No Matter How Many People Are in the Venue You Are Still the DJ and Need to Entertain Here's How

0:01 This video involves you if you're an entertainer

Right ladies and gentlemen, this video involves you if you're an entertainer. Not if you're just a DJ but if you're an entertainer in general and this video potentially could help you immensely whether you're an established DJ being in the industry for 20 years or you're just starting out. Now let's imagine you turn up to an event only to find you've got 20 people or 30 people. A lot of new DJs out there would look at the crowd and think, oh my God, it's going to be a disaster tonight. It's not going to be very good. There's not going to be any energy and it's going to be hard work and you're going to struggle. You go through the night playing what you can and you've just got this mindset that I don't want to be here. I'd prefer to be in a nightclub with 1000 people. Well, that's wrong because as an entertainer, no matter if you've got

10 people, one person or you've got a thousand, you still have to entertain. You see, there's a lot of psychology involved here and also how you interact with the crowd and how you act behind the DJ booth. If you look like a bag of chisels down and depressed and it's obvious to you and to the crowd that there aren't that many people and you can't wait to go home and you're just chatting with your friends on Facebook. Then you shouldn't really be an entertainer. What I'm trying to explain here is that as an entertainer, as a DJ, you should be able to make sure that one person or a thousand people enjoy themselves. Now admittedly if you've got a thousand people it's going to be very difficult to get that thousand people on the dance floor unless of course it's a very big dance floor. But look at it from this perspective. Let's look at averages.

1:52 You've got 50 people on the floor, 50 people sitting down

Let's say you've got 100 people and you've got 50% dancing, you've done a great job. So you've got 50 people on the floor, 50 people sitting down. Now let's imagine you've got 10 people and you've got 3 people dancing. Now in a way, to you that's probably I've only got 3 people dancing, but if there was 100, theoretically you'd have 30 people, which isn't bad at all. You see what I'm trying to explain here is that You as a DJ or a band or a singer, any form of artist, you need to always have that in your mind that you're there to entertain the crowd whether it's one person or a thousand. So if you go into a room and you see 20 people, take it out your mind that oh my god it's only 20 people, it's going to be a nightmare. In fact quite often it's easier because you're able to communicate better with the crowd, you can pick them out individually.

You can have fun with them. You're more likely to be able to play some kind of obscure track that one person wants, knowing full well that it would empty the dance floor when in essence if you're making that one person happy and they're all friends, you will of course make everyone happy because people talk. Now at the end of the night, if you've had that persona of I don't want to be here, I just can't stand it, I can't wait to leave the room. So what I'm trying to say in this video, it's not about the amount of people you're playing to. It's about the quality of entertainment you throw out there. You need to make sure that you please everyone in the room, whether it be 1, 2, 3, 6, 10, 100. Go in there with the idea in your mind.

4:40 7, 8 people, 20 people, 30 people

That you are going to leave that room knowing that every single person there, or at least most of them, have had a damn good night. Now, a lot of people haven't subscribed so hit that subscribe button and what I would like you to do in a comment, please do this because this is helpful not only for me but for everyone else out there. Describe a night where you've turned up and you've had, like, no one. When I say no one, I mean like... 7, 8 people, 20 people, 30 people. What was it like? Did you make them enjoy themselves? Yeah, you know, did they enjoy themselves, the crowd? Were you there thinking, oh my God, this is going to be terrible? Now what I have found in my personal opinion is that quite often when it's a small crowd, it's more intimate. You can have fun with them. You can pick them out individually and you can have a laugh with them. And that's what you should do. You know, start to be more of an MC.

Maybe you do or don't use the microphone. Well, in an environment where you've got minimum amount of people, you need to use the microphone. You need to start talking to them. And again, by definition, the less people that are there, the more you can communicate with those less people because you haven't got this throng of like 500 and maybe you see 50 on the dance floor all night and you can see them. You know they're always there on the dance floor. DJ tutorial by Ellaskins You're not going to get booked again. And the way social media works now, all you need is someone commenting saying we had a lovely night, the bar was great, the food was wonderful, but the entertainment was rubbish. I mean, do you really want that? I don't think so. All right. So in a comment, let me know what it was like for you with a crowd that was like half a dozen, 20 people, 30 people. What was it like? Were you able to entertain them? Was it hard work?

You're getting paid, alright? You're getting paid money to entertain. That is the key, alright? Let me know in a comment. Don't forget to give me a thumbs up, like and subscribe, alright? And I've got all this kit ready now because I'm giving a lesson later on. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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