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Complete Beginner DJ Lessons Tags Key BPM Etc
A more advanced lesson folded in early, and worth doing once rather than putting off, because everything it sets up gets used for years…
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Complete Beginner DJ Mixing Lessons Video 19 Getting Your Kit Ready for an Easy Mix
A whole lesson on getting ready, which is the right call - the exercise in the next video only teaches anything if the two decks are…
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Complete Beginner DJ Lessons Video 9 Setting up a Cue Point and Using the Play Button
Short, and it covers a piece of behaviour that will confuse you exactly once if nobody explains it. The normal case Load a track and the…
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Complete Beginner DJ Lessons How to Load a Track to Play on Your DJ Controller
A brief lesson with two methods in it. With the mouse Highlight a track in the list, hold the left button, drag it across onto one of the…
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Complete Beginner DJ Mixing Lessons Video 12 a Look at the Low Mid and Hig EQ bass Mid and Top
A listening exercise rather than a technique, and the right way round: you learn what a band contains far faster by taking it away than by…
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Complete Beginner DJ Mixing Lessons Video 16 a Simple Mix Using the Cross Fade X Fader
This is where the series stops explaining controls and starts asking you to do something. Everything in it has appeared already; the lesson…
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Complete Beginner DJ Lessons Video One a Look at a Controller and CDJ Turntable
The first of a numbered series he was asked to make, and he opens by telling existing viewers to skip it. That framing is worth honouring…
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Complete Beginner DJ Lessons Video 2 a Look at the Screen on a DJ Controller What's It For?
A lot of controllers now have a screen, and this lesson is about what that buys you: the ability to leave the laptop at home entirely. Plug…
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Complete Beginner DJ Lessons Video 8 a Look at the Jog Wheel and What It's Used for and How to Use
The circle on a controller is not one control. It is two, and a button switches between them. Vinyl mode In vinyl mode, the platter behaves…
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Complete Beginner DJ Lessons Video 13 a Look at the Cross Fader and up Faders
He says people assume these are easy and then get confused, which is fair - there are more combinations here than there look to be…
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Complete Beginner DJ Lessons Video 15 a Look at the Wave Format and What It's For
A short lesson that connects two things you have already met: the waveform display, and the bars and phrases you have been counting…
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Complete Beginner DJ Lessons How to Download the Driver and WHY You Need It
Short and worth following exactly, because two of the three points are about not creating problems for yourself. Why the driver matters The…
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Complete Beginner DJ Lessons Video 3 Loading a Track
Nominally a lesson about loading a track. What it actually teaches is the sequence to check when a loaded track makes no sound, which is…
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Complete Beginner DJ Lessons Where to Find the Music Folders
The shortest lesson in this block, and it answers a question that stops people on day one: the software opened, and there is no music in…
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Complete Beginner DJ Lessons Video 17 a Look at Headphones and the Best Way to Use Them
The headphone section, covered methodically, with one control that is new and one habit worth adopting permanently. The checklist He works…
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Complete Beginner DJ Lessons Part One a Look at a DJ Program Layout
A companion lesson looking at the screen rather than the box, and it makes one general point that saves a lot of confusion later. The…
