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Complete Beginner DJ Lessons Video 6 How to Change the BPM Beats per Minute
The term you will see everywhere, defined properly and then demonstrated. What BPM means Beats per minute. Exactly what it says: count the…
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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 Loops Cue Play Pause and Pitch What They Do
A tour of the software equivalents, and the value is in seeing that nothing new is introduced. Everything here is something you already…
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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 Lessons Video 14 Using the Effects FX and What They Do
Effects sections look intimidating and are not. There are four controls, they do the same four things on every machine, and the only thing…
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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 24 Setting Different Positions on the Pitch Mixing Practise
The hardest exercise in the series and the one that makes the rest of it worth doing. He describes it as the thing that scares the hell out…
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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 5 How to Count One Bar in Your Music
Short, and the foundation of everything structural in DJing. Count in fours One, two, three, four. Almost all dance music is counted this…
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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 Video 10 WHY You Set a Low % on the DJ Pitch Speed Controller
A setting most beginners never touch, and the one that decides whether beatmatching feels possible. What the percentage means The pitch…
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Complete Beginner DJ Lessons Video 18 What Is Master Tempo Also Known as Key Lock
He opens by apologising for having misnumbered some of his own videos, which is endearing and also a useful signal: this is somebody making…
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Complete Beginner DJ Lessons Video 11 How and WHY You Use the Jog Wheel
The first proper practice mix in the series, and it is set up to remove every variable except one. The setup The same track on both sides…
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Complete and Utter Beginner DJ Lessons 25 Challenging Yourself Pitch Position Practise Mixing
A short lesson adding a single rule, and the rule fixes a flaw you would otherwise take weeks to notice. The flaw In the wax-on-wax-off…
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Complete Beginner DJ Lessons Video 21 Finding a Slight Variation in BPM Beats per Minuit
A one-change experiment, and the change is tiny on purpose. What he alters Tempo reset off, and one pitch fader moved down very slightly…
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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 23. Wax on Wax off Practise How to Mix
Named after the Karate Kid, and the comparison is exact: a repetitive, slightly boring motion done until it stops requiring thought. 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…
