For the last 26 years. I've been rocking stages playing clubs and having a lot of fun as a DJ and turntablist. And in that time I've seen and learned a lot now it's time for me to share that knowledge by answering the questions that can help. You become a better DJ. I'm BJT 11 and this is the Sheridan College podcast for DJs. Today's podcast is brought to you by bands Jewels one two, one two, what's going on? If your boy DJ tlm you checking out the Sheridan College podcast for DJ's episode 10. It's 2019. This is season 2. This is my Q&A show for DJ's. I share my 26 plus years of DJ experience and I try to answer as many questions as I can add as much value to the DJ Community as I possibly can and sometimes I'll just have some DJ related topics that I want to talk about or just Current projects that I'm working on and I take care of all of that right here in the podcast. I want to thank you for tuning in. If you're new to the podcast. I drop a new one every Monday and you can find me on any podcast platform if you want to check out more of my DJ related content. Make sure you check me out on YouTube. That's DJ tlm TV on YouTube and for all my info just go to DJ TL. M.com. All right. Normally I post a question on Instagram and I asked you to just leave me questions for the next podcast episode. I did not do that today. So in this case, we're going to the comment section on YouTube. So my DJ tlm TV comment section. I have over four hundred and thirty videos there and in my YouTube creator app. I have the option just to check out all of the comments that are posted under any of my videos. So in this case, I'm just going to scroll right through and I want to get into some of the comments I saw. Surrounding my topic about the end of turntables in clubs. Now if you tuned in last week, I talked about a question and the question was if I thought that turntables would be leaving clubs because of the rain 12 now already said that a lot of clubs here in the Netherlands actually don't have turntables as their standard setup at they do have turntables available in the club. So they have some stored Somewhere In the Venue, but they can bring them out when people need turntables and fact is a lot of DJ's who prefer turntables are even willing to bring their own turntables for specific gigs. The question was it the rain 12 was going to be the reason turntables would leave the club and my answer is no and the general consensus in the comment section is also know because a lot of people are just seeing that the rain twelves aren't in clubs. So they're not replacing turntables. A lot of clubs didn't have turntables anyway, or they didn't see turntables, but the rain 12 Not replacing those turntables. That's also one of the reasons why I don't call the rain 12 a game changer because it is not one of those things that's going to have that type of impact on the DJ culture. Now, I do see a lot of video material with DJ's using brain 12 and you do have DJ's that will bring their own rain 12 to a venue and I've done that myself once but for the most part people won't do that and they'll play on whatever's in The club, I know you cdjs or two turntables with DVS and that's why phase will have a bigger impact because you can take face to any club. And as long as they have turntables with rotating platter. So if the platters are still spinning you can use phase but I do want to get into the fact that I was asked about my opinion when it came to the issues with phase and my answer was I don't know about the issues besides some of the things I've read online because I don't have my face. System yet. I'm still waiting. It should be arriving soon, but I don't have it yet. I have heard people talk about sync issues and stuff like that. And I know I saw a comment in here by Cleveland Terry bones. I hope that's how you pronounce your last name and check them out on YouTube as well because I know he's made a video about phase. He's done like a review and he's tested it and he's waiting on the firmware update because there are Some issues but not enough to prevent you from using them but enough that you have to think about them while using it. Yeah, there seems to be a drift issue and hopefully firmware will fix that. I have no doubt that they're going to be able to fix issues like that with firmware updates. But if that's going to be something that happens soon. I don't know and there have been a couple of issues when it comes to waiting time and phase that's been the main complaint for a lot of people who pre-ordered They're phase units over a year ago. And finally now they have them and communication hasn't been totally smooth. So I hope that their updates are going to be coming out a little more smoothly or at least that they communicate the the release of that as soon as possible because if I was a brand and I was launching a brand new product. I know not everything is going to be perfect. You're going to run into some Way she is but I would try to stay on top of that to make sure I keep a clear open line of communication with the consumer and take their input. But also make sure I keep them up-to-date when it comes to what's happening what they're