Posts Tagged ‘playing music’
Bay Area DJ, The Man and The Music
All my life I have been associated with music. When I was a 12 year old kid, I learned to play guitar on an old Harmony (cheap) acoustic guitar I found in a house my parents rented in Walla Walla, Washington. The guitar was missing three strings, which I used about a month’s allowance to replace, and I bought a book, Harry Reesner’s Book of 1,000 Chords. A whole new life opened up to me. Read the rest of this entry »
How to Be a Great DJ Lesson #4 – DJ Equipment
Amplifiers, Speakers, Turntables, Disk Players,Computers & Mixers
In Lesson #1, I indicated that a great DJ must have a practical, working knowledge of his client. In Lesson #2, I gave some tips on how to handle music, and Lesson #3 covered a very profitable line of DJ work, The Wedding. In this lesson, I wish to expand upon the few comments in Lesson #2 regarding equipment.
Read the rest of this entry »How to Be a Great DJ Lesson #1 – Get to Know Your Client
As a DJ I’ve played hundreds of “gigs” over the years, and I’ve watched as a guest while other poor, fair, good, or sometimes great DJ’s ply their trade, and I believe that not all of them knew how to improve their DJ skills. Most of them were probably self-taught, maybe had tried getting together in a dance band that didn’t work out, maybe had some extra equipment, a friend asks them to play music for a birthday party, and Read the rest of this entry »