Arthur Kokanov
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Arthur Kokanov
ParticipantIt’s monday again time for another update.
The only goal I was satisfied with was my mixing goal from last week. I did an hour a day and recored every set except for one where I forgot to press save… :/. from listening back I can tell a noticiable improvement in the blending and less mistakes. I didint touch the dance music manual or ableton due to… I dont really have an excuse so I guess I just loafted.
I am going to focus on being effcient again this week and continue with the goals from last week. I also wanted to change my logo, il have a friend set it up sometime this week.
This weeks Goals:
– Mix an hour a day, with focus on blending music.
– Refine my main music crate even more. I am finding that I use certain songs alot more and that I dont touch the others.
– Start reading the dance music manual and read the manual for Ableton live.
– Set up a promo mix CD on Sunday.Guys… its summer! time to go out and rock it!
Participantlol haha, no worries. il start posting mixes again soon to show my progress.
Participant“PS. I don’t actually own a Porsche. It just made a better example than my Kia, which is only marginally better than a tricycle… “
I go clubbing alot and I’ve never wondered about a DJ’s equipment until I got my own decks. Now that I own a NS6 the first thing I look for at a club is what the DJ uses. To the crowd it does not matter what you use, as long as your pumping out music that is kick ass then its all good. Looking professional comes from the person not the equipment. And the topic on the cake is the DJ interacting with the crowd in my oppinion.
ParticipantSo I finished listening through all the music that I’ve been meaning to listen to and picked out a hefty selection. I’ve been trying to set up a mix CD too but havent been playing around as much as I wanted to with this, i’ve had a really busy weekend. Biz cards flopped but thats ok. This weekend…
Goals for this week: Dedication and orginization!
1. Practice one hour a day for 7 days. No excuses. Focus on beat and song matching. The idea is to make the music sound as if it is part of one track so that you cant tell where one song starts and where one ends.
2. Start reading the DJ Manual. 1 chapter a day.
3. Start Figuring out Ableton Live.
To complete all these goals I must be efficiant with my time and have lazer focus.
Work out goals:
1. Go Tue: Chest
Wed: Back
Thur: CardioParticipantyea right… If i do that il end up doing the jesus pose and head banging in the middle of the office ;D
ParticipantThis makes me want to go out and MIX! Ugh I’m so pumped because of this sucks that I am at work!
ParticipantI had a choice between CDJ’s and a controller, I went with the NS6. I really like simple yet complex feel. I have nothing against CDj’s but Controllers have less steep a learning curve.
ParticipantOk so I didint get to finish the promo cd since im still going through all the music that I have, almost done though. The biz Cards thing kinda fell through too. The guy who has everything set up had something unexpected come up and I wasent able to meet up wtih him. I’ll keep in contact with him and make sure to get that done this week Sat. Otherwise I got to play alot of music and just listen to the stuff I like. My gf has been helping me out with discovering some bands and hits that I havent heard of yet.
Goals for this week: Lets do this right!
1. Finish listening through all the songs by Wednesday night.
2. Print Biz cards
3. Work on Promo CD
4. Create a new Mash up by saturday.
Workout goals
1. Visit gym 3 times this week mon, wed, thursday.
Participantthanks for the tip, il check out live. not sure what you mean by magnet schools though, my philosophy is to follow what you want to do, the only draw back is that you must know yourself really well before you can do that. I just hope this journal helps people with make the choice on how seriously they want to take DJing and the process it takes to become good.
Participantdurtyjerzy, that some good advice il keep that in my hear from now on.
ParticipantI’m back, fell off the board there for a bit due to overwork. Just a tip for everyone doing alot with their life… don’t do too much or you’ll burn out.
So im getting right back into it. Also I think I want to merge this thread with another aspect of my life, Travel, well the preparation for my long ass trip. Goals for this week…
Djing:
1. Set up two hours worth of music that i most enjoy.2. Create a demo mix for promotion.
3. Print biz cards.
Travel:
1. Start on light work out on chest and back and some running.ParticipantThanks Phil!
A bit late on this update. I didint really have the energy to do what I wanted in the last 4 days of the week since I was in bed with high fever for 3 days. Also a late start to this week.I didint get much accomplished which is a big bummer but i will make up for it starting tomorrow (still recovering). Only one goal for this week and thats to do a mash up I wanted to release last week.
ParticipantJust a quick update.
I worked on a mash for like 4 hours yesterday lol… and wanted some opinion on it.
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Actually I listened to it a few times over after it was finished and this morning and yes there are some mistakes and some general cleaning up to do. but otherwise for a first mash i think it sounds great. Btw this is a live mash up too no ableton or other music editing.
February 7, 2012 at 8:29 pm in reply to: How Seriously Do You Have To Take Your Image To Succeed? #14425ParticipantFrom what I’ve seen in my research about dj-ing the hardest part is breaking in, and one of the best ways of doing that and setting up a foot hold is a crazy well done marketing campaign. Afterwards its the music that will land you the gigs. Actually I think it becomes a balance of both image, who you get to know, and of course the most importaint part… your style of music.
ParticipantI set myself goals constantly… but my best sounding stuff comes from just playing around and having a ton of fun. The trouble with that is that you can only learn so much. Like last night once I have set up all my cue points and stuff I found myself lost in how to mix in something other then House. That takes practice though. Mixing EMD together is kinda simple since all the beats are very similar. Once you get into the harder stuff with more vocals or genres you will need to focus and over come that frustration that is called the learning process.
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