DJ Lesson How to Finish Your DJ Set with a Bang Video 1

0:00 Video number one on finishing your set

All right, ladies and gentlemen, video number one on finishing your set. Now, first of all, the quality of this video isn't going to be that good because, okay, we need a tune, don't we? First of all, you can't have a video without a tune, so here's your tune.

That's all you're going to have. The reason this video isn't that good a quality is because there isn't any music in this video, so if you're into loads of music and that's all you want, I suggest you turn off now. Right, okay, this is video number one on finishing your set. Now, let's bring up an analogy. Let's imagine you're taking your test. Now, of course, in the UK we drive on the right side of the road, not like people in America who drive on the wrong side of the road. We will sit here and we will have our instructor that side, not that side. That's silly! Duh! Just kidding. Of course, you don't just have your instructor. Prior to having an instructor or during the course of having an instructor, you have someone else with your auntie, uncle, nephew, niece, dog, cat, budgie helping you along.

But the driving isn't just it. There's also the theory behind driving. There are books to read. So, how can I explain? Finishing your set isn't just about the music. It's about the people, the venue, the atmosphere. The people will possibly... The answers, the public, will possibly... They'll be the ones who will determine how they want the night to finish. But also, it could be you as well. You could be the person because you are the entertainer. You could be the one who will be the one who will say, listen, I want the night to finish like this. For example, let's imagine the crowd are buzzing like mad and you want them to finish like that. Then finish on a high note. If they're buzzing like mad and you feel there's a lot of tension in the room, you need to lower the vibe.

2:24 It depends what time of night

If they're just... You need to lift them up. There are so many different ways of finishing the night. Too many new DJs out there think, got to finish on a high, got to finish on a high, finish on a high, yeah, fine, bring it up there, bang. It depends what time of night. What time of night it is as well. If you are a professional DJ and you're working in a really big club and you have other DJs after you, then maybe you don't want to do that. You want to bow down politely and say, thank you, I've left the floor as it is, good quality dancers, everything's buzzing out there, but I haven't gone mental at the end of my set because I am professional enough to let you, the DJ who is, let's say, getting paid,

Avast! Amount of money than me, or more money than me or whatever, some top name, to finish the night off. Now that particular DJ won't think you're an idiot because you've just kept a certain flow and the crowd are like, okay, we're ready for you. They'll look at you and think, thank you, because there's an intelligence there. They've looked at you and thought you're very professional. So again, a different way of finishing the night. Now, musical-wise, or looking at music or listening to music, let's say, for example, you're playing a certain track in a certain key, and you want to finish the night with a bang. If you play your last track in that same key, then it's quite possible that the night will just carry on going.

You have to lift it up, you have to take it to the next level, which means bringing it up a key to a new dimension. This is where your ear comes in, and the transition has to go from this up to here. Alternatively, maybe you need to lower the vibe, so you bring it down a key. Also, maybe at the end of the night, you want to finish off with an absolute bang.

Don't go there. So another idea is for you to just stop the track that you're playing. So think about it. Just picture, close your eyes and imagine... I'm watching you. Close your eyes. Oi! Just imagine... Pardon me. No, I didn't. Just kidding. Imagine that...

It's so weird sometimes talking to myself here, but I don't care. I've done this too many bloody times and I worry so much. Look at the monkeys!

OK. So imagine... Sorry about this. Have you seen on the top of this thing there's a fluffy thing? No, sorry, I shouldn't because we're getting in the vibe here, aren't we? Carball box. And no, I don't take drugs. OK. So imagine now you are playing your last track and all of a sudden you stop that track. Now, not at the end of the song as normal but stop it, let's say, at a break towards the latter part of the track or stop it where it's...

5:11 I'm not allowed to say fuck, so I'll say What the

Finish it. Now the crowd are like... What's going on? Think about it. At that point you will have complete control of that room because they're looking at you thinking What the frigging heck have you done? I'm not allowed to say fuck, so I'll say What the... What the frigging heck have you done? The music's gone off! Is it the sound? Is it the electricity? They'll look at you. Now at this point you have to be in 160 million percent control of that room because if you eff it up, you eff it up. Arms like this. If you've got the microphone all the better. Ladies and gentlemen we are gonna party tonight! You've already sussed it out. You have next track two or three levels higher press play bang, straight in. Now you can't do that

If you're mixing one track into the other and you go five or six or three or four levels higher you can if the keys work but you can't if they don't work but you can if you have the gap and then you bring the next one in, alright? Because the transition is you. The focus is on you bringing the vibe up and making the crowd go What is going on? Boom! And then there it goes. If your light jockey's by you and he or she have got their head screwed on believe me everything will be flashing probably including every single person in that room and then you let the entire track play and you jump around as though you have got a tarantula spider ripping at your testicles or your female bits. Pardon me. So that's another way of finishing the night.

There will be more of these videos practice and enjoy. Thank you. By the way, happy birthday to Yvette tomorrow. Thank you.

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