Basic Dj Skills 101

Personality Profile

Love of Music | Creative | Entrepreneur | Passionate | Dedicated

Course Overview

From turntables to laptops and beyond, the array of technology at the disposal of the modern DJ is almost endless. An exciting world where hardware meets human ingenuity to create genre bending, dance floor shattering performances.

Course Curriculum 

Practical

• The functionality of a professional turntable CD player
• Cueing and control
• Beat matching
• Using the headphones – monitoring
• Applications and functionality of a professional DJ mixer
• Bars & beats
• Basic music structure
• Advanced music structure and selection
• Training your ear
• Manipulating the cycles, patterns and sequences within music

Theory

• Knowing your equipment
• Defining and understanding the various styles/genres of music
• Defining and understanding the structure of music
• understanding and manipulating the mixer
• The responsibilities of a professional DJ

Structure And Attendance

The duration of the DJ101 course can be up to a maximum duration of 8-weeks. Students will attend class twice weekly. One practical lecture and one theory lecture per week.

Classes can also be condensed into full time study of 2 hours per day x 8 days. Students will receive a "short learning programme" certificate on successful completion. Suggested timetable, can be amended to suit individual: