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How To Succeed At DJing, Pt 8: “You Only Get What You Give”

Way back in the 90s, when I decided I wanted to take a crack at playing in clubs and events, the most valuable piece of advice I was given was: Network your butt off. That’s been the major rule for a...

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10 DJ Tactics For When People Won’t Dance

Any experienced DJ, no matter how good or professional, has encountered dancefloors that just refuse to react as expected. There are a number of ways of dealing with the floor that won't dance: Here...

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How to Succeed At DJing, Part 9: Get A Demo & Press Kit

No matter how good you might think you sound in your bedroom; or even how many friends, colleagues and fans say you sound amazing: A DJ’s prime marketing tool is his demo. From cassettes to CDs to...

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Beginners’ Guide To Keylocking

Reader Max from Serbia And Montenegro writes: “I know what keylock does and how it works but I (and a lot of other DJs) have no idea when I am supposed to use it. If there are certain guidelines or...

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How To Succeed At DJing, Part 11: Promote Yourself Online

Today's topic is probably the biggest reason why I started writing this series. From the dawn of email right up to the current age of social media, online promotion has become the single most used and...

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Three Ways To Use Loops (Without Annoying Everyone)

Loops were one of our seven dirty secrets of digital DJing. It is now possible with practically all DJ controllers to easily get high quality, beat-perfect loops up and running.Today we look at...

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How To Succeed At DJing, Part 12: Build Yourself A Website

Last week I dove into the world of online promotion of your brand as a DJ, but I only covered social media and email. While those mediums are handy tools, a website is an essential if you want to go...

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Are You Stuck In The Tempo Trap?

Beatmixing has brought with it something that has been quietly boring dancefloors since the first 4/4 beats were electronically created - the tempo trap. The post Are You Stuck In The Tempo Trap?...

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Beginner DJs’ Guide: How To Rip CDs to iTunes Properly

If you’re a new digital DJ, you probably have lots of music on CD that you’d like to rip to iTunes in order to use in your DJ sets. You’ll only do this once, though, and so it’s important that you get...

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7 Surefire Steps To Becoming A Better DJ

Like anything worth learning, DJing is not something you'll become good at overnight. But if you know exactly what you should be doing in order to improve, you chances of success will be much higher....

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How To Succeed At DJing Part 7: Market Yourself Like A Pro

Over the course of the last six articles in this series, I've pretty much hit you with the harsh reality of working in this industry. Now we're changing gears from the "hard truths" and going deep into...

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Making Mashups, Part 4: Setting Up Your Sample-Based Performance

If you've been following along with this tutorial series for the past three weeks, you're pretty much set to making your own sample-based mashups. There's one final important thing though: turning all...

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