Screw Up A Mix – Do You Try Again, or Not? If you’re doing this with other DJs, it’s also a good chance to hear new music and learn new techniques by watching other people mix. If you make DJing a social activity, it’s easy to get more hours in without setting aside tons of time for yourself.
My answer was simple: take every opportunity you can to mix songs together.
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One of my friends recently started learning how to DJ and asked for advice on how to build her skill set in a short amount of time. Play For/With Friends photo credit: Alex-de-Haas via photopin It can be distracting to constantly be watching the viewer count, so try not to focus on that. The current state of streaming on many platforms encourages very casual consumption (on Facebook, it’s not uncommon to watch a stream for less than 30 seconds). The online streaming landscape is constantly changing – but we recommend using services like Chew.TV (dedicated for DJ sets) or Restream.IO (allows you to broadcast one stream to many platforms) when setting up your streaming set.īe careful to not put too much stock into how well you “capture” a crowd on a stream.
Streaming your set online is a great way to have an actual audience – it’s a bit like the recording yourself tip above, except there’s additional pressure because you are actually competing for attention and getting feedback from listeners. Recording your mixes is something every DJ should be doing! Streaming Your Set After that I was then concentrating on using effects to make bigger build-ups and aid my transitions even further. My transitions became a lot more seamless even without the use of filters and it became second nature to me. Needless to say I was able to eliminate the mistakes I had when setting my frequencies in the mixer. When I was finally at a venue I still felt the jitters but only before I pressed play, after that it felt like I was just recording another mix at home. Not only was I able to catch mistakes and less than appropriate decisions I had taken during the mix (like mixing in a track prematurely or late) but it also gave me confidence to start going out to play. After a while I began to take a closer look at the decisions I was making while the recorder was on and this lead me to get my game up progressively. When I made mistakes I actually felt embarrassed even if I was alone.
At the time I was not playing in front of anyone, not even friends and so visualizing the recorder in Traktor as my audience made me focus a lot more when mixing. This may sound weird but I treated the recorder as my audience. There was a great comment on the article that really captures this idea: Beyond being great for self-analysis for skill level and a wonderful way to remember and document your technical development and musical taste, recording yourself DJing is a way to emulate the pressure of a live audience. Record Yourself – Emulated Pressure photo credit: charlesdyer via photopinīack in 2012, we published an article on how recording your sets is a critical habit for any DJ to get into. So what are the best ways to get that same positive nervousness and tension that you experience when playing in front of a crowd? Keep reading for some great ideas. It’s a challenge, particularly for DJs that don’t have weekly or monthly residencies locked down. As a DJ, one of the most difficult skills to learn is how to play to a crowd.
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