Practice Sets?

[DocFish]

I am guessing this has been asked/answered before, but I am having a hard time confirming such -

I am wondering about good "practice sets" - I can find a lot of good information on the importance of practice, how to practice, techniques, etc. But no practice set lists to work from!

I recognize that an very important part of DJing is song selection, but that is just one skill that actually needs to build as a set with the technical tools, so having a prebuilt setlist from a knoweldgable DJ to practice other skills would help understand how songs work together, and then thus build the song selection skill?

I guess I am looking for a bit of a kickstart tool - do any such lists exist? Or would experienced DJs here be willing to contribute such?

I would also see it as valuable if there were some sets that were all freely avaliable tunes (free demos/soundcloud/etc) as well as purchasable tune lists. (myself, I would probably take advantage of both)

[3heads]

Sorry, but this must be the most bizarre question I've seen around here....and there's many bizarre ones...

[brocklambert]

So you want to replicate someone else's set?

Pick some music YOU like and mix away.

[RockingClub]

You can look for a Beatport mix or a continuous mix on a CD you like. Then have a look at the song list and if you like, try to recreate the mix to understand how it was mixed.
I personally started with mixing my favorite tunes aiming at a transition as smooth as possible though.

[P4ULSON]

well to answer your queston find a dj you really like and check for his playlist or set list.... choose songs from that list with similar bpm and sounds like that would go good together and full versions of songs with a nice 32 bar intro. learn your phrasing and beatmatching. understand some songs just don't go well together and you can't mix them in instead you have to just cut on the 1. learn the 32 bar phrasing and start mixing outro's over intro's. Practice and Enjoy!!!

[DocFish]

Sorry, but this must be the most bizarre question I've seen around here....and there's many bizarre ones...

Really? You just turned this from the one of the friendliest appearing forums on the net to one of the most obnoxious. Good job.

But really - I do a lot of things other than "DJing", and in all, practice and learning from others is the key. For example, I fly areobatic model airplanes. There are lots of training videos, descriptions, etc of how to do specific manuvers - barrel roll, illemean, flat spin, etc.. and it is possible to master a single one.. but you also need to know how to set up your plane, what kind of plane works for a particular type of move, and more importantly how to string those moves together into an effective competition sequence. There are ALSO experienced pilots who share or explain sequences for lesser experienced to learn from.

So you want to replicate someone else's set?

At first, to learn, ABSOLUTELY! A great way to learn anything is to replicate someone elses efforts, then when you master that, you extend it with your own "flavor:.

Ean Golden even does it here on this site - this is a great example
http://www.djtechtools.com/2012/06/1...erism-routine/

Not only shows the technique, but gives you the tracks to try it out. Using the same tracks lets you "play along" to learn, then later, apply the same technique that you now understand to some other tracks

Pick some music YOU like and mix away.

Of course - but some practice will make THAT much easier! You dont learn to sing with originals, you dont learn guitar with originals.. etc..

[DocFish]

You can look for a Beatport mix or a continuous mix on a CD you like. Then have a look at the song list and if you like, try to recreate the mix to understand how it was mixed.
I personally started with mixing my favorite tunes aiming at a transition as smooth as possible though.

well to answer your queston find a dj you really like and check for his playlist or set list.... choose songs from that list with similar bpm and sounds like that would go good together and full versions of songs with a nice 32 bar intro. learn your phrasing and beatmatching. understand some songs just don't go well together and you can't mix them in instead you have to just cut on the 1. learn the 32 bar phrasing and start mixing outro's over intro's. Practice and Enjoy!!!

Both good suggestions, thanks.

[AllDay]

Really? You just turned this from the one of the friendliest appearing forums on the net to one of the most obnoxious. Good job.

But really - I do a lot of things other than "DJing", and in all, practice and learning from others is the key. For example, I fly areobatic model airplanes. There are lots of training videos, descriptions, etc of how to do specific manuvers - barrel roll, illemean, flat spin, etc.. and it is possible to master a single one.. but you also need to know how to set up your plane, what kind of plane works for a particular type of move, and more importantly how to string those moves together into an effective competition sequence. There are ALSO experienced pilots who share or explain sequences for lesser experienced to learn from.

At first, to learn, ABSOLUTELY! A great way to learn anything is to replicate someone elses efforts, then when you master that, you extend it with your own "flavor:.

Most people are rattled by your post because the number one thing people tell a new dj is to be working on song selection. If you were to produce then yes taking someones full set and seeing what they did makes sense. But mixing song a into song b is 80% selection and 20% mix

[AllDay]

Wowee broski. Double post

[rdale]

I put up full track listings on my soundcloud, feel free to give my last mix a listen get the tracks and have it, PM if you have a question with the time marker and I will try and give an answer.