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Need tips for DJing. It's my first time DJing (pg. 2)
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| progressivepey |
here what you do..
put a tiesto cd on, put some records on there to make it look good, and just bs the whole thing man. two months is not enough time to learn how to mix, no matter how many trance songs you've produced.
if you want people to respect you as a dj, then learn how to mix records, then perform. if they see you up there trainwrecking the whole performance, there is little chance for you to make it in the future.
just some things to think about..
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| flavdave |
| Good luck, man. You are going to need it unless you start practicing for several hours everyday until the gig. Did you tell the people that you had never DJed before? If so, then they are stupid for hiring you to spin for 4 hours. I think if you do this gig and you don't perform that well, then that is more of their problem than yours. I hope all goes well. |
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| nectario |
LOL Thanks guys! To make matters worse, I wont be spinning trance only here is the breakdown
Vocal Trance: 65%
House 15%
Hip Hop 5%
Psy Trance: 15%
So the face that there are different styles makes it hard. Hip hop and house was their request... |
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| trancinchink |
| quote: | Originally posted by nectario
LOL Thanks guys! To make matters worse, I wont be spinning trance only here is the breakdown
Vocal Trance: 65%
House 15%
Hip Hop 5%
Psy Trance: 15%
So the face that there are different styles makes it hard. Hip hop and house was their request... |
uh... u could scratch out of the hip hop and drop in the edm. and from there u can take from house, to vocaltrance/trance, and then psytrance. that seems to be a pretty decent progression. just wondering, where is ur gig, i see ur located in nj. |
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| nectario |
Wow thanks for all the input, advice and wishes! I'll need it. The gig is located in Jamaica Queens, New York. Actually they are not paying me, so I am really doing this for free...
The crowd age is from 14 to 18 and it's for this youth group. Ok ok, it's ebarassing but here we go:
My twin brother happens to be a priest of a church, and the youth group wants to have their party so they were looking to hire a DJ. But my brother goes: "Hey, you create some great music, why dont you spin for the youth party? I'm sure they'll love you..."
Whatever the crowd, there will be 200+ teenagers eager to listen to trance... So that's the whole story... They have never heard trance, much less Psy trance, so it will be a bit of a shock. Since in the previous parties they had rap and hip hop...
So at least even if the mix is not perfect, it may not be as noticed.. :-) |
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| DannyO |
| 2 months like said, just isn't enough, congrats on getting the gig though, this could maybe lead to better things, my advice to you is, start practicing and maybe you'll be one of the lucky few that can pick it up REAL fast, then do one of the following, either get Traktor and make a long set using legit music and record it, then play it in the club and pretend its you doing it, I know thats pretty gay, but in your situation I think its a good one, or get lots of trance that has parts in it with no beat, then when it goes into this part at the end of the song, fade into the next song, it won't sound good but I doubt anyone there will notice, and its still better than a trainwreck, but keep us upto date on what your doing man, best of luck. |
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| djlemeir |
dude, u have practicly nothing to woorry about...
add me on msn already ill tell u few tricks
its just too hard over the forums |
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| Inertia |
| quote: | Originally posted by progressivepey
two months is not enough time to learn how to mix, no matter how many trance songs you've produced.
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i disagree with this. if he puts in 2 hours of practice every single day, that is 120 hours of spinning he can get. sure, he won't me nailing mixes like Sasha, but he can actually learn to mix decently in 2 months of intense practice. you might be surprised how a person with a lot of interest (and a little talent can't hurt either) can master mixing quickly. at the end of the day, sure, it's no cakewalk wither, but putting one record over another is not that hard. just takes learning to get the "vibe" from it. then, and you know this, it comes out second nature. |
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| nectario |
| quote: | Originally posted by djlemeir
dude, u have practicly nothing to woorry about...
add me on msn already ill tell u few tricks
its just too hard over the forums |
Thanks man! I'll sure add you... I'd love to have a chat sessin with you. :-)
Thanks again! |
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| benoitfan |
hmmm as said before, 2 months really isn't much time; some tips:
- you'll need to get EQing down real good 'cos in a loud system any dramatic loss of sound is much more noticeable than when you're spinning at home. Will the mixer be the same? 'Cos they all have different EQ knobs...
- Try to avoid annoying habits (but that are common when you're starting) like cutting the bass all the time and using flangers.
- I don't know if you're aware but in trance the bass switch works really well so what I suggest you to do is to swap the basses at the end of a phrase instead of gradually increasing/decreasing each one.
- Starting in hip-hop for warm-up may be a good idea 'cos kids might be more familiar with that and dance to it, then move on to house, then trance, then psy, because that way you can create a better journey as the BPM in house is lower than in trance and you can spin all of EDM without ever stopping to switch genres.. find good transition tracks, house tracks with a trancey feeling, trance with psy feeling etc to make it sound smoother.
- I don't know if you're using CDs or Vinyl but I'm not that sure that you'll get beatmatching down in 2 months that well so I suggest you to do short mixes, like 64 beats or something, as long mixes are easier to up correcting etc. Cue the incoming track a little bit further, like on the 65th beat instead of the 1st so that the set doesn't loose energy. Don't mess around too much with tricks, like cutting, delays etc if you don't know what you're doin'. Keeping it simple is sometimes the best way.
The good news are.. you'll be spinning to a crowd that will hardly notice if you up. I was at a party just last saturday with a DJ that supposedly had been DJing for 4 years, well every transition was a trainweck, the beats were NEVER in sync and he just faded the track like 30 seconds later when he realized that it was . The crowd couldn't tell though,they were just dancing (although they didn't know how to dance to that lol) as if he was Sasha. He also had the annoying habit of cutting the bass every 2 beats, and used a WAH effect in his CDJ-100s every 8 beats. VERY annoying. This was to like 300 people all around 20-25, so you can see how dumb they can get :p
So most teens won't notice though, but of course you want better than that and I wish you good luck with that! ;) |
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| beats and beeps |
Just, no matter what happens, act like everything is alright. They wont know any better. They arent like...trancEaddicts or something.
EDIT: Another thing, this may have been mentioned earlier in the thread, but if so, i missed it. Do you know what kind of equipment you will be using? |
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| DJFreaq |
My first dj gig consisted of using a computer with traktor and playing mostly hip-hop and pop, and only one of my turntables was working and I had about 5 records at the time.
I was the best dj they had ever had. But it wasn't a big crowd. Don't sweat it, practice and you'll be fine. |
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