I would like to build my own crates based on your advice. Rather than getting a bunch of songs that I probably already have from years of DJing and dealing with even more duplicates, I was wondering if you could share the song lists for the crates?
Nick I can’t tell you how much you’ve really got me excited to bang out weddings again. Last year I was just going through motions at my events and probably guilty of running very similar sets over and over again! Your crate videos have really gotten me so excited to do weddings and events this year with fresh eyes and a new game plan for attacking that dance floor! You’ve made a fan for life my man!! Thanks for your Time an effort you put into these tutorials and keep up the great content!!
First time running into this video, and it really make sense to me time and time I find myself playing the same song over and over again,now you give me a different perspective to look at. Thanks Nick keep the tutorials coming 👍
Yep. I played Elvis at the wedding on Friday. Lol but I also played endless love which I don’t hear much anymore. Your first video helped me to get my crates together. Those people who are still DJ off the top of there head are living in denial. Lol
Great breakdown, love your energy! I used to think I had to mindlessly download the most recent of recent hits to play. I quickly realized that weddings is about 95% classic bangers with only a few new hits sprinkled in. I find it laughable when most DJs boast about having "100,000" song collections when in reality, a better DJ handpicks his music library to have bangers only, no fillers. The average party you only play about 100 songs or so if not less. Another thing that defined me as a DJ was bartending in the busiest nightclubs and sports bars in town. It made me realize I didnt want to be the DJ playing the same sets over and over again. After hearing most DJs at my clubs or bars I could quickly tell which song they would play next.
I'm retired, 70 years old, been around every genre of music. I have collected music my whole life. I convert the vinyl to digital. One thing, me personally, noticed, is if it has a good dance beat, no matter the genre, they dance. I don't worry about it. I do weddings for free and car shows for tips. I enjoy the music and being around it. Maybe the dance floor isn't full at all times, but it is occupied by different generations and I don't run off the older folks by 8:00. They stay for it all. I do preprogrammed and mixed music, put them into titled folders and open at the precise time. No complaints so far.
love all your videos i have been a dj on and off for 30 years like your energy learn lots from you i do mainly weddings keep putting out more videos i love watching them
I just went through my entire music library and re organized all of the music on my hard drive so when I load it into my new Mackbook Pro I can get my crates in order> You have some great tips in here and I will follow suit to get my crates in shape finally.
Echoing what others have said; phenomenal content and encouraging to see someone flesh out what I’ve wanted to do in my software for gigs! Great stuff that I will definitely put into action once this crazy coronavirus crap finally runs its course...thanks!!
I always felt weird putting certain songs in the wrong year but it made sense to me since certain songs sound from a different era, like if it’s a 90s song that’s sounds 80s I’ll keep in 80s.
Nick...You are the VERY BEST! Wanted to share three BANGERS (in this order) that are guaranteed to get the dance floor 100% back full right after the GARTER TOSS....JUMP INTO "Hipps Don't Lie" then "Party In the USA" and finally "Rockin Robin"...the ladies will run and hop and JUMP back to the dance floor with these 3...then you can take it anywhere from that.... Wanted to share! YOU ARE THE BEST! Mark "DJ2deep"
Great content as always. We started doing this a couple years ago and it has paid HUGE dividends to us. Once or twice a year, we go through all of them again, add new songs and got rid of the "fluff." It's amazing how much easier every event has been since we started doing this. When we meet with our couples now, we talk about genres they like rather than individual songs. Makes prep time so much shorter too. Nice to see you sharing your folders. I'm sure it's worth every penny. Catch you next time you are spinning in Harrisburg. Stay safe.
You need to add CUMBIAS to your latin “fuego” for sure every event has a 20% of people who are gonna know ( Los Angeles Azules, rigo tovar, celso pena) theres more but those are your openers
Really love this video!! It’s Mid August right now so I’m in the thick of my wedding season, (Toronto) and I’m starting to coast a bit. This gave me the motivation I need to play around with my crates and bring a fresh approach to my dancefloor. Great vid!!
