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ALL DJ'S MAKE A VIDEO, on now at www.djtutor.com

Promotion November 2007

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0:00 I don't care if you're a new DJ or you're an old DJ, whatever

Alright folks, this is a message going out to all DJs out there. I don't care if you're a new DJ or you're an old DJ, whatever. If you've been DJing for one day or 20 years, this is what I'd like you to do. I'd like you to do a video, okay, yourselves. Stick it on YouTube. You can upload it. Tomorrow if you want to, it doesn't matter. But it's got to be in this format, okay? What I want you to do is first of all introduce yourself, say who you are, say where you live. Don't give the name of the street or town because you don't want people knocking on your door, okay? Just say, for example, me. I'm Jonathan Lewis and I live near Aberystwyth. That's all you need to do. After that I want you to explain the style that you're going to be using in your little mix that you're going to do. Whether it be house, hip-hop, soul, R&B, reggae, ragga, jazz, doesn't matter.

1:19 DAT players, no problem

Then what I want you to do is take the camera and go along and show everyone watching all your equipment. While you're going through your equipment, I want you to name it. So for example, I would do something like this. I have two Technics SL-1210 turntables and I have a Citronic DJ Pro mixer. And then if you want to, you could go about saying about the speakers etc you've got as well. Once you've done that, I'd like you to do a little mix. Also, very important, I'm not just on about people who use turntables. If you use a PC, that's fine. If you use CD players, no problem. DAT players, no problem. Whatever you use to make music, do this. And then once you've done a three minute mix, thereabouts, it doesn't have to be precisely three minutes, two and a half, three and a half, no worries.

2:34 Every single genre of music will have their own page

You must have at least one mix in there. So you could even just have two records, two CDs go from one to the other. That's fine. When you've finished it, say practice and enjoy because that's cool. Now what we're going to do with your video is simply this. When the pages are uploaded on DJTutor.com, we're going to choose... Not the best, okay? We're not on about the best videos. We're not on about the best ones that look good. We're not on about the best DJs with the best mixes. We're just going to choose some videos for every genre of music, dance music, house, hip-hop, soul, reggae, ragga, techno, trance, electro, hardcore, breakbeat, drum and bass, soul, 70s, 80s, 90s, it doesn't matter. Every single genre of music will have their own page. On that page, we will take a selection of five DJs, each DJ or five sets of DJs who will go, say for example, five DJs will be using turntables, five DJs will be using a PC, five DJs will be using CDs. The list goes on, okay? So theoretically then, on each page you will have as follows. You'll have on the top, house music.

Underneath you'll have five DJs that play house music using CDs, five underneath that that play house music using vinyl, etc. And of course the beauty about it is you will be putting your videos on YouTube, we will then take the link and we will give you relevant information, we'll probably even give you a form to fill in on the website, I will explain about that in another video. Fill in the form, we get the link and we put the link www.djtutor.com

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