How to Be a Professional DJ

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What is A DJ?

A DJ is a Disk Jockey is a professional who knows what music to play for a specific event, how to program (set-lists) good sets of songs one right after another, and knows how to transition smoothly from one song to another using crossfading or beat mixing. People playing iPods through computer speakers are calling themselves DJ's nowadays. Unfortunately the industry is being saturated by want to-be DJ's trying to make a few bucks who are not investing in the proper training and equipment.

The Love Of Music.

If you are new to the industry but really love all types of music, you're off to a great start. However appreciating music and knowing how to mix on decent equipment are two completely separate animals. Anyone can appreciate and play songs on an iPod but an effective DJ will have a wide variety of music, reliable equipment, and needs to have to have the ability to musically format a party. Many people who want to learn to DJ are unaware of other important components.

Where to Start.

If someone made the decision to learn to DJ, they probably have decent knowledge of music and already maintain a large database of music for their iPods/iPads or laptop hard drives There are basically 3 ways to play that music (in audio file format) that is already owed. The music can be burned onto a CD and played via a CD deck and CD deck controller, the music can be played directly through a laptop with DJ software, or the files can be played through DJ laptop software with the use of an external mixing controller to manipulate the files.

The Advantages of a Digital DJ Music System.

Any one of these options will be sufficient, but the digital DJ music system (no CD's, a device that plays audio files like a laptop or physical media player) seems to be becoming most popular. Carrying a pocket sized 500gig external hard drive is much easier to carry than 2 heavy cases of CD's. Another advantage of playing on a digital DJ music system is having the ability to find a song within seconds instead of manually sifting through CD's to find specific songs.

Mixing and Cuing Songs

Once a DJ chooses the music system to play the audio files through, a mixer must be purchased. The music/media player will connect to the mixer. The mixer will allow the DJ to control the volume of the 2 channels from the player. Most DJ mixers will also have a slider to transition from one song to another. It is also important to have headphones and the ability to cue songs (listen to songs in headphones and while not going through the speakers).

Cuing a song is crucial to knowing the right song has been selected and is also important to use for beat mixing music. While beat mixing, a DJ will have one song playing through the speakers, will cue up a second song in the second channel, listen and match the beat of the new song in the headphones, and then raise the main volume on the track. There is nothing more exhilarating than pounding a great mix, even for the pros!

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