for my first gig I had my set planned out, only in as far as I knew what tunes I would play.
Other than that, have a few beers, not too many, and enjoy yourself.
if you casn get a crowd of people along to support you, even better.
for my first gig I had my set planned out, only in as far as I knew what tunes I would play.
Other than that, have a few beers, not too many, and enjoy yourself.
if you casn get a crowd of people along to support you, even better.
Personally I would go for a couple of "safe" options to get you into it. I was so nervous for the first couple of mixes I couldn't even remember what i'd played. Once you get that down and out of the way you'll feel much more confident and you can then play what YOU think will go well.
Other than that relax and dont get too drunk!!(I did this once and took the wrong deck off!!!)
Would it be advisable to have a few tokes of mj beforehand to calm me or will I get even more nervous and start panicking? haha
I'd definitely give Kirsten Dunst a couple of tokes before a gig to calm me down....
Ableton 9.7.5, Native Instruments Komplete Ultimate 11, MOTU 828 Mk2, Nektar Impact LX61+, Ableton Push, Native Instruments Kore 2, and a random selection of soft synths and sample libraries.
Windows 10 Pro 64 bit with Core i7 4960X Extreme Edition 12 core CPU, 64GB RAM, SanDisk Ultra Extreme SSDs and a GeForce GTX 970 G1 Gaming GPU.
What i do is freestyle the smaller gigs but whenever a big one comes up, it's better to be perfect and not be able to do requests.
For freestyling, after you do it enough you get a feel for when to mix in other songs. I don't even have count in my head, I just know when the songs change up by instinct .Usually there's a change every four 32 bars. So when you're just learning to freestyle at first, look at the waveform and visually figure out when to put the next track in.
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