What to Do if a Fight Breaks out and You’re the DJ at the Event

0:00 I have been very busy to apologise but something I need to talk about

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm still here. I have been very busy to apologise but something I need to talk about. This is DJ related and if you're a mobile DJ for that matter, if you're a DJ who works and makes money from playing in front of people then this is for you. Now I've been in this industry a very long time and this has happened to me many times is Whether it be a wedding, birthday party, anything, even in a nightclub, you're playing some tunes and all of a sudden there's a fight. There's a couple of people or a group of people who decide to start being stupid. Now this has been in a few emails to me, what do you do? What is the best thing to do? Now the first thing to do above anything and everything is to turn the music

1:28 Play, tune anything, soul tune

Off. Not down, turn the music off. What that will do, that will of course alert any security because if all of a sudden there's just no music, people are going to turn heads, people are going to look. Of course then you need to use the microphone and you need to explain where the problem is. For example on the dance floor, by the bar, by the toilets etc. Make sure the security go there. That is so important. Secondly now, once hopefully the people have been removed or the incident has gone what you don't want to do is start playing banging music again. Try and keep it mellow just to begin with even if you're in a house madhouse room or something like that just play for a little bit one mellow tune because what that will do that will ease the atmosphere.

In the room because i don't know if you if you get that feel sometimes that kind of negative feel that sort of very tight coarse electric energy in a room when you do have trouble you need to disperse that and one way is to play some a small bit of a soul tune just anything a modern soul tune anything like that you don't have to play it for long trust me 30 seconds is enough it just seems to mellow Now also, this is what you must do. Trust me on this. Whether you're playing house, soul, hip-hop, R&B, techno, drum and bass, play a couple of... This is important now, this is the key. Your first tracks when you get back into your set, play tracks in the major scale, not the minor scale. Now if you're not familiar with major and minor,

2:58 The easiest way to interpret it is very simple

The easiest way to interpret it is very simple. The major scale is very uplifting, euphoric, it makes you feel good. The minor scale is very moody, very deep and if you're familiar with the likes of the Camelot wheel for example then your A1, A2, A3 are the minor, the major, B1, B2, B3 so pick some tracks of the genre you're playing in the major scale if you're doing a regular for example a wedding then play some euphoric kind of like major scale tracks i can't think of any mine's gone blank but what you're doing is you're taking away that sort of negative energy in the room and you're bringing the atmosphere up Now, I hope this is a help. Let me know in a comment underneath if you agree or disagree and also in a comment have you been in that situation where you've seen some fighting break out? What have you done? What is your best way of getting around it? Let me know in a comment. Also let me know if you think my video makes sense. Thank you for watching. Practice and enjoy. See you soon.

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