Underground DJ Course
Underground DJ Course
Underground House and Techno DJ Course | Miami
Learn how to DJ underground Techno and House to a professional standard on our Underground DJ course. If you make the grade after assessment, you will be invited to play at our night, which sees us in top venues in Miami.
If you’re serious about House and Techno, and want to learn in groups of no more than four from a DJ plugged in to Miami’s underground music scene, this fully comprehensive Underground DJ course for you. Our generously equipped DJ lab has every piece of industry standard equipment you’d see in respectable venues. Learning how to DJ should be FUN – not frustrating!
This course is an EDM-free zone, and we have a separate EDM DJ course for fans of more commercial electronic music.
Please note that our club night is not always scheduled straight after your course, so if you’re coming to Miami from out of town, please bear this in mind. If you can’t make our club night but wish to be in the lineup on a future date, we’ll make it happen.
101
Let’s Go
- Equipment, set up, & ready to go
- Mixer essentials
- Beats & bars
- Intro to beat matching
Arrangement of Underground Electronic Music
- Pitch and identifying dissonance (known as clashing)
- All about tune structure and why you need to know about it
- Where to mix in and out
Building a Set
- Tips on track choice
- Tempo
- Set order
- Mix points
FX
- Introduction to common FX
- EQ
- All about filtering
- FX in the mix dos and don’ts
Our Extensive Pro Hardware & Software
- Pioneer Nexus
- Rekordbox
- Mixed In Key
201
Your Set
- Fine tuning your set
- Body language behind the decks
- Mixing acapellas
Advanced Mixing & Digital Tricks
- Sampling and triggering
- All about delay and reverb in the mix
- Looping and making your own mash-ups on the fly
- Impact mixing with levels and FX
Advanced Set Building & Ad-libbing
- Out-of-the-box song choice
- Tempo change tips
- Music programming, set times
- Reading a crowd and having a ‘plan b’
Preparing For Your Show
- Preparing your set
- Recording your set
- Marketing and promoting your gig
After Your Show
- Marketing tips
- How to get more gigs
- EPK tips
- Developing your sound
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