Practice Sets?

[DocFish]

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

Hmm... ok, i guess that makes a little more sense - would it have rattled fewer cages if I had said "as a controllerist.." and "practicing controllerisim.."? I am really working more towards the producer side, in fact I found this site looking at the midi fighter as a producer/performance instrument and had never really considered DJing as related to what I was doing until I came here and saw some of Ean Golden's and Mad Zach's controllerist tutorials. This site kinda smears together production and djing with its heavy focus on controllerism. I kinda see it as a spectrum in the controllerism space - production on one side (purely original music with perhaps samples from others), djing on the other (artistically mixing others music) and a lot of people on THIS site, somewhere inbetween (altering others tunes enough to make them original-like)

Still, even straight up djs seem to preach practice practice practice, and it is NOT just song selection. Not sure you could teach or practice taste - I definitely wasnt looking for songlists to teach me what is good music..

[DocFish]

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.

Thanks - I'll definitely give it a listen at least! And thanks for putting the friendly back in the site

[anteater32]

If you are just looking for inspiration then browse mixcloud; its part of the upload deal that you list out the artist and tracks that are in the mix when you upload it.

Apart from that you just have to figure out what sounds good to you before letting other people here your interpretations....

[elliot1106]

Sorry but HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

...if you're a producer then do your own tunes, if you wouldnt know where to start then you can't be much of a producer

[DocFish]

Sorry but HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

...if you're a producer then do your own tunes, if you wouldnt know where to start then you can't be much of a producer

Because on day one you knew everything about producing and gold dripped from your fingers.. you woke up one day, thought to yourself "hey peter, I think we should be a producer" and sat down and cranked out a series of platinum releases.. Of course, that assumes you know anything at all now.. And since I had never heard of you before you found yourself compelled to boost your own pitiful little ego by attempting to put down a stranger, we can assume THAT didn't happen..

way to keep the theme of negativity going on the thread man..

[elliot1106]

Because on day one you knew everything about producing and gold dripped from your fingers.. you woke up one day, thought to yourself "hey peter, I think we should be a producer" and sat down and cranked out a series of platinum releases.. Of course, that assumes you know anything at all now.. And since I had never heard of you before you found yourself compelled to boost your own pitiful little ego by attempting to put down a stranger, we can assume THAT didn't happen..

way to keep the theme of negativity going on the thread man..

Creativity is spurred from doing your own thing not strict regulations.

[P4ULSON]

Creativity is spurred from doing your own thing not strict regulations.

i don't do this but saw it and thought it was funny haha

"good artists copy but great artists steal"
-Pablo Picaso

[elliot1106]

i don't do this but saw it and thought it was funny haha

"good artists copy but great artists steal"
-Pablo Picaso

Inspiration to any degree is still better than asking for direct practise guidelines like revision for your maths paper haha

[DocFish]

Inspiration to any degree is still better than asking for direct practise guidelines like revision for your maths paper haha

Right.. and that is why every other persuit.. creative or otherwise.. has practice patterns and exercises.. many very formalized Such as drummers rudiments, karate katas, etc.

I am happy for you that your unbounded talent just flow naturally and everything you produce is an instant superhit. For the rest of us there is a bit of work necessary.

[elliot1106]

right.. And that is why every other persuit.. Creative or otherwise.. Has practice patterns and exercises.. Many very formalized such as drummers rudiments, karate katas, etc.

I am happy for you that your unbounded talent just flow naturally and everything you produce is an instant superhit. For the rest of us there is a bit of work necessary.

yolo xox