I know this is an older vid but dang this helped he figure out my problem! I just had waaaay to many songs and not enough folders. It would take me 30 secs to find a song sometimes which is an eternity when you're mixing, as well as tons of stuff that just wasn't getting played so using the Serato play count feature most of my 0 plays are getting canned or refiled elsewhere. Good vid!
Do you get request for reggae style music? I enjoy your videos. Very helpful. I've been DJing for years but your still teaching help tips. Thank you so much.
Hi Nick! Im a wedding DJ from Russia and I want to say that me and my friends-Dj-s have almost the same crates as you are. Of course, we usually don't have "Latin" music in special folder/crate :) But the main difference is that many Djs, who I know, divide all music to "Foreign" and "Russian" and these are our main crates which include sub-crates similar to yours. And on most wedding parties usually plays music from "Russian" crate, of course :) and sub-crates often looks like "Rus-dance..." and then goes a date of creating this folder (and crate). And it always consist of bangers so you can easy find what you need. That might be interesting, i thought. ;)
Super helpful…unfortunately I foresee this being time consuming however worth not having that aweful feeling of being unsure or ill prepared behind the decks.
Damnit! “Uh yeah this white boy knows what he’s doing” I was just setting here working and listing to this video and that just caught me off guard for a good laugh 🤣🤣
Love this! I’m new to the dj game so this helps me get started well. Question, what about remixes, or like different versions of classic songs. Do you put those in the right spot in the crate based off the original? Or do you have a “remix folder?”
AHAHAHAAHAH I also have a 'chick songs' crate which I consider a get out of jail free card cause they are the songs you know girls are gonna be like 'OMG I LOVE THIS SONG'
@NickSpinelli Clean lyrics 🆚 Regular unedited songs…what is your opinion on this? I think you mentioned something about clean songs here on this video…Does it have to do with the type of event you’re playing at or do you always play clean songs?
Hey Nick, How are you? I hope you and your family are doing well. So in this video, you talk about how you organize your crates. But is there a software that you use as your main database or when you download new music do you just put it into your main library folder? Do you keep your main library folder organized as well or is it one big folder with all your songs in it and you use the DJ software to organize? Thank you for your time and stay safe.
Man old people HATE quick mixing. I don’t know how many times an old person has come up to ask me if I was gonna play the whole song at some point 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hey Nick… I know this is a old video but I have to ask you, how many versions do you have of each track in you crates. I Think it’s my biggest problem, that I maybe have 3-7 versions of each banger… Radio Edit, Beat intro, Acapella intro/outro. What do you do? Thanx fore allways great content😃🙌 Best regards from Dj Nicx in Denmark🇩🇰😃🙌
Hi I have not seen your crates yet but I usually play for a Latin crowd and of course American music. I play all bangers. Switch out Elvis Presley and Etta James At Last for this song that I am going to tell you and the older folks will appreciate it like they did with me. Try giving them Europa by Gato Barbieri. It is a beautiful balad. Let me know what happens.
I just listen to Europa and DAMN that's fireeeeee. I promise you the next time I play a slow song (whenever that is lol) I'm gonna drop this. Thank you!!!
Nick Spinelli the very first time I heard Europa was a scene on the tv series Dallas in the 80’s. I fell in love with it then, and still a favorite now. 👍 stay safe Mr DJ. wherever you are.
Good job bro👍a lot of good info but you didn't mention cumbias - [Kumbia Kingz and Selena "Baila Esta Cumbia " ]you have to have at least that one song in your crates. Look it up on UA-cam.
Is there a way to create a folder/crate prior to opening Serato? Afterwards, load that folder/crate in Serato and the folder/crate will be ready to use.