working on and when we can expect updates and stuff like that. Um, all right, let me see what is in here. I'm 41, and I've been thinking about DJing since my teens, I recently bought an entry level controller and people are losing their minds over my mixes can't believe how addictive it is. How supportive the DJ Community is yeah, man. That's great to hear that's always great to hear 41 that just reminds me of the fact that I've talked about this more and more that your age is of no importance. If you feel DJing and something you want to do and you're 11 go for it. You're 41 go for your 51 go for it. And DJing does not mean that you have to play in clubs. That week you could have all the fun in the world by just DJing at home and every once in a while, maybe if you have like a family gathering or some type of local event, you can bring out your stuff and play there as well. I mean DJing is just fun. So don't let anything hold you back just to make sure you get yourself a set and have some fun with it. And while I'm on that subject, I'm currently I've talked about this in the past couple of weeks because this is something that's really taking up a lot of my time. I'm right now I'm currently working on my first official DJ course and that is definitely aimed at the beginner DJ. So whatever your age is if you're starting out right now that course is going to be all for you and my main goal with that course is to make sure that you have the right foundation. So it doesn't matter if you want to become a club DJ Festival DJ or just play at home having that right foundation. Is just the thing you need to set you up for success. And if you just going to play at home to set you up to have more fun. You can buy a set and just play around with it at home. That's going to be massive fun. I know just playing the music you love having no idea how to mix you're still going to have fun. But if you learn those fundamental skills and techniques the knowledge that comes with it that's going to help you out a lot because was once you understand the structure of songs and you get a little insight into how and when you're supposed to mix and you start to hear yourself do mixes that actually make sense. So they're in sync. You got the EQ right? You got the timing right? First time I did that that blew my mind and I was just thinking about that today. Actually when the first time I had an a cappella and that a capella was synced up with an instrumental and I got it to work. So I had synced right and the timing was right that to me was like mind-blowing that I was able to make my own version of a song by grabbing two records one instrumental one acapella. And now I was hearing a totally new version of a song that I already loved and if you're doing stuff like that timing and being able to beat match is so important because during these last I don't know whatever 25 years. I've heard so many let's call a mashups where DJ's are using a cappella instrumental where DJ's were either not beat matching correctly. So the acapella was in there at the right point, but the temple was wrong and you could hear it get out of sync and then the flow of the acapella just doesn't make sense anymore. That's a horrible sound or to me. Even worse is when you hear that the Beats were matched correctly, but the acapella was placed on the wrong count. And obviously the DJ who's doing a mash-up is not hearing it. But if it's one of your favorite tracks and you know that track by heart, you know exactly how all the lyrics go how it's supposed to be a flowed you name it and you hear it, and it's Placed incorrectly on an instrumental on the wrong count, it totally destroys the song and I that's like one of the things I could never stand that was just like abuse of songs to me that can all be prevented. If your foundation is, correct. Once you know how to count on you understand how timing works you're not going to drop that acapella on the wrong count. You're going to get it right and you're going to hear if it's not right. I was blessed to just just I don't know kind of have that ability drumming helped out a lot of course, but I had an ear for that and some people will just have that ear for it and some DJ's will tell you that they feel all of these tutorials and all of this technical explaining is a bunch of BS that it's all about feeling the music but fact just is for a lot of people it isn't. Yes, you're supposed to Feel the music but it's about More Than A Feeling. Some people just do not have that written legal sense built in that they can automatically here when a beat is not match correctly or if you're dropping something on the wrong count for a lot of people that is not a natural instinct and you're going to have to learn how that works. I I can't remember if I absolutely knew how that work before I started drumming. My guess is I had a rhythmical sense. Listen to a lot of music. I just had a feeling for but still drumming taught me all about the structure because when your drumming you also learn how to work with Beats bars and phrases, even though I've never used those terms back then I learned about measures which is the same thing as a bar and you actually