Updated - 15-02-07
Sort yourself with Slappas!
Ok - a week ago, I bought myself some Slappa CD cases for all my CD's. My CD DJing is now SO much easier (and safer) as I can include an inlay of what's on the disc in with the CD - rather having to print directly to the CD (and not know what's on the disc when it's playing) or try to jam an inlay into the sleeve with the CD (and it gets all rumpled). So happy am I with these that they're now the main 'sponsor' of this site. Check em out using the banners at the top of each page - and if you're a CD DJ - buy some - they really will help.
Happy Valentines Day!
14.02.2007
I love you all... I mean it. I've shown you my love by fixing a lot of link errors on here, and slightly re-formatting things. You'll now see an ad down the right hand side on most pages. Why? Because this site costs a lot to run, and I'm about to jack in my day job to spend more time helping people become better DJs. I'm going to need as much money as I can get!
Total re-design
To mark the worldwide release of the DJing for Dummies, I hope visitors who have been here before will notice that the site has been completely redesigned. I'd love to hear what you think of it (email me here)
Gone are the old, slow-loading, dodgy DHTML drop-downs, replaced with (what I hope is) some simpler ones. There's still a lot of text to go in, but I hope you'll appreciate the tider set up.
Lectures
29.01.2007
When trying to make more clips for the Videos page, I decided to make longer, deeper 'Lecture' videos instead. There's more to come (like videos on how to use Pioneer's CDJ1000 and DJM 600 DJ equipment), but so far people are positive about the first two.
Go see the lectures
The book is out in the US
25.01.2007
Looking at Amazon, it seems that the book has had an early release in the US. Check out the various links dotted (spread!) throughout this site for options on how to buy it (or use the links under 'the book')
Video Clips
10.12.2006
To back up a lot of the information in the book, I've uploaded some short video clips, covering beat structures, and the basic functions of mixers and turntables.
Go see the Video Clips
Buy the Book
MySpace etc
We all know it's dumb, but face it, we all have a MySpace page. Feel free to add me as a friend if you're involved with any of the following (clicking on the link takes you to my page):
MySpace
MyDJSpace
MyClubbingSpace
Chatroom
As an extension to the forum, the UserPlane chatroom allows us all to 'chat' - but more importantly, play music over the internet to each other.
Check out the forum for instructions on how to make this work, and to log-in to see if anyone's online.
Slappa CD cases rock! I use them for my CDs, and now finding the perfect next tune in my CD collection is 100 times easier. Check them out!
Video Lectures
Lectures to support the info on this site, and the book
Me...talking to you... with examples... wooooo.
Ok, so I had a weekend to kill, and decided I'd add to the video clips I'd alreay put into the Videos page on this site. However, I got a bit into the subject, and the two clips I did manage to do (it was meant to be three) have ended up as 15 minute lectures, with me in front of the decks going through examples.
So, there was supposed to be 3 videos.
- Driving Rhythms - which expands on, and clears up that section from Chapter 17 of the book
- l'Boom B'loom - which again, clears up and expands on my description for how to tell what tune is running too fast when you're beatmatching (Chapter 12 in the book)
- How to use the CDJ1000 MkIII's
The last one, I'll do in the next session (probably next week) - and I'll also re-do the first two, as they're a bit waffly and sloppy (plus, the lighting sucks, and I didn't have time to take any pickup shots to help re-edit it) - but for the time being, I wanted to throw these up here, let you all see them, and find out if these are helpful, or if I'm wasting my time. The future of these lectures is in YOUR hands!!
The final thing I'll say before you click the link is that I've made these so that I speak out of the right channel, and the music plays out of the left channel. This is so you can turn me off, and listen to the music (after going through it once with me talking) so you can listen for yourself. If I'd have mixed the audio, and stood there (like a lemon) while it played, these things would have been twice their length and size!!
You need Quicktime in order to play these videos. Quicktime 7 is better (as the files are smaller, and quicker for you) but as long as you've got QT6, you'll be ok. If you don't have either, go to www.quicktime.com to download a copy.
Lecture Download Section
Video Downloads Just click on the links, the videos will open up in Pop-Up windows
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Introduction and Driving Rhythms |
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>Lecture 2
B'loom and l'Boom |
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Video Downloads Just click on the links, the videos will open up in Pop-Up windows