You can create folders where you store your music and then load those folders as crates into Serato... just make sure those folders contain only MP3s - no other files or sub folders
Nick Spanelli What Bpm do you consider Danceable I’m considering your Products I’m guessing your Crates start at 100 Bpm I can’t see you throwing own 120 Bpm and people just finished eating.
First of all, I curated these lists to include only the songs that actually work. There's no fluff what so ever. Second of all, it says in the description of each list exactly how many songs are on the list.
you could just keep ur playlist simple and not have to make new crates just by hitting the most played in ur section for each playlist and u will see which songs u play the most that are ur own bangers
difference between club and wedding DJ is no one is coming back next week to hear the wedding DJ. being unique is fine for you, but with 70 years of top 10 lists, there’s plenty of tired and true known pop tunes with no complaints snot being boring except for your own personal muse.
man Nick, i comment in your videos while watching and then you say exactly what i was thinking. yeah..like with SO much music, why ever play anything but a flow filler.
With the new SSD's in Mac, it would be way faster and overall a better experience keeping it on your internal hard drive. Just don't forget to back that shit up!!
Wanna see what music I have in my crates? CLICK THIS LINK --> sellfy.com/nick-spinelli/dancingcrates/
I would like to build my own crates based on your advice. Rather than getting a bunch of songs that I probably already have from years of DJing and dealing with even more duplicates, I was wondering if you could share the song lists for the crates?
@@karlbakker7111 all of my song lists are at the link above!
How much do the lists cost?
@@AlfredRaddatz Click on the link. It is all there! - Enjoy
Hey can you. Help me with some music I’m try so hard get started dj plz my name is dj iceman
Nick I can’t tell you how much you’ve really got me excited to bang out weddings again. Last year I was just going through motions at my events and probably guilty of running very similar sets over and over again! Your crate videos have really gotten me so excited to do weddings and events this year with fresh eyes and a new game plan for attacking that dance floor! You’ve made a fan for life my man!! Thanks for your Time an effort you put into these tutorials and keep up the great content!!
This comment made my day Tim, I'm so glad! Much more to come! 🙌🏼
First time running into this video, and it really make sense to me time and time I find myself playing the same song over and over again,now you give me a different perspective to look at. Thanks Nick keep the tutorials coming 👍
Yep. I played Elvis at the wedding on Friday. Lol but I also played endless love which I don’t hear much anymore. Your first video helped me to get my crates together. Those people who are still DJ off the top of there head are living in denial. Lol
My “hidden gem” .. I think we’re alone now by Tiffany. The older cougars absolutely love that track.
THE BEST VIDEO I WATCHED
Great breakdown, love your energy! I used to think I had to mindlessly download the most recent of recent hits to play. I quickly realized that weddings is about 95% classic bangers with only a few new hits sprinkled in. I find it laughable when most DJs boast about having "100,000" song collections when in reality, a better DJ handpicks his music library to have bangers only, no fillers. The average party you only play about 100 songs or so if not less. Another thing that defined me as a DJ was bartending in the busiest nightclubs and sports bars in town. It made me realize I didnt want to be the DJ playing the same sets over and over again. After hearing most DJs at my clubs or bars I could quickly tell which song they would play next.
I'm retired, 70 years old, been around every genre of music. I have collected music my whole life. I convert the vinyl to digital. One thing, me personally, noticed, is if it has a good dance beat, no matter the genre, they dance. I don't worry about it. I do weddings for free and car shows for tips. I enjoy the music and being around it. Maybe the dance floor isn't full at all times, but it is occupied by different generations and I don't run off the older folks by 8:00. They stay for it all.
I do preprogrammed and mixed music, put them into titled folders and open at the precise time. No complaints so far.
love all your videos i have been a dj on and off for 30 years like your energy learn lots from you i do mainly weddings keep putting out more videos i love watching them
Fantastic insight as always! Variety is the spice of life
Joey Gionfriddo thanks bro! And you got that right!!