learn to read these sheets of musical paper, but drum not notes, but just the drum patterns you learn how to Read those and perform those and I'm sure that helped me out. But I also have an ear for key because I could hear when certain songs would Clash in the melody. A lot of people don't hear that and you have to teach them and you can't teach them. That's the beautiful thing about the internet. You have a chance to actually teach people and that's going to help you improve your playing as well. So yeah my I love it. I mean I digress that happens sometimes but yeah when I think of stuff I get to say it. That's why I have my podcast. All right, so let me go on so I'm still waiting for the elite mixer release reloop reloop. Look good, too. I'm going to order phase. Which one is the elite mixer. That's the reloop, right? Still need to get my hands on that but I don't have it. Not right now. Let's see. What else do we have in here? So here's another one rain twelves are not going to be making their way into clubs in the u.s. In my opinion and I spent a lot of spots in NYC in fact vinyl is being used a lot these days. So it's going to be turntables and cdjs for the time being phase is going to be useful as you said because you can still use real vinyl. All right, that's good to hear. I hope you're a Yankee fan and not just wearing the Hat because it's dope we take the Bronx bombers seriously in NYC baby. No, I am not a Yankee fan. I wear because I like to NY hat. Yes, and I have that right to because I'm a tourist. Look. I'm not a u.s. Resident so I don't have to claim any City or any team like that. And I always like to NY hat. I mean for me my love with the u.s. Definitely came from hip-hop and Hip-Hop that influenced me most was definitely east coast and New York. I love West Coast hip hop as well. But New York was special for me. And if I'm not mistaken, I'm not a hundred percent. Sure. I bought that one in New York, but a lot of those hats there, so no, I'm not gonna apologize. AJ's for that. I'm glad you take it serious. I mean we have the same thing over here. I'm from Amsterdam and you will not catch me walking around with merchandise from soccer clubs from other cities, and I'm not even into football soccer. I'm not even into that besides training my son's team coaching my son's team, but this is Amsterdam. So if I'm rocking anything, it's going to be our clock. It's going to be Ajax all the way. So I understand where you're coming. From but then again if I see someone from New York rocking one of our caps, I'm not going to be mad about it. If you just bought the cap because it was dope or because it's at Amsterdam on the side. So yeah, that is what it is. Why would anyone dislike this dude's video? Keep up the good work? All right. Let's get into that for a second. This doesn't just relate to me but to everyone on social media. This is bigger than YouTube. It's all social media, but especially when it comes to YouTube in my videos, I No, I always have at least two people who have made it their their hobby, I guess to make sure they dislike my video. I always have like one or two. I'm very content with the amount of likes compared to dislikes that I received for my videos because it definitely paints a picture that shows me that people appreciate the videos and that there's a pretty positive vibe around that hole. Channel you can see that in the comments as well. There's like hardly any negativity and YouTube can be a cesspool when it comes to that. If you go to comment sections for certain types of videos. Whoo, it's incredible. It's terrible to see the amount of negativity. You see there you hardly see that when it comes to all of my videos on my channel a lot of positivity. Sometimes there will be discussions. But even though discussions are handled in a mature fashion, so I really like that but There are always like one or two people that are soon as my video drops did there for that dislike? I would almost say that they subscribe and have the notifications on just so they can dislike but I don't worry about that. I never worry about that. So even if these people are genuinely not liking the video and they decided that they feel is their duty to let me know by leaving that dislike. That's perfectly fine. That's where I'm really fine because you're never going to please everyone so I don't worry about that. But I believe these are I don't know who call them trolls are not Trolls. But like I said, I feel there's one or two people who just like to dislike every video and that's cool. They still watch the video and this like is still engagement. So YouTube likes engagement so I don't worry about that. But the reason I bring it up is I know a lot of people do vote worried about likes and dislikes on Media so not specifically YouTube. But like if you look at Instagram same thing like a lot of people also people I talked to they post something and if they don't get enough likes right away, they get worried about it or they start to second-guess themselves and my opinion is just don't worry about that too much. Just post the content you want to post the content you would like to post and if people like it they like it if