Underground DJ Course
Underground DJ Course
Underground House and Techno DJ Course | Los Angeles
Learn how to DJ underground Techno and House to a professional standard on our Underground DJ course. If you’re over 21 and make the grade after assessment, you will be invited to play at our night, which are held in world-class venues, including Academy LA in Hollywood. See footage in the video below. We are proud to say that every student so far has made the grade! All profits from our club night, which you help raise go to the LA Works charity.
If you’re serious about House and Techno, and want to learn in groups of no more than four from a DJ plugged in to LA’s underground music scene, this fully comprehensive Underground DJ course for you. Our generously equipped DJ lab has every piece of industry standard equipment you’d see in respectable venues, including Pioneer Nexus decks with Rekordbox, Native Instruments Traktor with S8 controllers, Serato, and there’s even Technics 1200 vinyl decks for you to get to grips with. Learning how to DJ should be FUN – not frustrating!
This course is an EDM-free zone, and we have a separate EDM DJ course for fans of more commercial electronic music. Before we were fortunate enough to have the demand to run genre-specific DJ courses, our generic courses often resulted in instructors who could never be suitable for all the learners’ music tastes; you had to be lucky to get the right instructor. But now those issues are in the past, and we are thrilled to now be able to offer a fully comprehensive Underground DJ course where everyone is on the same page!
Please note that our club night is not always scheduled straight after your course, so if you’re coming to LA from out of town, please bear this in mind. If you can’t make our club night but wish to be in the lineup on a future date, we’ll make it happen.
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Beats and Pieces
- Equipment, set up, & ready to go
- Mixer essentials
- Beats & bars
- Intro to beat matching
Arrangement of Underground Electronic Music
- Pitch and identifying dissonance (known as clashing)
- All about tune structure and why you need to know about it
- Where to mix in and out
Building a Set
- Tips on track choice
- Tempo
- Set order
- Mix points
FX
- Introduction to common FX
- EQ
- All about filtering
- FX in the mix dos and don’ts
Our Extensive Pro Hardware & Software
- Pioneer Nexus
- Rekordbox
- Traktor S4 and S8
- Rane Serato Scratch
- Technics SL-1210 vinyl turntables
- Mixed In Key
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Your Set
- Fine tuning your set
- Body language behind the decks
- Mixing acapellas
Advanced Mixing & Digital Tricks
- Sampling and triggering
- All about delay and reverb in the mix
- Looping and making your own mash-ups on the fly
- Impact mixing with levels and FX
Advanced Set Building & Ad-libbing
- Out-of-the-box song choice
- Tempo change tips
- Music programming, set times
- Reading a crowd and having a ‘plan b’
Preparing for Your Show
- Recording your set for submission
- Promoting our charity event
After Your Show
- Keep the momentum going
- Developing your sound and individuality
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