I’ve got a wedding coming up in June. Majority of the music they want is pop this is gonna help me out a lot. Thanks Nick
Glad to know I’m already doing the same things! I feel comfortable walking into almost any scenario these days .
I have labeled Hot Crates of every genre, vibe, energy. I know I can run any of them at any time and they will bang!
I just went through my entire music library and re organized all of the music on my hard drive so when I load it into my new Mackbook Pro I can get my crates in order> You have some great tips in here and I will follow suit to get my crates in shape finally.
Echoing what others have said; phenomenal content and encouraging to see someone flesh out what I’ve wanted to do in my software for gigs! Great stuff that I will definitely put into action once this crazy coronavirus crap finally runs its course...thanks!!
Thank you so much for watching!! We'll get through this craziness!
thanks from Morocco
Love love watching your videos, jackie from the uk
Thank you Nick Spinelli for helping me out with my DJ career. You are very entertaining and helpful. Thanks man!
Your channel is making me a better DJ, thanks man
Great stuff Nick
Great video!!!
Love the content. 👍👍👍
I always felt weird putting certain songs in the wrong year but it made sense to me since certain songs sound from a different era, like if it’s a 90s song that’s sounds 80s I’ll keep in 80s.
Nick...You are the VERY BEST! Wanted to share three BANGERS (in this order) that are guaranteed to get the dance floor 100% back full right after the GARTER TOSS....JUMP INTO "Hipps Don't Lie" then "Party In the USA" and finally "Rockin Robin"...the ladies will run and hop and JUMP back to the dance floor with these 3...then you can take it anywhere from that.... Wanted to share! YOU ARE THE BEST! Mark "DJ2deep"
This guy cracks me up
Entertaining
Gloria EsteBan😂. Great vid. So many DJs prob watch you not necessarily to learn but to reassure themselves their mindset and relate.
White girl crate 😂😂😂😂😂
Love the vibe, bro 👍🏽👍🏽
Great content mate you’re fantastic 🙏🏽
Thanks Tony!!
Nick Spinelli we should thank you for sharing your knowledge.
🙏🏽.
You’re awesome Nick!❤
Thank you brother
Absolutely champion🙏🏽
Thank you Nick. I feel the fire again.
Man I have a ton of music on my computer. Definitely need to start organizing playlist. Preciate this video!
Brilliant video. On the ball Nick 🙏
Great content as always. We started doing this a couple years ago and it has paid HUGE dividends to us. Once or twice a year, we go through all of them again, add new songs and got rid of the "fluff." It's amazing how much easier every event has been since we started doing this. When we meet with our couples now, we talk about genres they like rather than individual songs. Makes prep time so much shorter too. Nice to see you sharing your folders. I'm sure it's worth every penny. Catch you next time you are spinning in Harrisburg. Stay safe.
Thanks bro! You too!
You need to add CUMBIAS to your latin “fuego” for sure every event has a 20% of people who are gonna know ( Los Angeles Azules, rigo tovar, celso pena) theres more but those are your openers
We should give the guy a Latin crate for sure 💯👊🏽
raymix❤️
@@allsoundmusicentertainment3736 yoo I need that 🤔
Loa Palmeras , Amar azul, Rafaga etc
Awesome video man! Thank you
Freshleecut thank you!!
Helpful like always! Thank you!
Thank you Nick!
of course thank you!
legend
Haha thanks man
White Girl Crate!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣I gotta do this!! That’s hilarious!
Really love this video!! It’s Mid August right now so I’m in the thick of my wedding season, (Toronto) and I’m starting to coast a bit. This gave me the motivation I need to play around with my crates and bring a fresh approach to my dancefloor. Great vid!!
I know this is an older vid but dang this helped he figure out my problem! I just had waaaay to many songs and not enough folders. It would take me 30 secs to find a song sometimes which is an eternity when you're mixing, as well as tons of stuff that just wasn't getting played so using the Serato play count feature most of my 0 plays are getting canned or refiled elsewhere. Good vid!