they don't they don't but don't take it more serious than that. That it's not like an indication of how the world feels about you and people have the right to like or dislike your content, but I know people who will actually delete posts after a couple of hours if they haven't received enough likes because they feel it will look bad to have that on their profile for some it might be business related that they want to have the facade that every post a post has an enormous amount of likes and anything that has less still delete. I've never done that. I'm not into that some of my posts on Instagram only have a hundred likes While others will have 1100. So I take a look at that and I'll analyze to a certain degree and it teaches me something about my audience. So for instance on Instagram, I know that if I post pictures with DJ equipment or pictures of me having a gig especially videos of me performing, they're gonna do a lot better. Than videos about anything else even if I'm in the picture, but it's about something else not dj gear or gig most likely it's going to have a lot less likes. Now if it was all about likes for me, I would just post DJ gear and DJ Gig shots, but that's not what it's about. I mean I post whatever I want to post and I know a certain post that is not going to get the amount of likes. I don't care if I feel like posting it. I'm going to post that so please Take that too. Seriously and just post what you want to post man. That's so cool. Makes it easy to build a stunning website for your music and minutes. You can choose from hundreds of mobile-friendly themes and then customize your design and content in a few clicks with bands. 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I would definitely not change my name I would know that. I mean I've used this DJ name for 26 years or longer. I don't even know how I lost cause I think it's 27 years actually, so I'm not going to change that name. Now if that other DJ was somehow take legal steps and and they would have like the the the trademark and you name it if I would have to think of some type of trick that would allow me to still use it. I would probably do that, but we would have to see I mean that is something that could potentially happen that if you have a DJ name and another DJ has that same name uses that same name and they turned this into a legal situation. That might be a different. And scenario so they trademarked the name is their name and then maybe they can force you to stop using that name now. I think it also matters on what country you're in. So if you're in the same country that might legally be a little bit easier to do. I don't know how that works. If one person for instance lives in Austria and is a DJ there and the other one is a DJ in Mexico. I don't know how easy it would be to actually sue someone and claim that name for yourself, but I would not. Change that but I think it also depends on if you're in the same. In the same pool. Let me put like this. Are you the same type of DJ? Are you playing the same type of music? Are you in the same area? That might make it more problematic if there was another djt alignment Amsterdam or at least in the Netherlands that will be an issue because if my name is on a flyer but it's not me because another DJ's use that's a name people here could assume that I would be the DJ who's attending and playing. We don't want that confusion. I mean the other DJ doesn't want that confusion either because imagine if that DJ is doing a solo gig and you using the name tlm and then you have like a bunch of people in the audience looking at that DJ. Like who are you? I mean I can say that here because I know there's no one else with that name and if someone will start to use that name now, they're 27 years too late because most people will put my face with that name, but I All those things play a role. So if you're into totally different genre different place, it might not matter that much. But even then I mean, that's tricky. It's a little bit tricky. I mean, I can't speak anymore because I've never been in that situation. I've advised new DJ's against certain names. I know one DJ who wanted to name himself DJ scratch. So I told them I don't think that's a good idea. There's already a legendary DJ scratch from EPMD out. You've been DJing, I mean I think over 30 years. Well known within the hip-hop scene legendary status. You name it still DJing. I don't think it's a good idea to give yourself that name. So in that case and I there were a couple other situations as well where people came to me and asked me for my opinion when it came to a DJ name and when I heard the name and heard that it was like a familiar name, I definitely advise them not to do it but in any other scenario Mario I don't know what I would do. All right, so I'm going to talk about a comment that I saw and this is a comment that was made for my no regrets. No shortcut video podcast episode from a couple of weeks ago and the common here is that mf'er is forgetting that the goal is not to be the best DJ in the world. But to enjoy what you're doing and the whole process of learning and failing, I agree 90% Yes, I've That the process and