Looking for DJ's from over the World who can break it down

0:00 Just been on Mixing On Beat Forum and I've answered Andre's question

Alright folks, just been on Mixing On Beat Forum and I've answered Andre's question. Hope you get that my man. And sometimes like, you know, well the question he asked was why did I start doing this? What gave me the inspiration to start doing these lessons? And very simply it was because I looked on YouTube and there were a few lessons on DJing but they, this is my own opinion, they weren't very good. Not being big-headed but I felt that I could do better by actually breaking it down, by going into finer detail because believe me there are some people out there if you showed them a mixer they wouldn't even know how to turn it on. Now here's where anyone can help okay any DJ out there who has a certain amount of knowledge about the gear you have this is what I want you to do this is a message to every single DJ mixing on beat DJs I don't care who you are

This is the deal, okay? You can help everyone out there, okay? Look at the gear you've got, alright? I want you to look in front of you and the system you're using. Forget the fact that it's, say, turntables. Forget the fact it's a PC or whatever. It doesn't matter. It's totally irrelevant. If it makes music, a synthesizer, a keyboard, fine. It doesn't matter. I want you to break it down. I want you to do a video and I want you to pretend. That you are explaining the piece of equipment you have to someone who doesn't even know what it is, okay? A Martian, okay? Imagine a Martian's just come down and you say, alright, you'll know this mixing on beat. You imagine saying to a Martian, right, see that box over there? Alright, I'll point. Okay, it's TV.

2:13 Your system, okay

Alright, you say to the Martian, just switch it on, go to channel 10 and watch the news. Okay, he'll look at you as if to say, well what are you on about? But then if you actually said, see this box here, okay, see the button down on the bottom, I want you to press that button and you get his finger and you put his finger on the button and you'll say right, okay, now you watch that, it'll light up, we have power. Okay, now what I want you to do, I want you to press another button, press it ten times till you get to channel 10. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Okay, now there you go Martian, you've got the news, alright? That's breaking it down. Now this is where you guys come in. Everyone, I don't care who you are, alright? I want you to look at your system, okay? Now let's say for example, you've got a mixer like this, okay? It's one of my old school mixers. Show it to the world and say, okay guys, this is my mixer.

This button does this. This button does this. If I press this, it does this. If I touch this, it does this. Okay, this is how silly it is. See this guy here? It's a microphone, okay? This is a Canon lead. Now some people might not even know what that is. Break it down and say, okay, this is a Canon lead. You plug it in here. It's so simple, but some people don't know, okay? It doesn't stop there. It goes on and on. Look at this guy here. This is a light, okay? This is a twist of four, alright? Break it down, okay? People say, oh wow, a light, crikey. There are some DJs out there. When this stops working, do you know what? They'll throw it away. Silly, because did they actually understand? Did they realise that maybe the bulb's broken? The bulb has stopped working. It needs a new bulb. Break it down, okay? If you've got one of these, okay, just try it. You know, just say, okay, this is what you have to do first. You have to open it up.

You unscrew the two screws. Very important. Don't just say, open it up, because they're thinking, well, OK, so do I need a screwdriver? Do I need a hammer, a chisel? You don't. Explain. See the two screws at the front. You open it up. Don't drop the front bit. Take that off and then the bulb. Don't forget, very important, make sure it's not powered in. Make sure there's no power. And then you pull this out, OK? Again, this guy here is called dichroic bulb. Tell them. Well, I'm doing it now. You don't touch the bulb because the guy in the middle there, if you touch that, you get oil on it, then it will blow. It won't work, OK? And then check that first. How do you check it? How do you check it? Say, if you've got two of them, just swap the bulbs around. If the bulb still doesn't work on the other one that's working, you know the bulb's gone. If the bulb works on the other one, then you know there's possibly something wrong in here, OK?

4:42 YouTube, mixing on beat and they

DJs from around the world can go on to YouTube, mixing on beat and they can say, I want to be a DJ. OK, what gear do I need to buy? Let's have a look. So they'll go to a section, Vestax Mixers, and they'll say, OK, right, so I need a Vestax A21. I'm not sure about the model numbers. So they can click on A21 and they can think, well, that's fine, but how do I know how it works? How can I actually work out how this guy works? They can click on a video and there'll be some guy in Taiwan who'll say, OK, here's the Veztax mixer. And this button does this, this does this, this does this. You plug it in here, you put your PC here, there, etc. That's what it's called. It's called Breaking It Down because believe me, the world is our oyster. We can do anything. This is Punk TV. Forget normal TV. Watch it if you want to on a Saturday night with your girlfriend or your wife. Sit there and vegetate. This is real life. This is what we're on about. We're talking to real people out there who need real help. Thank you for watching. Bye bye. Okay, I almost forgot as well. I think what we should do, which is fair actually...

We're going to, if you do a video like that, then send me a link, okay? Let me know if you've actually done a particular video on your sort of bits of kit, etc. Don't forget, PC, turntables, CD players, DAT players, anything, anything, keyboards, whatever. Then what I'm going to try and do over the next couple of months and years, if we have a lot, is look through them and then the best ones or some, it doesn't matter if they're brilliant, it doesn't matter the quality or whatever, but if I feel that you're breaking it down, And if I feel perhaps that maybe a three-year-old can look and think, yeah, I can understand that, then what we'll do, we'll get a link and we'll stick it on DJTutor.com, OK?

Thank you for watching.

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