Electronic Music DJ Course
Electronic Music DJ Course
Electronic Music DJ Course | San Francisco
The Garnish Electronic Music DJ course is a split-level course that incorporates the chance to play your own DJ slot at a club night at various prestigious locations in downtown San Francisco – assuming you make the grade! To date, every student has!
The course has been devised in such a way that it caters for both beginners and bedroom DJs. And there’s no better way to learn from one of our exceptional roster of Electronic Music DJ instructors than in a group that never exceeds five students. In our DJ lab, you’ll find a generous selection of all the industry-standard gear that you’d expect to find in respectable club venues. This includes Pioneer Nexus decks with Rekordbox, Serato, Native Instruments Traktor with S8 controllers and even some vinyl decks (Technics 1200s) for the avid student to get to grips with. The whole course has been designed to be fun, and not some stuffy set of lectures – as that’s the best way to learn. If learning to play the most popular genres of electronic music under these terms sounds good to you, it’s time to sign up!
This is a fully comprehensive course that differs from our Underground DJ course in that the experience of your tutor and fellow-participants will be in the popular electronic music genre. Previously, we were not able to run genre-specific courses for DJs as our instructors couldn’t cover the specific music tastes of all participants – getting the perfect instructor was a matter of luck! Now that we’ve been able to specialize, we’re delighted to be able to offer this Electronic Music DJ course, where every participant can be secure in the knowledge that only like-minded fellows and instructors are taking part.
We aren’t able to guarantee that club nights will always be scheduled directly after your course, so if you’re attending this San Francisco course from further afield, that’s definitely worth bearing in mind. Therefore, if you aren’t able to make the lineup on the date in question, but would like to do so on a future night, please note that we’ll do our very best to make that happen.
101
Let’s Go
- Equipment, set up, and ready to go
- Mixer essentials
- Beats and bars
- Intro to beat matching
- The structure of electronic music
Arrangement of Electronic Music
- Pitch and identifying dissonance (known as clashing)
- Where to mix in and mix out
- Differences you need to know between Trap/Bass and ‘Four-On-The-Floor’
Building a Set
- Tips on track choice
- Tempo
- Set order
- Mix points
- Teaser mixes
FX
- Introduction to common FX
- EQ
- All about filtering
- FX in the mix dos and don’ts
Our Pro Hardware & Software
- Traktor S4 and S8
- CDJ Nexus
- Rekordbox
- Rane Serato Scratch
- Technics SL-1210 vinyl turntables
- Mixed In Key
201
Your Set
- Fine tuning your set
- Mixing acapellas
- Reading a crowd and having a ‘plan b’
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
- Body language behind the decks
Advanced Set Building & Ad-libbing
- Out-of-the-box song choice
- Tempo change tips
- Music programming
Preparing for Your Show
- Recording your set for submission
- Marketing and promoting your gig
After Your Show at the Exchange
- How to keep the momentum going and get more gigs
- EPK tips
- Developing your sound
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