Wanted: Music list for "How to Digital DJ Fast"

Best bet is to send a mail to info@digitaldjtips.com and one of the team members will certainly help you figure things out.

AH!

Well, this is not a question for the Forum News, FAQS & Feedback forum, so let me first move it to DJ Booth as that seems more appropriate.

Oops … moderator status is gone LOL … will ask Terry to move it 😀

Thanks for writing Kelly!

The reason we don’t list the music in our Foundation course How To Digital DJ Fast is that the most fundamental thing about DJing – way before mixing or key matching or beat sync or anything else – is what music you choose to play. That’s why the course early on gives you the tools and coaching to work out what music to collect for YOU. Those tracks will be different to the tracks chosen by absolutely anyone else.

We would never give lists of tunes and say “this is what you need to DJ with”, because 1. They’d be out of date immediately. 2. It differs from person to person, crowd to crowd, city to city, mood to mood, night to night. 3. We’d be shortchanging you by not coaching you to do that important work yourself.

It’d be like a photography course saying: “Here’s how to take a landscape… and here’s the GPS coordinates of the place where we took this example. The only way for you to learn is to go exactly there and do what we did.” Even if you could, would you ever find the weather, light and so on the same as when the example was taken? Of course not. And you’d be missing the point of the photography training in even trying to.

So to be absolutely clear: The music used in our beginners course is to demonstrate the skills – you are 100% meant to go away and find your own music, which is why we always teach music discovery before mixing. That way, not only do you have the skills, but you’re building your set towards that first gig a few short weeks away.

If you find yourself at the Mixing section of our beginner course without any music of your own, it’s because you haven’t followed the preceding Music section of the course properly and done the work needed to move on. It’s very important that you do that.

Far from being a “needless waste of time”, building a collection of music you love that you want to DJ with is actually 80% of what DJing is about. Please trust us – this is the best way to do it, and absolutely the fastest way to be doing the seemingly impossible, DJing within four short weeks.

(By the way, The reason there are a list of tunes in the Mixing Power Skills course is that it teaches advanced techniques and routines that DJs may want to copy, in order to add them to their own skills. It is not a “how to DJ” course, more like a “cookbook” of techniques for DJs who already know that stuff, and who may want to quickly grab the same tracks to help.)

There’s lots of free music on Soundcloud as well.