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 LA’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, including Pioneer Nexus decks with Rekordbox, Native Instruments Traktor with S8 controllers, Serato, and there’s even Technics 1200 vinyl decks for you to get to grips with. 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. Before we were fortunate enough to have the demand to run genre-specific DJ courses, our generic courses often resulted in instructors who could never be suitable for all the learners’ music tastes; you had to be lucky to get the right instructor. But now those issues are in the past, and we are thrilled to now be able to offer a fully comprehensive Underground DJ course where everyone is on the same page!

Please note that our club night is not always scheduled straight after your course, so if you’re coming to LA 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

Introduction to common FX
EQ
All about filtering
FX in the mix dos and don’ts

Our Extensive Pro Hardware & Software

Pioneer CDJ Nexus
Rekordbox
Traktor S4 and S8
Rane Serato Scratch
Technics SL-1210 vinyl turntables
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 at The Exchange

Marketing tips
How to get more gigs
EPK tips
Developing your sound

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