DJ Advice Having a Bad Mix Day? What to Do

0:00 Quite a few points

Alright guys, Jonathan here, The DJ Tutor, and this particular video is going to cover quite a few points. Hopefully will teach, inspire, motivate you and make you think, okay. Firstly, do you want to get noticed more? Would you like to be out there and people to see your mixes? Well of course you can do that through many ways. One of which, which I'm going to be talking about this towards the latter part of this video, is Ustream. Ustream TV, it's a way of you doing live broadcasts. All you do, open an account, of course you've got to have a valid email address, and then you can live stream. When you live stream, just put links into your Facebook, your Twitter, and you should get a few people watching you, which is great. It's good for getting that sort of feedback.

1:10 I wasn't happy with it myself

The other point about this, sorry, they're making cakes, you know. It's great actually, family life is wonderful. You say, let's make some cakes, and everything, you think, hey brilliant, fantastic. Yeah, they're screaming and shouting, you know. What do you do? You might as well like get sledgehammers, hit them across the head, and then they'll scream and shout. Why are you screaming and shouting? You're hitting me with a sledgehammer, sorry! It's like, let's make cakes. Why are you screaming and shouting? Because you're making cakes! Okay, back to the video. So, that's one point. Second point, which is really what this particular video is about, I did myself, I did a live stream last night on Ustream TV.

And to be quite honest, it was diabolical. It was absolutely... I wasn't happy with it myself. It was terrible. Why was it terrible? Because probably, I mean, I never actually organise the tunes anyway, it just happens, but it wasn't working for me. So that made me think about doing this particular video, because there are probably a lot of DJs out there who start a set and it just doesn't seem to go well, no matter what you do, how you do it, how much you try, it just doesn't, it's not happening. So at that point, you have to decide. Just stop, walk away and go and paint a wall or something like that. Go to the toilet, go outside in your underwear and go and scream at the neighbour and chuck bananas at her.

2:35 It's because you know you're having a bad night

Very random. Now, why am I doing this video? Well, it's because it happens to everybody. It actually happens to everybody where they all of a sudden think, I'm going to kill a crowd tonight, it's going to rock, but it doesn't. Now, if you get in that position. If you're in a working environment, this is where the professionalism just like shines from you. It just goes boom. It's because you know you're having a bad night. You know it's not working, but you need to make sure that the crowd out there don't know that you're having a bad night. It's vital because as soon as they pick up on, oh dear, the DJ is not very happy, they won't be happy if the tunes aren't working and it's going all over the place.

Still, get up and smile and do some moves. All right, so this video really is about explaining mainly that if you're having a bad night, if you're doing a bad set, first of all, a bad set at home, the best thing you can do is to walk away and do the gardening or something come back fresh and then get to it. If you're in that position when you're in a working environment in front of the crowd, you can't walk away where you can, but you won't get paid. And you look bloody stupid. Don't do it. What you can do, though, is you can go right? I'm just gonna get on with it. Smile and wave and do the best I can from a professional point of view because that's why you're there in the first place. You're professional.

So go to it. Have some fun. I'll put a link down here to Ustream.tv and I suggest you open a channel, open an account. All you need is a webcam and away you go. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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