Information Overload!

A good starting point is the free lessons or better yet the paid courses here at DDJT.

It does a good job of giving you a solid base and many have used it with great success.

Traktor has a ridiculous number of options and features, most of which you won’t need for now – so just ignore them or turn them off. For instance, if you’re only using 2 decks then pick the display option that hides the other 2.

Read through the Traktor manual and have a go at all of the tutorials in there. This will give you a good grounding in technique.

Learn how to use the recording feature, and get into the habit of recording your practice sessions. Listening to your sessions is the single best way to accelerate your learning. You can also record your mixes to share with your mates or upload to a site such as Mixcloud.

DDJT’s free lessons are here – http://www.digitaldjtips.com/free-dj-training-courses/
Although most are aimed at DJs looking to go pro, you might find something of interest.

I’ll add another vote in favour of “How To Digital DJ – Fast”, which you can find with other courses at http://www.digitaldjtips.com/how-to-dj-training-courses/

Good luck, and remember to have fun amongst all the learning.
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Traktor is very very scary to someone who is new to the world of djing but the key to it is having a passion for music, a willingness to learn and last but not least perseverance…everyone struggles in the begining but if you keep at it slowly but surely everything will fall into place

Well, as has been said here before, picking your software because it came with your controller is not the best decision.

YOU should be who drives the decision of what you need. And then you find a way to make it happen.

Traktor is relatively specific DJ software and if you are not that kind of DJ, you are stuck not only with software that isn’t the best for you, but with hardware that is not really optimally suited for the software you switch to.

Building and maintaining a good collection in your DJ software with all the prep work that goes into it takes lots of time and dedication. Switching software becomes harder the longer you wait, because it feels like a total waste (and rightfully so) to have to do all that prep work all over again.

So, better to re-evaluate your options. Easier to change directions now, while you are still just passed the starting line, than a year down the road.

Wow looked at the response for an Introduction post, i think this is a record-breaking !