<story><title>How to get started with DJing</title><url>https://medium.com/@asantash/how-to-get-started-with-djing-495c275be5e4#.2ajfzv1c4</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>empath75</author><text>Okay, so I was a rave DJ in the early 2000s and opened for some of the most popular DJ&amp;#x27;s in the world at sold out clubs and I&amp;#x27;m about to give some real advice.&lt;p&gt;Yes, all of this stuff about producing music is important, but people who can mix records are a dime a dozen. You need to be able to do it, but it&amp;#x27;s not enough to get gigs.&lt;p&gt;The way you get gigs is to be popular. You need to go clubbing every weekend. You need to go to after parties. You need to promote on social media. You need to throw your own parties and book other DJ&amp;#x27;s so they&amp;#x27;ll book you at theirs.&lt;p&gt;Nobody is going to book you on talent. You get booked because you get people in the door and that really only has a little bit to do with talent and a lot to do with personality and networking.&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;ll never make a living that way, though, because nobody pays money for local DJ&amp;#x27;s except at weddings and bar mitzvahs.&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, you can spend 10 years in your bedroom learning how to be a really good music producer and hope some popular DJ signs your single and then gradually build a following and then maybe in five more years you might make what a junior sysadmin makes.</text></comment>
<story><title>How to get started with DJing</title><url>https://medium.com/@asantash/how-to-get-started-with-djing-495c275be5e4#.2ajfzv1c4</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dpc59</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m going to seem like an elitist prick, but in my opinion DJing is absolutely useless if you don&amp;#x27;t produce&amp;#x2F;compose. Basic 2 decks DJing is fucking boring, learn how to play instruments and all the theory behind pop music, then figure out the software and hardware to play live sets. Obviously you&amp;#x27;re going to need to understand the basics of mixing to play live sets, but playing a regular DJ set in front of an audience to me is the same thing as covering stairway to heaven or wonderwall. Keep practicing until you&amp;#x27;re actually good. All of my friends who could play instruments had a much easier time getting into producing than the people who never learned a single scale. And it&amp;#x27;s not just the composition aspect, it&amp;#x27;s all the sound design, sampling and just understand the programs that gets easier.</text></comment>