Ministry of Sound Dj Academy, Video fottage . Video 2

0:00 Double check, always double, wide range

The DJ Tutor offers a wide range of sound effects such as bass, drums and drums. The DJ Tutor offers a wide range of sound effects such as The pressure here, and it's like, right, okay, do you want to go on? And it's like, quick couple of records, mix. And it's quite under pressure, you know. One of the things I always do, even if people are pushing me to go on and stuff, you know, I always double check what's going on in the mixer. As I showed you before with the up-and-down faders and stuff, I always double check things like, are all the EQs centralised? Because when you get on... After another DJ, invariably they've left it with like the bass is fully off or whatever, you know, because they've just come out of a mix. So I always just double check, double check stuff, you know, before I actually dive in there. Yeah, well that's what put you off earlier on was the fact that this wasn't switched in. So you go in vinyl, aren't you? So vinyl there and vinyl... yeah, that one. There. So now you're on crossfader.

2:50 Excuse me, when they're doing a mix and people listen

Yeah, I mean that wasn't totally your fault before because I just jumped in and I saw you using the crossfader, I had to switch it in, you know. When you're working with a strange mixer, you know, as I said before, it's good to just double check everything before you kick off. Basically, if you think about it logically, you know, it's all in time, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4. There's a few ways you can do this and it is quite a good idea. It's a good effect and it's something that again is like I said earlier, you know, a DJ, great. Excuse me, when they're doing a mix and people listen. But if you can be visual as well as just people listening to you, then it takes you to the next level. Now again, with most CD players, if you just put your finger on the cue, leave it there, it'll play. It'll play continually until you take your finger off, yeah? But if you press play, it'll carry on. But of course logically, if you want it to go back to the beginning, you've got to double tap the cue.

3:57 You can do it with either the same track or a completely different tra

So you can actually mess around, but something like this, if you imagine that we've got a track here playing quite happily and all of a sudden we mix in another track. Then you can do it with either the same track or a completely different track. So track here playing, mix the next track in, and then you take this one out and put another one in, and see if we imagine that. I suppose, Glog really, but it's a gig log with a difference because very, very surreal experience today, exceedingly great experience One that I think would be fantastic for anyone to do. Started off this morning, got up god knows what time, I don't even think I had a proper sleep actually, sort of just excited and anxious about the whole day. Got on the first train, Aberystwyth which is half five, Birmingham London on the underground, got straight to the Ministry of Sound in London, just got there before everyone started saying hello and what the whole concept was about. They had

Two beginners groups, two intermediate and one advanced group. I did an intermediate to begin with and then we had a break. I was thinking right you know give me a beginners group and then they give me the bloody advanced group! It's like oh dear but what was so good was we learned off each other. I had a few tips and tricks and we had a good old natter. Now the beauty about what went on today it wasn't just me showing people what to do. It was me showing my skills And them showing their skills and all of us showing each other what we could do. Collectively then, we walked away knowing a lot more information. And that in a sense I feel is how this sort of ministry tutor thing is working. It's organic, which is what I like. Again, so many people say to me, you know, Jonathan why don't you charge? Why don't you make a DVD and sell it?

Well, from day one, like Brian has said, I have never wanted to do that. I've always wanted to do this for free. You know, certain aspects of what I'm doing now, I'm getting paid for because it's out and it's away from me sitting in my house doing videos. And that's fair enough. But it's very organic and it's growing naturally, which is so wonderful. You know, and yes, I'm inspiring possibly the next generation of DJs, not only in Thanks for watching, practice and enjoy.

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