| If you love music and parties, a career as a DJ may | | | | to your DJ ears. |
| be the right choice for you. However, you may not | | | | 3- Go through step 2 each month with new music, so |
| know where start and who to talk to. Unfortunately | | | | you get to know all your tracks like second nature, and |
| enough DJ schools don't exist, so you must know that | | | | the mixing just flows effortlessly. The key to good live |
| one of the major ways to learn is practice: | | | | mixing is knowing your music like the back of your |
| Now, this may seem obvious, but to get good as a DJ | | | | hand. Knowing which track works well together, and |
| you should be practicing a little every day. | | | | which ones don't. |
| Even if you have been doing this for years, don't think | | | | 4- Learn how to scratch, no matter what genre you |
| you can get away with practicing, mixing and | | | | are into. A well placed scratch routine shows you |
| scratching on the weekends only. | | | | have diversity, and helps bring vitality and energy into a |
| 1- Practice for at least an hour every day. It keeps | | | | set. It's also great to watch, and one thing that |
| your skill sharp.Try also to play with new ideas to keep | | | | separates a good DJ from a great one is his or her |
| yourself interested. | | | | ability to put on a show for the people in the club. |
| 2- If the mixing of two tracks goes well, try it again a | | | | 5- Create a 2 hour set on feeling, without planning the |
| couple of times in different ways. Try different EQ | | | | tracks. Pull music that you think will work well and |
| settings, different timings and so on to see what | | | | tracks that you think could sound well together. Veriety |
| works best. If the mixing goes bad then you should try | | | | is the key. Make it spontaneous, because that will be |
| it even more until you get something that sounds good | | | | the way you may have to do it in a nightclub setting. |