all i can say from my experience is that if you get 1 out of 5 after a month, you're a f**king GOD! DJing needs some serious practice...
Listen closely to those mixes that you like and try to find out why they are better than the others...without hearing you mix, we can't say what you are doing wrong.
And read this page:
http://dju.prodj.com/courses/club/

(I've posted this address like 14 times now, but every other day there is a thread like "newbie DJ needs help/want to learn beatmatching"; please also use the search function)

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How did your friend teach you? You might need to be untaught. But I bet one of the problems is your trying to mix completely different songs. To make it easier on you and the mix sound better, get songs similar so the mix is more together. Find transition points in your songs 'outros' and 'intros'. Study the songs before just jumping into the mix.

That's all I have for now.

ive said it before and i'll say it again.. practice practice practice practice

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ive said it before and i'll say it again.. practice practice practice practice

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got that rite
took me about half a year before i could put together like a one hour set with only 1 error or sumpin

no-one taught me tho

+ i love long long transitions

by now after 2 years hell i hardly make errors anymore....well

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Originally posted by rawkus rowan ive said it before and i'll say it again.. practice practice practice practice

Exactly!

i would suggest two things.

practice practice practice like everyone says.

and see if you can't rig up a way to record your set, so you can play it back. it will be easier to pick apart your mixing while listening to it than while mixing.

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"to be intoxicated is to feel sophisticated but not be able to say it"

start off with easy tracks to mix,, eg Hard house records.. no disrespect to Hard house djs ferige is wicked... but get some tracks that are kinda the same,, beat etc and get that going first.. going allout first up with insane trance tracks that have all kinds of build ups and break downs is gonna be hard and u will wonder"can i actually do this!!" its like trying to learning swimming in the deep end man.. not a good idea..

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Originally posted by Viceroy Exactly!

don't know how i managed to post that twice, oh well, got the message across!

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another way to begin djing is to see how a friend does, any copy it... 1-2 week like that and then start to mix at home..

listen to some of your favorite mixes and try to do the same thing on your decks..........i dont mean go out and end up spinning the same set.......i mean listen closely and see why those mixes/transitions worked so well. Then try to incorporate those techniques into your own mixes.

watching other dj's spin is a good way to learn to & its fun

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