DJ course outline

Here's the basic outline of the course. Remember that as you had a whole day each week, you completed 2 or sometimes 3 sessions worth of work each week.
You should have the detailed notes from Nigel for more info. These are also on the shared area.
You need to BLOG for each week ....

DJ course outline

Week 1

Introduction to the course

Equipment & Set-up

Week 2

Analyze musical styles and BPM

Understand the basic concept of beats and bars

Cueing up & Syncing records

Week 3

Identify the tempo of a record

identify and adjust the pitch

Week 4

Beat match two records together

Week 5

Extended beat matching and how to adjust minor tempo mismatches.

Week 6

Have a basic concept of EQ and how to utilise this in a DJ set.

Week 7

Introduction to CD mixing

How to identifying a tempo without a beat

Week 8

Introduction to accapella mixing

Mixing accapella into beats and vice versa.

Week 9

Introduction to scratching

Record selection

Building a DJ set

Week 10

How to record a “live” set into a computer

OCN LR test

One-to-one tuition