You are a genius I'm going to copy you if you don't mind 🤣🤣🤣
Thank you. You videos always are so informative and helpful.
LOL "Modern Rock" crate with all songs from 20 years ago, speaks to the state of how Rock has fallen off today
Another Banger! Do you never play country?
Thanks man! And not too often no.... not my expertise haha
Nick Spinelli if not expert in country, a popular country ballad is the way to go.
Thank you!!!
Thank you!
Rock on Nick. Great video and very informative 👍
Thanks for watching!
Wow, thank you soo much!
I dunno how well your music is gonna work on the west coast a lot of Latin people out here
Great stuff brother
Thanks Claudio!
great video man! lots of great info..
Another great vid nick , its funny bc I've recently adjusted my crate system to near enough exactly everything you've mentioned In this vid ✅🎯
Awesome
Thank you!
Don’t sleep on La Roux - Bulletproof 😆
Haha yesssss
Do you get request for reggae style music? I enjoy your videos. Very helpful. I've been DJing for years but your still teaching help tips. Thank you so much.
Nick! What’s your opinion on using the audio movie clips, or skits? At the right time of course
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, you made me LOL Nick with that WHITE GIRL CRATE! True that!!! Cheers!
Hi Nick! Im a wedding DJ from Russia and I want to say that me and my friends-Dj-s have almost the same crates as you are. Of course, we usually don't have "Latin" music in special folder/crate :) But the main difference is that many Djs, who I know, divide all music to "Foreign" and "Russian" and these are our main crates which include sub-crates similar to yours. And on most wedding parties usually plays music from "Russian" crate, of course :) and sub-crates often looks like "Rus-dance..." and then goes a date of creating this folder (and crate). And it always consist of bangers so you can easy find what you need. That might be interesting, i thought. ;)
Super helpful…unfortunately I foresee this being time consuming however worth not having that aweful feeling of being unsure or ill prepared behind the decks.
Love the content man! Need to add a Cumbia Crate to your Latin Fuego ;)
Damnit! “Uh yeah this white boy knows what he’s doing” I was just setting here working and listing to this video and that just caught me off guard for a good laugh 🤣🤣
lmaooo
Love this! I’m new to the dj game so this helps me get started well. Question, what about remixes, or like different versions of classic songs. Do you put those in the right spot in the crate based off the original? Or do you have a “remix folder?”
AHAHAHAAHAH I also have a 'chick songs' crate which I consider a get out of jail free card cause they are the songs you know girls are gonna be like 'OMG I LOVE THIS SONG'
Creat perfect club playlist that would be nice
@NickSpinelli Clean lyrics 🆚 Regular unedited songs…what is your opinion on this?
I think you mentioned something about clean songs here on this video…Does it have to do with the type of event you’re playing at or do you always play clean songs?
any tips for getting into weddings just to be able to hear the dj and watch them work?
Hey Nick, How are you? I hope you and your family are doing well. So in this video, you talk about how you organize your crates. But is there a software that you use as your main database or when you download new music do you just put it into your main library folder? Do you keep your main library folder organized as well or is it one big folder with all your songs in it and you use the DJ software to organize? Thank you for your time and stay safe.
Man old people HATE quick mixing. I don’t know how many times an old person has come up to ask me if I was gonna play the whole song at some point 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hey Nick… I know this is a old video but I have to ask you, how many versions do you have of each track in you crates. I Think it’s my biggest problem, that I maybe have 3-7 versions of each banger… Radio Edit, Beat intro, Acapella intro/outro. What do you do? Thanx fore allways great content😃🙌 Best regards from Dj Nicx in Denmark🇩🇰😃🙌
What's the best 3 songs for Bachata? I need to put that on my crates
Hi I have not seen your crates yet but I usually play for a Latin crowd and of course American music. I play all bangers. Switch out Elvis Presley and Etta James At Last for this song that I am going to tell you and the older folks will appreciate it like they did with me. Try giving them Europa by Gato Barbieri. It is a beautiful balad. Let me know what happens.
