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Musical Craft
4 courses · 35 lessons · 5 h 19 min
The musical side: mixing in key, choosing tracks that work together, managing energy, building a set and reading a floor.
Courses
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Course 1 of 4
Mixing in Key
Two tracks can be perfectly in time and still sound wrong, because their keys disagree. His numbered harmonic mixing series runs first, then the later lessons that revisit it with…
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Course 2 of 4
Building a Set
A set has a shape: where it starts, where it lifts and where it lands. Warm-up sets get their own lesson here because they are the job most new DJs are actually given, and the one…
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Course 3 of 4
Reading the Floor
The part that cannot be done from a prepared playlist. Keeping people dancing, teasing a record before you play it, and the specific problem every mobile DJ meets - why nobody…
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Course 4 of 4
Choosing the Next Track
Track selection is most of the job and the least teachable part of it, so this is mostly Ellaskins thinking aloud while he digs - what makes a hook, what makes two records belong…
