Tips On How To Be A Professional DJ
A professional DJ must be open to all styles and types of music.
Get great tips on being a DJ in this free music career video from a professional DJ and music production instructor.
Cliff “DJ Hurricane” Melerine is the music production instructor at Scratch Miami.
He has more than 15 years experience performing, producing and engineering music.
Contact: www.myspace.com/hurricanedj
Filmmaker: Paul Muller
Categories: DJ Tips Tags: DJ, DJ Tips, Professional, Tips
Dance And Remixed Chart Hits – 2010
Compiled DJ Remix Song Lists For DJ’s – Spring 2010
1 BB PROJECT FEAT. JOCELYN BROWN – “Black Skinned, Blue Eyed Boys (Disco Heaven Edit)”
2 COPE – “Your Love Is Too Much (Rene Rodrigezz Remix)”
3 DISCO CELL – “Popcorn (2010 Club Mix)”
4 BORIS DLUGOSCH – “Bangkok (Original Mix)”
5 FUGATIVE – “Supafly (A1 Bassline Remix)”
6 DAVID GUETTA FEAT. WILL.I.AM & APL DE AP – “On The Dancefloor (Extended Mix)”
7 ERIK HASSLE – “Hurtful (Wideboys Club Mix)”
8 JUS JACK WITH PHIL GARANT FEAT. MATINA PARISI – “Smoke (Extended Mix Show Edit)”
9 LAZY RICH FEAT. KARLI – “Feel That Beat (Toby Emerson Remix)”
10 REMADY P&R – “No Superstar (Full Vocal Mix)”
11 RIHANNA FEAT. JEEZY – “Hard (Chew Fu Extended Mix)”
12 CANDI STATON – “Musical Freedom (Shapeshifters Big Fish, Little Fish Remix)”
13 YEAH YEAH YEAHS – “Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Club Mix)”
DJ Song Lists
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DJ Software – Virtual DJ
One Of The Best DJ Software Is Virtual DJ
Well I can say this DJ software has improved a lot in this new version and is one of the most popular.
It’s good for almost the whole range of DJ styles from beginners to pro to star DJ’s. VDJ, Club DJ, Mobile DJ or Turntablist can enjoy it.
Check out the bottom of this post for a cool video (first one).
Here are all the features:
- Twin independent zero-latency players with:
- Standard controls (play, pause, stop, cue)
- Volume control
- Pitch control (from -34 to +34%)
- 3 band equalizers with Kill + gain
- One-click beat matching and synchronisation (new FAME algorithm)
- BeatLock engine: your songs will always stay in time, and you can work your mixes incredibly faster than any other DJ could
- Automatic beat-matched crossfading
- On-the-fly automatic BPM calculation
- Automatic pitch matching
- Automatic level matching
- Automatic beat matching
- Dynamic beat visualizer for easy drag’n'drop beat-matching
- Real scratch simulation
- Virtual scratch: Scratch your mp3 with your bare hand
- Automatic beat-aware LOOP function
- Synchronised sampler with 12 instant slots
- Master Tempo pitch algorithm
- Automatic first beat and last beat detection
- Automatic 4/4 phase detection
- OSC network synchronisation
- Infinite number of beatlocked desks (local multi-instance or network)
- Infinite number of cue points saved per songs
- Beat-aware effect plugins (included: beatgrid, flippin, vocal remover, filter, flanger, backspin, brake, etc…)
- VST effects compatibility
- Video mix with TV output (mix songs and/or video clips !)
- Full karaoke support
- Proprietary of FreeFrame video effects
- Inifite number of video effect simultaneously
- DJ-adapted video transition plugins
- Song database engine with easy-to-use search feature
- CoverFlow or text-only song browsing
- Compatible with iTunes playlists
- ID3 compatibility
- Automatic filter folders
- Automatic Hot-Swap of external harddrives
- Ready-to-burn file recording to burn your own mixed CDs
- Broadcast on the Internet
- CD to MP3 encoder
- Optional 3D sound card, 2 sound cards or Y-splitter for real-time monitoring or external mixtable use
- ASIO soundcard compatibility
- Fully customisable (skin engine and shortcut macro enngine)
- External MIDI keyboard compatibility for shortcuts
- Compatibility with most external controllers (DMC2, DAC3, iCDX, TotalControl, BCD2000, DJConsole, etc…)
- Optional automatic mixing: Virtual DJ recognizes the style of the music (techno, hip hop, lounge) and adapt its mix in consequence
Plus on their site you can find skins, plugins, sound effects and drivers.
A couple of videos to give you an idea:
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For me personally I prefer Mixmeister.
Other Top Best DJ Software:
Traktor Pro
Mixmeister Fusion
Serato
Ableton
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Getting The People To Dance
Getting The People To Dance
Right here is a DJ tip when you got an empty dance floor, what to do?
See what kind of people and try to feel and be one of them.
Find and play an older track that you have seen on crowded dance floors before.
Play the famous old dancing track and you will see the people will start to trickle onto the dance floor.
Be sure you are playing the right style for the kind of people there.
Throw in more older tracks of the same style. Or try a recent remix or mashup of the older hits.
When you got the floor hot then mix a recent new track then throw in a spanking new track .
So you don’t look that you are outdated.
Most probably the crowd on the floor will thin out, if not continue on the new music, but if so then back down to the older tracks to keep the place warm.
Sometimes when playing brand new music, the people just don’t know the music and so things can be cold and the dancing just won’t start.
If you got some friends, tell them to be on dance floor till it packs up.
You can also try the Electric Slide Dance if the music just wont start it up.
Another way to get your guests dancing is to dance yourself !
Let’s dance!
Peace
DJ White Hawk
