Electronic Music DJ Class | Seattle
Let's Go
- →Equipment, set up, and ready to go
- →Mixer essentials
- →Beats and bars
- →Intro to beat matching
- →The structure of electronic music
Arrangement of Electronic Music
- →Pitch and identifying dissonance (known as clashing)
- →Where to mix in and mix out
- →Differences you need to know between Trap/Bass and 'Four-On-The-Floor'
Building a Set
- →Tips on track choice
- →Tempo
- →Set order
- →Mix points
- →Teaser mixes
FX
- →Introduction to common FX
- →EQ
- →All about filtering
- →FX in the mix dos and don'ts
Our Pro Hardware & Software
- →Traktor S4 and S8
- →CDJ Nexus
- →Rekordbox
- →Rane Serato Scratch
- →Technics SL-1210 vinyl turntables
- →Mixed In Key
Your Set
- →Fine tuning your set
- →Mixing acapellas
- →Reading a crowd and having a 'plan b'
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
- →Body language behind the decks
Advanced Set Building & Ad-libbing
- →Out-of-the-box song choice
- →Tempo change tips
- →Music programming
Preparing for Your Show
- →Recording your set for submission
- →Marketing and promoting your gig
After Your Show at the Exchange
- →How to keep the momentum going and get more gigs
- →EPK tips
- →Developing your sound
In our students' words.
“It's a great program, you get to learn a lot within the days. The instructor was very patient and made the whole process of learning very easy for us. Glad i signed up.”
Zdenka Valentova
Some Instructors
Before you enrol.
Pioneer Nexus decks with Rekordbox, Serato, Traktor with S8 controllers, and even Technics 1200 vinyl decks.
It's structured in two stages, building from the fundamentals up to performing your own DJ slot at a club night, assuming you make the grade - every student so far has.
No - it works for total beginners as well as bedroom DJs wanting to formalize their skills.
It's genre-specific to popular electronic music, unlike the broader Underground DJ course.
Capped at five students per group.
Ready when you are.
InquireDJ Etiquette, and Your First 40-Minute Set
How to play a recorded 40-minute set like a gig, and the etiquette that gets you booked again: arrive early, respect the slot, and hand over without dead air.
Read →Hot Cues, Memory Cues and Active Loops: A Clean Mix on CDJs
Set hot cues, memory cues and active loops in rekordbox, format a USB any CDJ reads, set trim by the meters, and when to use quantize and master tempo.
Read →How to Set Up rekordbox and Take Your First Mix to the CDJs
Where DJs buy music, setting up rekordbox, fixing beat grids, the Camelot wheel, exporting to USB, and every control on a CDJ-3000 and a DJM mixer.
Read →Mixing Across Genres: Hard Cuts, Double Drops and Acapellas
How house, techno, drum & bass, hip-hop and disco each want to be mixed, plus clean hard cuts, swapping drops on the downbeat, and layering acapellas in key.
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