Dj Tutor on the road Teaching in A secondary school.

0:00 I'm going to be giving them DJ lessons

Right folks, it's Jonathan here and it's 5 past 8 in the morning and I'm now off to a comprehensive school in the middle of Wales. I'm going to be giving them DJ lessons. So I'm actually going to be one of the teachers, which is quite cool, in the school for the day. I hope I get to go into the staff room and get the local gossip etc. That should be quite interesting. But yeah, it's really cool. What happened is... I had a teacher phone me. I mentioned initially about drum lessons and then I mentioned about the DJing thing. She said, wow, that's a good idea. She'd asked the head and then the head, I presume I'm the music teacher, asked the pupils. And as far as I know, I think I'm teaching 60 people today in different lessons.

With so many per lesson. So that should be quite interesting. Now again, I don't know whether I'll be able to put this actual video on YouTube because I did ask if I could do some video footage. I mean there are a couple of pointers I did say and that is one, I would not say any of the names of the actual... Sorry, I've just got a big van going past me. I would not say any names of the people I'm teaching and also I wouldn't say the name of the school. So I don't know yet if I'm going to be allowed to film, but logically, if you're watching this now, I was allowed. So there you go. I shall speak to you in a minute. Alright, what I want you to do is I want you to move the record forward and back at that point on beat, like this. That's it. A bit slower. Just remember that beat. That dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum. Okay? Alright.

1:59 Forward, back, forward, back, forward, back, forward, back

That's it, move it forward and back with the beat. Forward, back, forward, back, forward, back, forward, back. Okay, when I say five, count to five, then you press that button, okay? Okay, ready, and one, two, three, four, five. Right, move that towards you now. Slowly, take it down a bit. Keep on going down. And about there. Down a bit. It's not bad, it's not bad. With the beat, forward, back, forward, back. That's it, very good.

3:18 The headmistress was very happy

Okay. Alright guys, sorry you didn't see much of the actual tutorial but like I said, I think I've said and that is that, you know, we're dealing with a comprehensive school so we don't want to name the school, you know, we can't really see the kids etc but today went really well. It was very good. The headmistress was very happy. She was the one who said I could film but, you know, It wasn't a case of strict instructions. I actually said, look, I'm not going to film the kids. I just really want to film a bit about what's happening and what I'm doing. I'm just moving the camera here, I apologise. But anyway, I've got to fill in one of these forms. Basically it's like... What happens is it's like a police check to make sure that you're not like some napedophile or something like that. So that should be OK, that's going through.

DJ Tutorial by Ellaskins If I can get you on the right direction, if I can start you off and show you along with, you know, the other imports like Big Milan, Tizzy as well, you've got Brian S. Redd, Alex Handy, whatever he's doing, and then a load of other bunch of bunch that Happy Viking, the whole lot of you, all right? You know, watch these guys, see what they do, and they can make sure that you become better. And then what happens is that then, you know, you will start to get your own style. You'll start to, your own little ways of mixing Bringing EQ in, bringing EQ out, doing this and that sort of stuff. So that's what it's all about, practice and enjoyment, which is totally what I'm doing all the time. And apart from the fact people say, how do you earn your money? It's like, well, I just do what I can to survive folks, believe me. Being self-employed is not easy because one minute you can have bookings coming in left, right and centre, and the next minute there's absolutely nothing.

Thank you for watching, practice and enjoy.

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