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Originally posted by BOOsTER one thing that comes on my mind is, that you could ask Rob to take you on a gig and give you microphone to speak to the crowd and kind of "moderate" his show-off...that way you'll taste the feeling of standing in front of the crowd and how great is it to interact and maybe then you'll get enough passion to practice everytime you have a few moments of free time. how it happend to me was that I was asked to DJ on a party for people from our local chat here...it was quite exciting though I didn't want to say yes...they made me agree at the end though...and I went there totally unprepared (never DJ'd before) and I can tell you, the party was a blast, though I used ableton to mix (is it considered cheating? hope not), and not real decks, I loved how I could make the crowd do everything I like and when I was at the end people shouted my name asking me to play more and so on...that was damn great, since that time I bought a laptop, midi controller, some FXs etc... and now I play regularly here as a resident DJ (though I don't think I'm good enough to TA standards, they like me here) so that's about everything...maybe it could help you actually tasting the feeling of the DJ on a party...is a great motivation...

You know what? This guy is actually right!!
No it's not cheating. Its like next level djing.
It's where it is going & foward thinking people like Chris liebing (the best dj in the world/catch him live)
& Speedy j (the best producer in the world/go out & buy all his albums)
have already gone there.

Turntables & cd turntables do have limitations.
So why worry about phase cancelations, frequencies clashing with each other
and creative energy being wasted for the sakes of mixing when you can jump to the good stuff right away.
Boot up live and a proper midi controller and blow up a party!
Be carefull though while a good party will give you inspiration a horrible one will fucking' do the opposite and it don't feel good eighter

Now if you are djing traditionaly as far as I am conserned until you get to the point where
you are happy with your mixing you need to put in the REAL hours.
And once you get there you can do half hour sessions to further develop it.
A good drummer spends countless of hours locked in his basement banging away trying to seperate his foot from his hands.
Spliting your hand and your kick is a skill that doesn't happen within half an hour sessions unless you are a drum machine.
Same with djing.
The human brain tends to want to do only one thing @ a time.

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Originally posted by harriz Find a day you dont have to do anything and do a continious 8 hour marathon. Plan the first 2 1/2 hours and then inprovise. Split cuing happens ONLY with long periods of mixing. You can go on for years with short 1/2 hour sets here and there and never get it. In order for this to work breaks are not allowed. Meaning this has to happen all in one shot!

8 hours in one go!? i think most ears will tire out within 2 hours if they aren't used to it...not to mention concentrating at the end of an 8 hour set is near impossible...veteran dj or not.

but still, lotsa good pointers in that post.

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If someone is struggling to learn I don't think an 8 hour marathon will magically transform them into a mixing machine.

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Originally posted by Zild If someone is struggling to learn I don't think an 8 hour marathon will magically transform them into a mixing machine.

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If only it were that EASY

my thoughts on this. If you really want to do it, then you will do it. My average weekday consists of 12.5 hours away from home (work). Of the remaining 11.5 hours i need to sleep, so thats at least 7.5 hours. Gives me 4 hours of free time each evening, out of that i have to eat and shower (1 hour). So I get 3 hours to do what i want each evening, most of the time I'm just too tired to mix (you have to be awake and alert otherwise you will be shit IMO), but last night i managed 2.5 hours. I try to get in at least 30 mins each night.

And lets stop calling it practice, makes it sound like a chore, and no one likes chores

Enjoy what you're doing, and if you're having an off night, just put the tools down and leave it for another time, dont force yourself to mix, it wont make you any better

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