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Stage 5 Musical Craft Course 3 of 4

Reading the Floor

Intermediate 5 lessons · 39 min

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 dances straight after the food.

By the end of this course you will be able to

  • Keep a floor rather than clear it
  • Tease a track to build anticipation before dropping it
  • Choose the next record from what the room is doing
  • Handle the flat patch in the middle of an event

Lessons

  1. Keeping people on the dance floor

    2:15

  2. Tease the mix and you tease the crowd

    14:27

  3. Choosing the next track to please the crowd

    13:26

  4. Lifting the energy with a quick drop

    4:56

  5. Why nobody dances straight after the food

    4:07

The stages are the way through

Below this line is the back catalogue, newest first. Useful for browsing, but it is not a course - the videos are in the order they were filmed, not the order to learn them in. Work the stages instead: each one assumes the one before it.

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