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 at The Knitting Factory. 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!

This course is an EDM-free zone, and we have a separate EDM DJ course for fans of more commercial electronic music. Before we were fortunate enough to have the demand to run genre-specific DJ courses, our generic courses often resulted in instructors who could never be suitable for all the learners’ music tastes; you had to be lucky to get the right instructor. But now, we are thrilled to now be able to offer a fully comprehensive Underground DJ course where everyone is on the same page!

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

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

If you have any questions, feel free to send us a message or call (347) 746-4604. To go ahead and book, you can use the button below, and we’ll look forward to seeing you soon.

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