How long did you practice at home or at small parties before you played at a club or at a real event?

I’ve been spinning for about 3-4 months. I think I’m getting pretty good . . . I play at least 1.5 hours a day after work, and a couple hours per day on the weekends. I learned to beat match maybe 90% flawlessly within 5 days of starting. I spun at a party at my house last week, and did really well, despite having a few drinks and people talking to me and bumping me and stuff. I got another gig at a friends party in a few weeks, probably for 50-60 people.

Anyway, my friend has good connections with a local club owner, and I may have an opportunity to play in the lounge area soon. It’s not my club of choice, but I’ll take what I can get right now.

I know I’m not ready yet, but was just wondering how long other people waited. I wasn’t nervous at all playing at my party, but I don’t want to mess up at a club and ruin my reputation and confidence at my first gig.

been spinnin month and a half
got 3 parties in november
gonna fux em up mayb

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honestly..wait as long as u can..because playing at home..and playing for more then 10 people is completly different..

I never planned on playing out anytime soon, but I've been getting alot of encouragement to do so since my party. I figure I'll do a few parties, then maybe next spring summer, try to get a gig and one of the smaller clubs around here.

you have to think you're ready
if you don't think you're ready, then you're going to go to that club and prolly mess up cause you're in that mindset

as for the question, i think it was like 3 months after i started that i played out the first time

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In my opinion parties don't even compare to playing at clubs. People at parties know nothing about mixing. You fuck up at a club, its gonna be bad from the crowd.

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Dunno, maybe 3 weeks after I first started practicing I had to play on a major trance event. The dj before me f*cked up bad, so the people thought my stuff was pretty good

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Originally posted by Devbert In my opinion parties don't even compare to playing at clubs. People at parties know nothing about mixing. You fuck up at a club, its gonna be bad from the crowd.

True. ALthough the party I'm spinning at in November will be a bunch of experienced clubbers . . .

i been spinnin for about 6 months, and sumtime soon, i'll be playin a school party with about 150 people!

I didn't spin out until almost a year after I started djing at home. Since then I have improved so much too. If you think that you are ready to play out, then record a mix live, with transitions that you haven't practiced before and see how good they are when you listen to them in headphones. If the transitions are flawless, then you're good to go, if not, then back to practising. I would also post the mix so that others can critique it. Even if you think it's a great mix, someone is always bound to know more about music mixing etc. than you do and can offer up some advice. It was many months of mixing until I started learning about the science behind the music that I was spinning. That helped me learn a LOT about how to mix.

yea, start recording every time you mix, try new things and see how they sound after

i do this almost every time i play
i record it and take a listen later on and pick it apart and see what sounds good together and what doesn't, as well as track selection
does the set flow nicely?
should certain records be only played near teh start or the finish of the set?

be very critical of yourself
pass a copy onto someone who will critique it as well (like on here)

speaking of which... i should spin a set and post it here

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i didn't start spinning out at a club or rave until 1.5 - 2 years after i started spinning

granted i played house parties and things like that before, i don't consider that 'playing out'

i wouldn't suggest jumping the gun when wanting to spin out...
you might think that you're really good now, but that could be inexperience talking...i know with me that's exactly what happened
i recorded a mix a year after i started spinning and thought it was absolutely amazing at the time...but i listen to it now and it was absolute shit

and if you spin out to early and fuck up, you'll get really discouraged and potentially tarnish your name...which either means you'll have to work twice as hard to build up your reputation because of that shitty performance...or you'll have to take the easy road and change your dj name

my suggestion...practice practice and practice some more
then when you think you're good enough...practice some more

then when you spin out you won't have to work your ass off to get booked because you'll be such a sensation that promoters will be coming to you

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