When do you know its the right time to start looking for giggs?
When do you know its the right time to start looking for giggs? Posted on: 06.02.2013 by Jolynn Schroyer So i've been practicing my mixing techniques quite a bit. On & Off for over a year and I was believeing about going to some hookah bars and playing for free just to get comfortable with the live experience. But how do I know if i'm ready? I don't want to make a fool out of myself. | |
| Wilson Durrum 07.02.2013 |
Originally Posted by Le Goat
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| Rena Estabrook 07.02.2013 |
Originally Posted by Jester
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| Hipolito Scionti 07.02.2013 |
Originally Posted by squidot
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| Deangelo Boender 07.02.2013 |
Originally Posted by hola amigos
I had a buddy ask me to start djing at his rock venue between bands, he likes the music between bands to contrast against the music that the bands play, so as long as I'm not spinning hard rock, I'm pretty much on the ball. It's at most twenty minutes between each band, four to six times a evening . If there's any kind of place like that around you, maybe talk to them. Low key performances, in a place that is already all about the music! hand out some business cards, talk to some folks? |
| Jolynn Schroyer 07.02.2013 | never done house party yet i'm out in a new city no contacts out here. |
| Wilson Durrum 07.02.2013 |
Originally Posted by Le Goat
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| Catharine Okamura 07.02.2013 | When you can spell gigs |
| Rena Estabrook 07.02.2013 |
Originally Posted by Jester
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| Wilson Durrum 07.02.2013 | Once you feel you are comfortable mixing tracks, you just have to get out and do it live. Playing live in front of people is way different then practicing at home and you will learn more about reading the crowd and know what to play next. |
| Oretha Afful 07.02.2013 | normally you're ready to DJ out at clubs right after you unpack your mixtrack out of it's box and download the beatport top 100 from a blog. At least that's what it seems like in my town |
| Latoria Kavulich 07.02.2013 | have you done any house parties or anything like that? get lots of those under your belt. |
| Hipolito Scionti 07.02.2013 |
Originally Posted by squidot
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| Jolynn Schroyer 07.02.2013 | Eh I believe I need to come up with more tricks up my sleeve anyways, the only way of mixing I know how to do. Is the simple transition when track is 16 counts away from ending start new track. That's probably not that entertaining for a crowd. I'll keep watching the 5 basic transitions and keep practicing them. |
| Deangelo Boender 07.02.2013 |
Originally Posted by hola amigos
I had a buddy ask me to start djing at his rock venue between bands, he likes the music between bands to contrast against the music that the bands play, so as long as I'm not spinning hard rock, I'm pretty much on the ball. It's at most twenty minutes between each band, four to six times a evening . If there's any kind of place like that around you, maybe talk to them. Low key performances, in a place that is already all about the music! hand out some business cards, talk to some folks? |
| Stanley Topoleski 07.02.2013 | you know its time when your wife or parents keep screaming at you to find a job and help with the bills lolol actually when you feel comfortable, you will want to go out and do shows and find gigs |
| Cole Maroto 07.02.2013 | you may be the best troll we've got. kudos! |
| Jolynn Schroyer 07.02.2013 | True I will keep practicing and probably hold off on the hookah bars. I don't want to turn peoples evening into a shit fest. If I'm not confident on what genre to play then I'm probably not ready anyways. |
| Adrien Witkus 07.02.2013 |
Originally Posted by Culture_Shock
It's blunt, but I've got to agree. The best way to look at it is that you're not any better at DJing than the crowd believes you are. They don't care about your smooth transitions. They don't know what transitions are. All they care about is what the sound coming out of the speakers is at the uneven intervals of their conversation going silent. The most important thing for a gig like this is the music you're playing. Unfortunately, the way you're playing it almost doesn't matter. |
| Deangelo Boender 07.02.2013 |
Originally Posted by hola amigos
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| Jolynn Schroyer 07.02.2013 | I have hundreds of songs. That's not the problem, I literally dig through my music collection and it never ends. It's like a puzzle I spend hours trying to find songs that fit well with each other for smooth solid transitions. |
| Deangelo Boender 07.02.2013 | Take it one step at a time, my first "gigs" were switching cds out of the stereo at house parties. You might go at a quicker pace than I, but the idea is to make playing music in front of people so natural that you don't bat an eye at it. Start small, and let your gigs grow with your abilities. That being said, my best bit of technical advice for getting through the turbulence of your first few gigs is to have as wide a variety of music as you can afford. I have been gigging out for years, and every evening I still come home with a list of songs that I feel stupid for not having already! |
| Jolynn Schroyer 06.02.2013 | Maybe some house music then to start it off? |
| Latoria Kavulich 06.02.2013 | mate, leave the psy for the last hour or so, the folks will dig it (thats what we do). the main thing when you step out of the bedroom is you gotta learn to gauge the vibe of the place, what peeps are into etc. all comes with some experience. |
| Jolynn Schroyer 06.02.2013 | lol sounds good, now it's time to phone some of the local hookah bars to try and book a gigg. I'm not sure if a hookah bar is the correct spot for some psychedelic trance but i'll try it out anyways. |
| Latoria Kavulich 06.02.2013 | Put a demo together and go for it. You won't know if you suck till you try eh make sure you can play for 6 hours if necessary. |
| Vickey Fransway 06.02.2013 | You will know when you are ready AFTER you have made a fool of yourself a few times and gotten over it. X |
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