Be a Real DJ and Don't TRY to Be Too Critical of Yourself

0:00 This track is entitled Major Fox

Alright guys, this track is entitled Major Fox. It's by Diamond Skin Snakes. There will be a link in the description or links to the artist and of course the track as well. What's this video about? Hopefully it's going to inspire you to become a better DJ. Now with today's technology, pretty much anybody can do a seamless mix. You get yourself a controller, you press sync and away you go with your key matched tracks. But there are some people out there who are still very critical. about their mixes, they're getting to the stage where it has to be seamless and perfect. Now I've mentioned this before in a video, let's imagine that you are really critical about your mixes, and if it's off very slightly, well there's a tiny bit of vocal in there, then you throw it away and you have to do it again and again and again. You start getting anxiety attacks and you get frustrated, before you know it you have a mental block and you can do jack shit. What do you do then?

0:59 Old school style

Walk away, go and play tennis, go and stick your head down the toilet or do something stupid. Forget about it. Take up needlework for half an hour and then come back to your decks and have another go. Alternatively, why don't you look at the old school style? 30 years ago a DJ would use vinyl. That was it. You didn't have the option of anything else. Maybe if you were really lucky you had a sneak preview at a CD. You had to use vinyl. So there were mistakes. I've heard mixtapes from big artists who used vinyl and you can hear the mistakes, but you know what? It was real. It was organic. So this video is about explaining to you that a mix that is seamless and perfect in my mind and a lot of major say artists out there and managers it's not a good mix.

2:19 In a nutshell, keep your mixes real

Because if you think about it, if you send a seamless mix to a manager, then they're probably going to think, you know what, this mix was done on some software where it's all synced, it's all beatmatched, and you know what, is the DJ a real DJ? Can they really form a good mix in front of a crowd? But if you look at it on the other hand... If you've got a couple of mistakes in there, it's a little bit rough around the edges, then the manager is more likely to think, you know what, this is real. This is organic. This is what it used to be like. So, in a nutshell, keep your mixes real. If there's a mistake, it doesn't matter. Alright, you don't want loads of mistakes. You don't want it to sound terrible off-key, out of phrase and vocals over vocals. But if it's slightly off-beat halfway through, or maybe, you know, the drop is a millisecond out,

It doesn't matter. It shows that your mix is real. So, if you do mixes like that, then don't worry about it. Don't be too critical. Because if you're too critical, then you'll never enjoy what you're doing. If you don't enjoy what you're doing, then you're never going to get a good mix out there. Savvy? Alright, I hope that's a help. Check out Diamond Skin... I'm not going to do this video again. Check out Diamond Skin Snakes. Practice and enjoy. Thank you. Boom. Gave it a better person. So, right, what's going on? No, I can't really start like that. Now, there are a lot of people out there who are too... Oh, fuck.

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