DJ 101: A free community workshop

No experience necessary! Come learn something new for free!

This course is an introduction to the basic theory and techniques of contemporary Dee Jaying. The objective is to identify the fundamental principles and innovations that changed regular Dee Jaying to Hip Hop Dee Jaying and the new way of creating sound to make music. Topics include learning about measures and bars in music theory, counting beats per minute, looping and sampling sounds, scratching sounds, beat matching, taking a look into the hardware used by Dee Jays, and using different effects.

This course provides the basic knowledge, skills, and abilities to Dee Jay music when using certain electronic components. This course demonstrates how to use a mixer with two turntables in hardware and software forms. Activities include to sample or loop recordings, counting beats per minute, the quick mix theory, creating the scratch sound and, using effects.

Workshop Outcomes

After completing this course, you should be able to;

• Count the beats per minute for Dee Jay Mixing.

• Loop and sample music.

• Create the scratch sound.

• Performe Beat matching.

We hope you can make it :)