enjoying the process is very important when I think back. To the beginning days of my DJ Adventure. I have a lot of fun thinking about that because I remember having a lot of fun and this started before I had my first real DJ set this started when I first had vinyl and I started to play vinyl on two different sets. So we had to set in the living room. I had a little set in the house in my room and back in the days those sets would include a turntable. So I hooked those two up so I had two different Stereo sets with a turntable and that allowed me to play vinyl on both decks no pitch so I couldn't beat match half of the things I did sounded terrible, but I just love the fact that I was able to play multiple tracks at the same time and I will grab an acapella of one track and instrumental and I would just scratch no fader. Just moving it back and forth while the beat was playing that to me was already amazing and incredible and I loved it. Course when I got my first DJ set already had a little vinyl collection and really started to practice working on my mixes working on my turntablism a mixer with no crossfader learning how to backspin with just the up faders recording on cassette listening back going in again doing the mix again learning improving listening to albums listening to scratches on an album trying to emulate those scratches that was done with a lot of fun. I enjoyed doing it. That's why I could do it for hours on because it was something I love to do and I enjoyed myself to the fullest during that process now, especially when you start to progress that helps out a lot that's motivating. So once you learn how to do a scratch once you get that beats to match another beat those things make you feel invincible and I enjoyed that entire process over the years upgrading gear learning new. Meek's doing my first gig in front of people playing My First do my first DJ battle all of that feeling the nerves then feeling happy afterwards making mistakes during live shows you name it? It's all part of the game all part of the process and I loved it still love it. But the part where I disagree is when you say the goal is not to be the best DJ in the world. I feel you can enjoy the process to the fullest, but you can definitely Physically feel that you want to become the best the best whatever in this case, we're talking about DJing but this could be the best whatever. I know this probably plenty of basketball players out there who enjoy the process but in the back of their mind, they were thinking about becoming the best. You can't tell me that Kobe Bryant wasn't thinking about being the best and he probably enjoyed the process at the same time. You can tell me Lebron wasn't thinking about that. You can tell me MJ was always thinking about that being the best so No, I disagree. You can definitely feel that as your goal to become the best, but just don't forget to enjoy the process at the same time and realize if you're starting out now and you have it set in your mind that you want to become the best that you should strive to become the best. But enjoy that process and understand. It's going to be a long process, especially if you want to become the best the best takes a lot of work a lot of hours. Is months years you name it we can attest it out when I say we I'm talking about brain power the MC that I work with toward. I haven't torn with for 21 years. I remember the first time that we were competing. This was a national contest here in the Netherlands. I don't know if you could call it a talent show, but it was kind of like a talent show, but with a lot of actually talented artists and you would do a couple of free shows and if you Would make it to the finals you will play in a venue called Paradiso here in Amsterdam a big venue and you will be judged by a panel and the audience and I remember we practiced like eight hours a day for that weeks on weeks on weeks just on and on forever. Why because we wanted to be the best not just for that event, but that was on our minds at that time, but we have a lot of fun doing that but Were working nonstop because we had it in our minds that we wanted to be the best and as an end result of that during that event. We won the main prize that is the judge the panel's prize. So they choose a winner we won there was also a People's Choice Award we won there was a best MC. He won there was a best DJ I want the only category we didn't win was best singer. That's because we did. Not sing beyond that we just destroyed the competition because we work for it love the process but we had it in our minds to go for it. Not just to have fun having fun. That's great. But there's nothing wrong with being hungry and wanting that prizes. Well that price can be an actual prize in the contest. But that price can also be just to become the best so making a combination out of those two. That hunger and enjoying the process to me. That's the perfect combination and that's what you want to have. That's going to be someone who could take it really really far. So that's just something I wanted to add. This is not really answering a question. But sometimes I see your comment and I could just put a reply in text