DJ Music

DJing, isn’t really about your DJ proess, or showing off your DJ skills (ok well, maybe with the exception of battle DJing), live DJing, on the radio, or having to DJ a club and most importantly when DJing as a mobile DJ for a wedding. DJing is all about your audience. As a DJ its all about reading the crowd, responding to them, teasing them, leading them and giving them what they want. A set is about structure, about DJing a collection of music that the crowd will respond to and react to at a given time during their night.

To Program a DJ set, you want to have a beginning, middle and end, you want it to fit neatly between the set of the out going DJ and the next DJ to come after you. You’ll want to DJ music that fits the time of the night, and the style of music being played.

Every DJs set needs to have a beginning, middle and end. the body of the set needs to have peaks and troughs taking the audience through a roller coaster of different music sensations. Don’t rely on just hard hitting DJ floor fillers that are totally unoriginal. DJing is a dance, its about cooing the crowd, so tease the crowd, give them tracks that fit and that surprise them.

Choose music that goes together, pick out a group, then whittle it down, pick out another group and whittle it down, do the same to a third group then combine the remaining music into one group and cut that down, so you have a core set with a few spare incase you need to throw a few curve balls. Now sort that group intosome sort of order, so you have a rough idea of what to play at what ever point in the set.

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