DJ BETTER - WHAT TO DO IF YOU CAN'T FIND THE NEXT TRACK!?!?
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- A life saving tip to save your butt if you can't find the next track in time during a live set!
Here is the link to my recent live opening set for Steve Lawler @ Nest, Toronto, on May 12, 2018 - I hope you enjoy:
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Dude these videos are honestly the best tutorial videos i have found on youtube. I know you are a busy man, but i would suggest a really good tutorial topic would be using the high pass and low pass filters in longer transitions and blends. I havent really seen any other video of this on youtube which goes through this, and i think it would be a very helpful topic. Thanks again for the sick videos, i hope you continue to post informative content on the reg.
Will do this for next video. Thanks for the suggestion!
Damn, 0 cuts and you still have my attention at full throughout the whole video...that's some great presenting. Really helpful tips tho, cheers and thanks dude
The best DJ Tip of the century!
You really pushing DJ Sets Forward!!!! Thanks a lot!
From my vinyl days if I was focused I usually was thinking about 3 to 4 tracks ahead of time, but does not always workout. Sometimes you have to change on the fly. Great tip.
Why did the video suddenly end at 13:35?
Amazing tip, thank you so much for this and all of your videos, your explanations are super clear and helpful! Hope to listen to you live soon in Toronto.
Thank you!
This is a brilliant subject for a video. As a club/cafe-ish DJ as I am this is something you will run into a lot, especially when you do longer sets (mine are usually 8 hour shifts) and you kind of have to take requests too. Also, to me the fun of DJ'ing is just improvising and seeing where the night goes and then you really have to keep your head in the game (even if you are not mixing everything in the case of pop-music). I know a lot of starting DJ's panick because of this and will run into this, but never saw anyone do a video on this. Just shows you know what you are doing and you made your hours as a DJ. Congrats on landing your gig, keep it up! Subscribed :)
Also, some tips of mine to add onto your tip: Use the tag list! There is a great big button on the CDJ, which takes you to your tagged list with one press of a button. Really saves on scrolling thru your folders. It is also perfect for when you come across a song you MIGHT want to play. Tag it, and if the players are linked they are in the tag list of all CDJ's, so you can easily got to that song on your next deck. Second: make a neutral loop in your back-up songs. It's easy with beatmachting, imo, especially when you put them on the hot cue's and their memories.
Thanks for the good feedback and your comments! I 100% agree with the tip to use the tagging feature. I could only imagine the challenge in playing sets that long, even caused by the fatigue alone, much less running out of music you want to play. The longest set I played is 5 hours so far.
Last weekend I was watching an interview with Steve Lawler where he explained that his big break in Ibizia was getting a residency at Cafe Mambo where he started during the afternoon and went into the night, so also 8 hour shifts. He would play jazzy acid house stuff in the daytime, ambient during the (famous) sunsets, and then deep house at night. At least he had 3 sub-genres to cycle through. The amount of music you have to have with you and know very well is a serious challenge!
I Dj in a bar and love the fact the crowd throw in requests, I see it as a challenge to mix everything even pop tunes. I have to get a bit creative with loops, for example, set up a hot cue on the break/drop, loop the outro (the end of a pop track usually has at least one bar of clean beats) to mix the track in and then use the hot cue to cut it to the break/drop. I also DJ for up to 8 hours and have to do quick mixes, toilet breaks are required, again I love these mixes they are harder but when you pull off a seamless mix it's more rewarding.
Glad to know there are some real djs, who face similar struggles.
What you don’t like mixing in that Katy Perry request over Josh Wink? (Me neither!)
Thank you, next great video, do your job, you're very good in this
“Little Helpers” always save the night
Señor Arman please come back!!!
I have a question for you. How do you make sure you don't play any songs in your 3 hours set that Steve (or any other DJ) is planning to play?
Good question
Agree good question
skip unnecessary intro 2:50
Same with every single one of his videos. I like the channel but way to much time talking about himself. Also production quality needs to increase significantly
@@zascar No one is stopping you from making tutorials, you know?
@Colly then u do it? He is making the world a better sounding place, great mixer and Engineerx
@@zascar What a hater Jesus, such a shitty energy you have.
@@agustinamaria6774 Criticism is important
I have been there and it’s terrifying until you’ve been through it and survived. When I put a set collection together, I’ll put a few “get out of trouble” tracks in there that are either compatible or detuned so that they don’t clash. Grabbing a loop at the tail end of the mixout tends to kill the groove, which just makes you panic even more.
But as you’ve said before, the crowd will likely not even notice a key clash so just suck it up and keep going. NEVER acknowledge this unless they are you’re people. And remember, if you never screw up, you aren’t taking enough chances.
Very well said mate
MY EXPERIENCE DJING JUNGLE AND DRUM AND BASS ON VINYL WAS TO PUT 10 OR 12 TRACKS TOGETHER WELL AND WING THE REST I WAS ONLY YOUNG AND LITERALLY WAS THROWN STRAIGHT IN AT DEEP END THE GOOD TIMES
more tutorials on the decks!
although I wish you would have hooked up a mic while you were djing.. or at least added subtitles to explain what you're doing on the decks.
Solid advice.
What a bloody great tip!!!
arman you are very informative.thankyou
two and half minutes left on the track..... luxury...... i'm going to the bar and mix the next track at 15 secs remaining.
Helpful tip, thx!
Would you like to explain how arranging sets isn't something that true dj's do? When 9/10 dj's do this,. Freeflowing gigs based on experience is one thing, but for new dj's Pre-Arranging gigs to get to know the tracks better is the single most important rule!.. Know thyself and thy Library! Also arranging sets in advance gives you time to dance with the crowd between tracks instead of just standing there face down on the decks during the entire set..
I wich i had the money to buy all that and start making music, great tip tho, your videos are great.
The way I avoid this problem is to use a track list, but build it, add to it, and remove tracks from it, or change the order as I go, rather than build a set from start to finish, using the side list in Virtual DJ. That would probably be difficult to do using CDJ's, but you could make a folder with a few songs that you know go well for each subgenre or energy level and fall back on that, or use a few mini track lists.
Failure to plan : plan to fail!!!
Thanks for the video! I really apreciate your tips. I was thinking that maybe better would be a camera setting directly above your hands - your moves would be more visible and tutorials more effective.
GOD bless You dude!
I normally just search by the key and then look for the similar BPM as soon as I start the first
track and that also helps me, I am going to try this way too!
Great track selection dude
I'm so nervous for my graduation gig, lol😂
Whats that? House party to nightclub? Good luck!
Great advise!
Track ids please?and what genre is this?
how do you prepare a gig ??? AND WHAT KIND OF VIBE YOU SEEK ???
great tip !
Id on the tracks you played in the video please ?
How do you recognize a song that always works ?
Callous hands
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I really like your videos and ideas you give, but you should have better audio on them! Cheers
Most DJs prepare there set other wise you have no idea what songs gel really well together......don’t agree in what he says with this
9:44 I see I am not the only one that uses incense and techno to appease the machine spirits.
Aare you armenian?
Yes, half! How did you know?
the name arman is only armenian
Try mixing Drum and Bass, that's gonna be a 1,5 minute song
3:30 "true DJing" what? Hosting a radio show...
Arts and crafts, man. I believe he is talking about craftsmanship within DJing for a live audience.
Use a loop, grow some balls and figure it out lol