Educational Services
DJ Lessons
Become a master of the versatile instrument of our time. Many hard rock/metal/pop/hip-hop bands are now touring with a DJ! With some professional instruction, you can give yourself and incredible edge as you enter this incredibly lucrative hobby. Soon you will have enough skills to perform in a band, club or party setting
Syllabus (what you will learn):
- Familiarizing yourself with standard DJ equipment, hardware and terminology (including: turntables, mixers, upfaders, crossfaders, curve control, pitch control, EQ, time-encoded vinyl, and DJ software).
- You will learn the art of Beat Mixing and Matching (manipulation the speed of two different records to get them to play in time).
- You were learn how to listen for beat structure to quickly find mixing points so that your musical selections will flow from one song to the next.
- You will learn basics to advance scratching techniques so that you can compose rhythmic music on the fly (including: scribbles, flares, chirps, transforms, crabs and more).
- You will learn how to beat juggle (This is improvising beat creation with 2 copies of the same record - rearranging the kicks and snares of a drum "break" with your hands to create a new manipulated beat).
- You will learn how to put together and perform the ultimate DJ set (including techniques on how to record your sets for archival or distribution purposes).