Underground DJ Course
Underground DJ Course
Underground House and Techno DJ Course | New York
If you’re serious about House and Techno, and want to learn in groups of no more than four from a DJ plugged in to NYC’s underground music scene, this fully comprehensive Underground DJ course for you. Those over 21 who make the grade will be invited to play at our club night. Our DJ lab has the industry standard Pioneer Nexus decks with Rekordbox, which you would expect to find in most respectable venues. Learning how to DJ should be FUN – not frustrating!
Edit: Now the genre lines are blurred more than they were back in the mid 2010s, we have consolidated to just one Electronic DJ Course. Click here to see it.
101
Let’s Go
- Equipment, set up, & ready to go
- Mixer essentials
- Beats & bars
- Intro to beat matching
Arrangement of Underground Electronic Music
- Pitch and identifying dissonance (known as clashing)
- All about tune structure and why you need to know about it
- Where to mix in and out
Building a Set
- Tips on track choice
- Tempo
- Set order
- Mix points
FX
- Introduction to common FX
- EQ
- All about filtering
- FX in the mix dos and don’ts
Hardware & Software
- Pioneer CDJ Nexus
- Rekordbox
- Mixed In Key
201
Your Set
- Fine tuning your set
- Body language behind the decks
- Mixing acapellas
Advanced Mixing & Digital Tricks
- Sampling and triggering
- All about delay and reverb in the mix
- Looping and making your own mash-ups on the fly
- Impact mixing with levels and FX
Advanced Set Building & Ad-libbing
- Out-of-the-box song choice
- Tempo change tips
- Music programming, set times
- Reading a crowd and having a ‘plan b’
Preparing For A Show
- Preparing your set
- Recording your set
- Marketing and promoting your gig
What Next?
- Marketing tips
- How to get more gigs
- EPK tips
- Developing your sound
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