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DJ Tips By Armin van Buuren

How To DJ with Armin van Buuren, World’s Number One DJ

See the tricks and techniques that have put him on top.

A mixture of general DJ advice and showing how he uses cue points on the CDJ1000s together with some of the basic effects on the DJM800 mixer.

There is a part 2, follow it through in the video.

Cheers

How to DJ: Success On The Decks

The Insider’s  DJ Guide to Success

• How to DJ is the insider’s guide to becoming a professional DJ.
• Top advice on how to DJ, from selecting what to play to getting gigs to keeping your audience dancing.
• What you need and how to set it up.
• How to rise to the top in the DJ music business.
• How to make hit records at home

How to DJ: The Insider’s Guide to Success on the Decks

DJ Secrets Revealed!

Some Great Secret Club DJ Tips

Discover The Proven Secrets Of DJ Skills And Techniques We Have Known For Years.

I recently discovered the world of Club DJ’ing. Club DJ’ing involves playing your favorite music at a nightclub, and getting paid for doing it. There are many people who make a good living working as professional Club DJs.

I came across a guide written by a successful nightclub DJ, that goes over how the whole business works.

I was really impressed by the contents of the guide. It explains all the “do’s and don’ts” of Nightclub DJ ing and gives tips and techniques on how to get started working as a DJ at a nightclub.

To anyone who wants to learn how to become a club DJ, I highly recommend this guide. You can read more about it here:

DJ Secrets Revealed! Boost Your Learning Curve & Put DJs To Shame.

Nightclub DJ’ing Is One Of The Hottest Professions Around, And Its Popularity Keeps Growing.

How To Make A Good DJ Playlist

DJ PlayList

Aspiring DJs should build a great library of music FIRST.

YOU MUST KNOW YOUR MUSIC

• Know the BPM of your songs

Beats Per Minute. Arranging your dance music this way creates consistency in tempo and provides better continuity for people who are dancing.

• Know the harmony notes of beginning and end of songs

You can find software for that too. Here is one new software which I haven’t checked out yet but I won’t need it anyway for myself. Mixed In Key. I use Mixmeister Fusion which has all those features. It’s a great DJ software.

More about harmony mixing here at DJ Prince

• Trim your songs

Long fade outs or talking and skits at the end can be trimmed.

A good piece of free software for trimming unwanted bits from the beginning and end of songs is   Mp3Trim or   Mp3Directcut ( is my preferred one).

If you use Wav files then try Audacity but don’t convert to another format. Always keep your original files backed up.

• Normalize your songs

Normalizing your songs will bring the volume levels in line with each other, so that the volume stays fairly consistent.
An easy way to normalize a collection of MP3s is to use a free piece of software called  Mp3Gain . For Wav files you can use Audacity.

• Select and combine

Select tracks into the same BPM harmoniously if possible. If harmony can’t be done then just beat match it and that should be OK.

Keep building the playlist.

• Building A CD Mix?
  

Try this!

First track should be an instrumental (no vocals) and the duration shorter than 2 minutes 30 seconds.

Second track should have vocals and should not be longer than 4 minutes.

All  the rest of the tracks should be less than 5 minutes each.

• Take in Requests?

As a commercial DJ, you are EXPECTED to know just about everything and HAVE just about everything they will ask for.

Take your DJ career serious? Then GET serious!

Peace

DJ White Hawk

Amin