I just listen to Europa and DAMN that's fireeeeee. I promise you the next time I play a slow song (whenever that is lol) I'm gonna drop this. Thank you!!!
Nick Spinelli the very first time I heard Europa was a scene on the tv series Dallas in the 80’s. I fell in love with it then, and still a favorite now. 👍 stay safe Mr DJ. wherever you are.
doowopshopgal so cool, thank you!
AwosomE Nick! Do u mic off the head from different genre or have a prearranged Set?
Good job bro👍a lot of good info but you didn't mention cumbias - [Kumbia Kingz and Selena "Baila Esta Cumbia " ]you have to have at least that one song in your crates. Look it up on UA-cam.
Great content!! Question...Are the crates up to date???
Is there a way to create a folder/crate prior to opening Serato?
Afterwards, load that folder/crate in Serato and the folder/crate will be ready to use.
You can create folders where you store your music and then load those folders as crates into Serato... just make sure those folders contain only MP3s - no other files or sub folders
Hi Nick what would you consider to be the maximum number of tunes to have in a playlist to keep it manageable? Thanks
Nick Spanelli What Bpm do you consider Danceable I’m considering your Products I’m guessing your Crates start at 100 Bpm I can’t see you throwing own 120 Bpm and people just finished eating.
ALL BPMS are danceable if mixed and programed correctly. My crates generally range from 70BPM to 150BPM
What's that song in the beginning??
Add some soca music nick. Island mon. The bpms run from 95 all the way to 170
do you have a dance set banger dance crate for purchase?
Nicely tips bro, Do you ask clients for a music list or do you make it?
Great videos huge fan but I feel like the dance floor playlist should have more bangers for the price I paid
First of all, I curated these lists to include only the songs that actually work. There's no fluff what so ever. Second of all, it says in the description of each list exactly how many songs are on the list.
Nick Spinelli kind of a dick response but thanks
Gloria Esteban!?!? Esteban?!
Where do you buy your music?
you could just keep ur playlist simple and not have to make new crates just by hitting the most played in ur section for each playlist and u will see which songs u play the most that are ur own bangers
"white girl crate" i also have a "milf" crate full of def leppard and bon jovi, loll
Do you sell the files or just a list of the songs?
difference between club and wedding DJ is no one is coming back next week to hear the wedding DJ. being unique is fine for you, but with 70 years of top 10 lists, there’s plenty of tired and true known pop tunes with no complaints snot being boring except for your own personal muse.
man Nick, i comment in your videos while watching and then you say exactly what i was thinking.
yeah..like with SO much music, why ever play anything but a flow filler.
It really is for personal muse mostly, if I played the same shit every weekend I'd hate my life lol
@@NickSpinelli same
One question is better to have a external hard drive cor your mysic or is it better to have them in your laptop
With the new SSD's in Mac, it would be way faster and overall a better experience keeping it on your internal hard drive. Just don't forget to back that shit up!!
@@NickSpinelli whoch ssd is good i was thinking the samsung evo 1tb but it cost $130
🔥🙏🏽🫡
How many years took you to analyze all of it? 😂
Play some Bachata
Holy shit what's that???
😂 😂 I can imagine that actually happened to you 😂 😂
lmao it 100% did
Alto...lolol
Haha Alto = POOP
play bachata what is that hahaha :DDDD
lmao
$149 for a dancing songlist. No chance!
No Afro Create...???? 😉
Haha THEY AIN'T READY FOR THAT
I’ve never heard of any of these songs....where’s your 40’s n 30’s era bangerz?? 😬
Oh you're trying to make Harriet Tubman dance I SEE YOU
Nick Spinelli Bandz will make her dance!
Lol - no country xD
I can't stand bachata. love salsa merengue cambia latin club... not a fan of bachata