yea learning how to play the stuff off is the key imo... tapping the jog wheel in vinyl mode on my cdj a few times why i was beat matching
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yea learning how to play the stuff off is the key imo... tapping the jog wheel in vinyl mode on my cdj a few times why i was beat matching
no one is safe when it comes to mistakes. we are all humans.
iŽd say that there is a big difference between making a mistake or being a bad "dj".
The first time I played live I slipped and hit a hotcue button starting the song over... Did a little cue juggling and smoothed that one out. I must admit I have learned a few tricks by making mistakes and rolling with them.
Mistakes will happen. That is part of the "art" of live DJing. Stopping the wrong deck. Playing the wrong song. Train wrecks. Open mic comments. I have seen (and heard....and done) all of the above.
If your set is "perfect" then I will "assume" that you just played a pre-recorded mix....even if you didn't....even if you really were that good. When there is "live" entertainment...I want to see the effort...I want to notice the person in the loop...I want to find the mistakes, so that I know it's really live.
One fine balance is to ensure that you can always achieve "good" while occasionally shooting at "great." This is not the same thing as "playing it safe." It is much more like this: beginners practice until they can get it right, experts practice until they can not get it wrong.
All that leads to this: The ONLY unforgivable mistake is to let your last mistake cause your next mistake. Or...NEVER allow one error to shake your concentration so that it causes another error.
I have seen a HORRID train wreck live...and the DJ cut the sound (e.g. dead air)....came out and took a giant bow....and then went back and nailed the next part of the set. THAT is one "right" way to handle a mistake. (I found out later that the turntable died...and needed to be replaced....the dead air and bow bought the sound guy about 90 seconds to swap it out...it's all about the performance.)
If I'm honest with you every one of those mistakes are unacceptable in my opinion. The last one even more so than the rest.Quote:
Originally Posted by DJ ATX
saying that i have lifted the needle off the wrong deck.... once.... and i made sure if NEVER happened again. Saying that though I've seen Paul Van Dyk and Sasha both do this!!
Once i aired the wrong track and then right after that i cued the correct one, so to recover i put up the volume on the last 8 bars of beats of the track that was playing all before and mixed the new one with that. Nevertheless, later in the night i was on a break discussing with the stuff and they told me they didn't even notice it. Another time i had an old cd playing on a cdj-100 and it started skipping... badly so i dropped the next ready track as soon as i realized it.
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Originally Posted by Ed Paris
So what makes a bad " dj " in you opinion?
dayum! i know someone would ask this question ;) well i guess this is really in the the eye of the beholder but iŽd say a bad dj is a dj not being able to entertain his crowd.Quote:
Originally Posted by djemai
A bad Dj and there's a lot here where i live, is a Dj that can't beat match, if you can't beat match, don't use CDJ's stick to controllers. a bad Dj starts testing out a song, cueing it on the main speakers ( not headphones ) i've heard it before. A bad DJ says he is good, but in reality is total shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ed Paris
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Originally Posted by deevey
Twice in one night :o
If you've never made a mistake or two, you haven't been playing out long enough.