Summary: Now that you are a professional DJ, how can you improve and become a better DJ? Get tips on changing tempo and picking out songs 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. Malerine's eclectic...read more
"OK guys in today’s clip we're going to talk about how to become a better DJ and there's a lot of things that you can do to become a better DJ and of course first and foremost practice, practice, practice. Anything that you do in repetition and you really focus on. You can become a lot better at just understanding something conceptually is not always good a neurology learning how to do it and that comes from repetition. Some of the tips I can give on for better DJing. For DJ's is vary your BPM's don't get stuck in the same tempo for too long throughout the night. Bring it from sixty to one twenty and bring it back down to sixty within a few songs and it'll still go seamlessly cause your doubling BPM's but it'll be dramatic to the crowd. Another tip is try to mix music in key like a musician would. A musician wouldn't come in with a baseline in a C if the guitar player was playing D. So in a lot of case very good professional DJ's; what we're doing now is we're actually picking out songs that fit in key with the next song. That we're going to play and all throughout the night you don't hear any BPM clashes and you don't hear any key clashes. That’s some ways to become a better DJ."
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