Mobile DJ Advise for Your New Years Eve Gig Event

0:00 New Year's Eve

Alright, Jonathan here, The DJ Tutor. This video is really only relevant for New Year's Eve, but it's really relevant for any gig. Talk about New Year's Eve. First of all, we're in the middle of the holiday season and if you're watching this video any time after New Year's Eve then you're too late. If you're watching it beforehand, brilliant! So, you're doing a mobile event, you're doing a party, you're doing the sort of event where you're going to have different age groups. You're going to have all age groups, not just your 30 year olds or your 40s or your 10 year olds or your 20 year olds. You're going to have a complete mixture of age groups. How do you keep them happy? Well first of all, New Year's Eve for most gigs is about party. It's about fun. It's about excitement.

It's about invigorating the mind. Just making people go mental. There needs to be euphoria in the room, pretty much from the word go. So how can you do that? Well first of all, New Year's Eve is probably one of the easiest events you can ever do in your life. Now maybe as a new DJ if you're watching this you're probably thinking, God it must be terrible, New Year's Eve! It must be the most difficult of all time. It's not, it's actually the easiest. Because people, most people, in fact I would say practically every single person who is going to a New Year's Eve party, you've got the odd one or two who just didn't want to be there and they're just like atolled to go through fear of death. So most people are going to want to go anyway or are there because they want to be there. That means that they are already ready to be happy and to have fun.

So that is it. Have that in your mind. Fun.

1:52 The music needs to be fun

The music needs to be fun. It needs to be exciting. So don't start the evening with some dreary claptrap R&B and soul that is going to depress people and make them want to kill themselves. I'm not saying that R&B and soul is like that. What I am saying is you need to make sure that the night, the whole night starts off, even, you know, the whole night from the beginning to the end starts, middle, end with a boom and a bang. So start playing the classic, full-on party music tunes. A couple of things to think of. Think of the first few notes of every track. Try and make sure that every track you play, as soon as you play those first few notes people know the tune. You do not want to start with an introduction of .

People are going like what is this tune? Do you want to start off with, you know... I want to... People know the tune straight away. So as soon as they hear the first few notes, they know it. Also, before the event a good idea is to get a setlist, a playlist. No, actually not a setlist. Sorry. Because you do not want to play a set because during that set that maybe you've made somewhere along that set the dance floor may change and if you stick to that set you may not get the dance floor back. What you do need to have though is you need to have a folder with all of the tracks that you will hopefully intend to play. So while you're at home before the event just go through, yes, yes, yes, not that one, not that one, I'm going to play that one, so on and so on.

3:51 The most important part of this video

So when you get to the event you open up that folder and guess what? That's your party folder. That is the folder. Those are the tunes that are going to make people go bananas and bonkers. This is possibly... the most important part of this video. Make sure that if you can, every single track, every single one of the tunes you play is in the major key because the major key will automatically uplift the euphoria in the room. It has much more of an uplifting feeling for the soul and for the vibe and the energy. So anything with that... that sort of just... it's got it. That's what you need. Now, of course there are tunes out there that are classics that are not in the major key. Well, it doesn't matter. Bring them in.

Play them. But try your best to play most of your tunes that are in the major key. OK, so in a nutshell, party, think, have fun, smile. You are the person who is in charge of their night. Make sure that you're happy as well because if you're behind the decks looking like a bag full of chisels, then that's the vibe you're going to be putting out there. You need to make sure that you've got happiness inside you. With you having happiness inside you, the crowd will have happiness inside them. With you playing good party commercial happy tunes, the crowd are going to love it. And with you playing the party commercial happy tunes that are in the major key... the major scale, you're going to make the room go bananas.

Practice and enjoy. And here's a tip for you as well. Maybe try this just before New Year's Eve. Set the clock. Make sure you have the time, the exact time. And try this. Play the final countdown before the strike of 12. And it's the final countdown. Boom, like that. Just try it. Might work, might not. But the last tune you play before you go into the fireworks and the New Year's Eve kind of countdown and Big Ben and all that sort of timer whatever for 12 o'clock... Choose that one track. Okay? Make sure that's a biggie. Before you play it, talk about just... Ladies and gentlemen, it's the last track. Track of 2000. And enjoy. Check your watch and three, two, one. Play the tune. Now that is not only a good idea but it's also being very professional because as soon as the track finishes...

Boom! It's 12 o'clock or at least it's time for the chimes or the countdown. Okay? So little things like that can make the night go from good to professionally... Professionally extravaganzably brilliant. Practice and enjoy. Happy New Year. Thank you.

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