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Stage 8 The DJ Business Course 3 of 6

Behaving Like a Professional

Intermediate 10 lessons · 1 h 3 min

What separates someone who gets asked back from someone who does not, and almost none of it is mixing. Taking the booking properly, what to say on a microphone, handling the drunk who wants the aux cable, and the nerves nobody admits to.

By the end of this course you will be able to

  • Take a booking over the phone and get the details you need
  • Use a microphone without making the room wince
  • Deal with difficult guests and requests calmly
  • Manage nerves before and during a gig

Lessons

  1. Taking a booking over the phone

    5:08

  2. What separates a professional from an amateur

    5:36

  3. A is for attitude

    3:02

  4. What to say on the microphone

    7:13

  5. Dealing with drunks and idiots

    8:19

  6. Combating nervousness

    6:28

  7. Coping with nerves before a gig

    11:07

  8. A DJ or a playlist - does the client know?

    Optional 3:08

  9. What mobile DJs think of their own trade

    Optional 5:40

  10. A famous set that went wrong, and why

    Optional 6:50

The stages are the way through

Below this line is the back catalogue, newest first. Useful for browsing, but it is not a course - the videos are in the order they were filmed, not the order to learn them in. Work the stages instead: each one assumes the one before it.

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