and leave it there. But in this case, I feel a video makes a lot more sense. It will probably reach more people and I hope to inspire you with this as well because you might be at home, right? Now and maybe you have that hunger and somehow you feeling like it's not happening fast enough for it's not working out for you. Don't forget to enjoy the process as well because that can motivate you and get you going again as well. But that's it. All right. I see another comment here for my setting cue points for your whole music collection. And that's also a podcast episode and the common is setting cue points in advance is an opportunity for you to really get to know the tracks your ad. Into your collection as you're listening to them since as tlm said another videos is crucial to know the music you intend to play I usually set acupoint on the first beat another one on the last beat of the intro for me to quickly see if the intro is four bars or eight bars long that still but you see that at a glance on the waveform. Anyway, then I do the same thing on the first and second hook for me to know where to start might just where to start my transition whether I decide to Let the song play until the 1st or 2nd hook depending on whether your audience is really feeling the track. So in this case really using the Q points as a visual marker not just the point where you can go to real quick. But using the Q points as a visual marker is a very smart tactic especially for songs that you don't know that well, then that visual indicator can really help you out. Also like the fact that you're talking about the first beat and that last beat before the new phrase begins. Begins where mostly the verse will begin because yes, some intros will be only four bars. Some will be a bars and you can tell by looking at the waveform but having that extra visual cue Point can be a nice addition. All right, I guess you play a song without putting any Q points in it, but you got to know that the song you got to know that song about heart. So you might want to put Q points in it. Anyway as you're practicing because if not, like someone else said in the comments, what's the point of playing digitally? Yeah true. I mean there's a lot of songs that I know by heart. But in that case I still have q points in they're not as a visual indicator, but because I want to be able to work fast and if I know like the first beat I always have that just because if I'm beat-matching and I have it synced. I want to go back to the beginning with a push of a button instead of having to rewind the record or lifting up the needle so that's an important point for me. Then there might be other parts in the track that I I want to go too quick and that's why I have q points in there. Even if it's track that I know by heart the main goal of Q point system will fast while your DJ your time is limited when you're spinning and you want to move quick. So a lot of things are going to happen that will slow you down. You beat matching and want to get to the beginning of the song again. Yes. That's what I just said. Exactly. Yeah, you were playing it going to play a song But realize it doesn't fit the Ambiance your track skipped and you do want to start it over. Special part in the song comes up for which you have a little Q Point juggle. Yep, all of that but also a member of staff comes and talks to you a customer comes to request a song you say hi to your friends some flirtatious chick comes to talk to you, etc, etc. You want to be able to move as fast as you can to reduce reaction time and lower the stress that comes from adapting to an unexpected situation. That's a very good point because especially if you're not used to playing in front of people yet. You need to realize that once you get into the scenario of playing in front of people where people have access to you. It means that a lot of people are going to have a chance to disturb disrupt or at least get in your work space while you're attempting to perform some mean well, some are very egoistic and they are just About themselves and some actually don't mean well at all whatever the case may be people could disturb your set. So in that case Q points can definitely help out as well. I've been in a situation where someone was really distracting right before I wanted to make a transition. I had to brush them off quick then jump back to the set. If at that point, I had to manually bring back the vinyl bring back the needle Look for the beginning. I would not be in time for the transition. In this case. I brush the person off ran back to the set hit my cue point to go back to that first beat because I only had like three more counts before the hook started hit that Q point and I was able to just bring it in just in time for the transition without key points. That would not be possible and I've been in plenty of situations before my digital time where I was using vinyl wear something like that happened. And then I missed my window and then I had to wait an entire other verse before I could do my transition in the next hook and that was always really frustrating. So Q points can really help you out. Same thing with like short Loops that you