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Stage 8 The DJ Business Course 1 of 6

Getting Your First Bookings

Beginner 10 lessons · 1 h 11 min

How the work actually arrives, which is rarely by sending out a demo. Approaching clubs, getting the first mobile gigs, and - his most watched business lesson by a distance - opening a set in a way that makes the manager look up.

By the end of this course you will be able to

  • Approach a club or an agency without wasting their time
  • Open a set so that the person who books you notices
  • Find the first mobile gigs when you have no track record
  • Put on your own night if nobody will book you

Lessons

  1. How to get a set in a nightclub

    7:28

  2. Getting work in a nightclub

    2:05

  3. Opening a set so the manager notices

    10:58

  4. First mobile gigs for a young DJ

    8:44

  5. Getting your first professional booking

    12:02

  6. Putting on your own night

    5:21

  7. Starting out over forty-five

    Optional 6:09

  8. When you are too old to DJ

    Optional 9:44

  9. On becoming a "superstar DJ"

    Optional 5:41

  10. How to become world famous

    Optional 2:37

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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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