills”. The best advice I can give to aspiring DJs is to pick a very simple set-up. Two CD players or turntables, a mixer with basic EQs and maybe a few effects - filter, delay, echo, that's more than enough. A very good way to learn about DJing is to play long sets. These nights teach you a lot about the full range of DJing. How to start a night, how to build it up, how to keep the energy and crowd during peak-time and how to finish it. It's the unexpected that grows your skills and experience. There’s always a trend going on but if you play what everyone else is playing, how will you stand out from the crowd? Try to stand out and follow your gut instinct, that's 80% of the battle. If you're an opening act, play an opening set. Don't try to be a headliner when the club has just opened. If you do your job well, people will call you back because they know you are dependable. One day, you might become that headliner DJ. You need to see yourself as more than just a DJ. You need to see yourself as a product. When people buy a product, they want to know what they're getting and that they're getting what they paid for. Decide what you're going to offer and do it well. If you do so, people such as promoters, and most importantly clubbers, who share your taste, will become interested. Know your role WWW.ROUCHOS.COM