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Do You Flowchart Your Set?

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  • December 12, 2014 at 8:01 am #2106261
    DJ Vintage
    Moderator

    You structuring seems solid. Personally I think flowcharting your set is overthinking/overprepping things. If you have the mini-set building blocks in place, you are ready for a good set. After all, the night is dictated by your reaction to the crowd. And the crowd can not be predicted down to the last bit. It helps to have the early part of your set worked out and maybe a grand finale if you have a rather good idea of the crowd, but everything else should grow organically as the night progresses in my opinion.

    December 12, 2014 at 11:24 am #2106351
    ScottoRobotto
    Participant

    Well by flowchart I don’t mean a rigid schedule to follow. Let’s say I start off in funk/disco and I’m ready to change over. I could know that one of my mini-sets has a final song that transitions well to Eurobeat/Hi-NRG while another mini-set transitions well to Electro. I could also have a few mini-sets with the same vocal artist but use remixes to shift genres to drastically change the tempo and style while maintaining continuity. Or alternatively I could use another funk/disco mini-set to stay in the genre a little longer. Now I suppose I could simply internalize these choices but I’m the type of person who likes explicit structure.

    December 12, 2014 at 3:37 pm #2106641
    Phil Morse
    Keymaster

    Nice post, ScottoRobotto! Gonna push this to the main site as a weekend”over to you” and see what others say 🙂

    December 19, 2014 at 9:24 am #2110321
    Lamid45G
    Participant

    Every genre of a song should have that one type song that can be “bridge” to another type of genre, especially these days we have a lot of transition stuff, make things a lot easier

    January 6, 2015 at 2:26 pm #2116981
    Mike Ward
    Participant

    I actually flow charted my last gig!
    Retrospectively…
    Kind of…

    Check it out here:
    http://djmikeward.com/flow.html

    🙂

    January 7, 2015 at 9:15 am #2117401
    DJ Vintage
    Moderator

    LOL @ Mike: Glad you enjoyed the party. And anybody rocking a 2K audience is ok in my book!

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