Practice:By doing extended mixes or single practice techniques?

[djalexlaine]

what are you mixing with? cdjs? traktor? vinyl?

[Kaon]

my personal start is to practice single techniques while practicing extended mixes. which at the moment involves making a 1 and a 1/2 hourish mix and going crazy with the effects, the more you use everything the beter you will understand it, and with understanding will come new knowledge

[wrong chris]

both practicing long sets (without stopping if you mess up) and focusing on certain techniques are going to help your game.

it sounds like your just getting started so focus on the things that you find most difficult and soon they will feel like second nature with enough practice. Then you'll find yourself not having to count out measures etc. as you'll just know - it'll be ingrained into your psyche !

[miyuru]

I'm at the point where I know enough about music that I can mix most any song with any song, especially with the help of Traktor. Naturally I've been getting more and more into controllerism techniques, after assigning my FX levels to my faders to start. Same with cue point juggles, you just have to set up the appropriate cues beforehand. With those sorts of things, I practice them for fun over and over (because it never gets old ) and to the same token, I would never perform them live unless I was comfortable doing so.

If you're still not super confident in your basic mixing ability, don't get ahead of yourself and become overwhelmed with looping, cue points, beatjumping, FX, and so forth. Just mix and record, and listen to yourself and see how you could get better with where you drop songs and your EQ'ing, what works and what doesn't. It's hard work but building a solid foundation is essential.