Practice Sets?

i disagree. you should be mixing in key, or at the very least, mixing things that aren't causing dissonance. for certain more atonal genres it really doesn't matter that much. or in areas where there are no melodies, though if you have an out of key melody come in immediately after your first track's melody stops, it will likely still sound odd to people who are paying attention.

also, it's not really a bad thing to be limiting the number of songs to be played into another song. key is just one narrowing factor along with several others. i do however feel like you shouldn't put all of your faith into a key tagging software, especially if you don't have enough tracks to pick from. at the end of the day your ear should be the best judge and in charge of making sure your mixes are in key.

first..stop mixing shit in key....you are limiting yourself before you even start...

Paralyzed muscle memory? wtf are you smoking bro... p90x? insanity? your from Jersey right? this is a dj community stop taking steroids and hanging out with Pauly D and mix more... btw i love your mix.... you know the one with taylor swift as the opening banger

Thats not what muscle memory is. In fact thats impossible. Training and practice is to train your brain to react to something making it 2nd nature. Your brain will process faster because it used to the action you practiced. Its all mental. To suggest that your muscle somehow develops a memory by doing something over and over again and will process before your brain is rediculous. Its like saying a 30 yo wouldn't be paralyzed from the waist down from a spinal chord injury because his legs spent 30 years walking and developed a memory and doesn't need the brain for the motion of walking.

Muscle memory refers to the building up of a muscle to the point where the muscle won't grow any bigger thus developing a kind of "memory". If you lift a 30lb weight every day, doing 10 reps, the first day it may be hard, each day it will get easier and easier because your muscle will build up. Eventually your muscle is used to that 30lb weight and plateaus developing a memory and won't get any bigger so you have to move to a bigger weight. Ther are several new types of workouts, p90X, Insanity, etc. that use muscle memory to build up quickly because these workouts are designed so your muscles never develop a memory by switching up the workout to use those muscles differently enabling a person to go from flab to insanely ripped in 90 days. That is what muscle memory is.

Thats not what muscle memory is.

Muscle memory refers to the building up of a muscle to the point where the muscle won't grow any bigger thus developing a kind of "memory".

So you just want to 'Technically' recreate another set?

I kinda of have to agree about it being a bizarre question. Maybe its just me, but I feel like in this day and age everyone wants exact clear cut instructions on how to do something. Djing is about feeling the music and being creative and that is something that can't be taught. You can practice mixing techniques, chaining different effects, beatmatching etc.

You compared it to flying model airplanes. There is a clearcut way to do a certain manuever and a clearcut way to string along mauevers in a sequence. In DJing there is no clearcut way.

Song selection is subjective and relevant to the crowd in the building at that time, or the audience the DJ is playing too. You're not going to learn much from copying another DJ's set list... Maybe you'll learn to mix in key, or when to drop tunes, but that's not song selection. Nor reading a crowd.

You'll learn more by playing out and emptying a dance floor.

Just my 2c.