can activate it any point stuff like that can help you out if you run into situations like that. So so it's always good to hear from actual experience DJ's because I can recognize a lot of the things. He's talking about and that's what I love about the modern technology. I don't feel it takes over the DJ job in any way. I feel it makes our job easier because we had to deal with situations in the past that went beyond our control and I have no desire to keep it real for some of these purists and continue to live in those circumstances when there's no need to same thing with needles that used to skip Now if you play with Cerrado or DJ software and you have it in relative mode the skips. Don't affect your track the way they did now, is that a skill factor? No, it's not. I've played in clubs where you had like this unsteady stage and any time someone would touch the DJ booth your record with Skip and this was a place where people were leaning up against the DJ booth. So a lot of times your records would skip now that's not something I want to continue to happen. But at that particular venue, it would always happen now with Cerrado that change the situation even if the record would skip the music will continue to play straightaway. It was less of an issue compared to when your needle on normal vinyl skips. And now you're all the way back to the beginning of the song or you're in the next song the whole vibe is dead. You have to lift the needle up no sound bring it back to the beginning. That's so awful situation. There's no way I would continue to play. A risk that if I don't have to because that's not taking away anything from your skills. That's why it's so tiring to talk to certain people about technological development because they feel that now it's all about the technology and not about the skill. But a lot of these things had nothing to do with skill at all. So yeah, man, it's perfect to have stuff like that and that's a very good use of Q points. So thank you for that comment. All right. I'm going to keep Nice and short for this episode. That's because I have to get back to work. I have a couple of videos. I need to record got some DJ City videos. I need to shoot. So I hope you enjoyed this episode share the knowledge podcast for DJ's episode 10 season to 2019. We're already in May time is going fast. I'll be back next week with a new episode. So if you're new to the podcast thanks for tuning in. Hopefully you'll be back next time make sure you share the podcast if you get the opportunity, so All know that I have an actual full audio version because some people still think that all I do is shoot videos and when they see the video podcast Clips, they feel that that is my podcast and they're missing out on at least half of the content from every week's episode because I don't post everything on YouTube talking about YouTube if you haven't checked out my YouTube Channel DJ tlm TV, make sure you do because I have a lot more stuff going on over there as well. I'll talk more about my DJ course as this develops and in the very near future. I'm going to be looking for five to ten serious people serious people who are in their beginning stages and really feel they need to learn more about all of the DJ fundamentals. I'm going to be looking for five to 10 people to test my DJ course and I want people who actually still need to learn because Cuz that's going to be the best indicator if the course is effective. So if you already know how to DJ in that case we can never tell if you learned something from the course or not. If you don't know how to DJ yet or are really in your beginning stages or you're still struggling with a lot of the fundamentals then this is something that could work. Now that's going to be a little while that's going to be dragged probably next week or two weeks when I start to really call. People for that but if you're listening to podcasts right now, are you are beginner and you are interested. I'm I'm all will be selecting five to 10 people to test the course. You're going to have to do the entire course from beginning to end and the only thing that I'll ask from you is that you give me the feedback and write me a testimonial that's going to be it. So you're getting that DJ course entirely free and trust me. That is a very Very nice discount. I'll talk more about that. Very very soon. All right. Thanks for tuning in. See you next week.
Welcome to season 2, episode 10, brought to you by Bandzoogle. Try Bandzoogle free for 30 days: https://bandzoogle.com/websites-for/djs?pc=share Use the code SHARE for 15% off your first year. * Your age doesn't matter if you want to DJ. * My upcoming DJ course and the importance of mastering the fundamentals. * How drumming influenced my knowledge of the structure of music. * Wearing a Yankees hat while not being a Yankee fan ;) * Likes and dislikes on social media. * What to do when you have the same name as another DJ. * Trying to be the best vs enjoying the process. * My first DJ course. * How cue points (and other DJ technology) can assist you during sets. Feel free to jump in the comment section and join the conversation when you see a question that you can answer. 