DJing for Beginners: The Basics and Beyond

Tips and tricks to learn how to mix like a DJ

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I really like electronic music, especially EDM, trance, and progressive house. When I go to a festival or a concert I always wonder, what the heck is the DJ doing? is she actually doing something, or is it all a lie 😬?

Also, I really like making playlists and producing music 🎵 — that I learnt during one of my first challenges. So I thought it would be a nice idea to put these playlists into mixes and to include my one song into them!

For these two reasons, I decided to get started with DJing as part of my Learning Lab challenge 🚀.

Learning preparation

This learning preparation follows the Learning Lab methodology 🎓.

1. Finding a mentor
   I contacted my friend Florence who is not a DJ but went through the learning process recently to get some tips!
2. Defining the scope of the topic
   The scope of the topic is to understand the basics of mixing, how to do seamless mixes, and how to make drops. Mostly for electronic music and is ideally usable for any style.
3. Choosing a learning resource
   I mainly used the book DJing for dummies, it's a bit long and some of the content could be skipped like how to find the right…