How to DJ - Ep. 1 (1/5) - Sarah Main - Entering The Scene

For Episode 1, Part 1, Sarah Main has the 400 series set up in her villa and talks us through the basic skills you need to get started as a DJ, step by step.

So hit play to find out more, from entering the scene to setting up your DJ kit, accessing different audio formats, and the basic principles of mixing (music monitoring using headphones, beatmixing through counting beats, bars and phrases, and so on).

Look out for parts 2-5 with Sarah Main, coming soon.

How to DJ is produced by DJdownload.com and Ministry of Sound TV and features Sarah Main (Episode 1), Phil K (Episode 2) and James Zabiela (Episode 3).

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[Almalexia88]

A good tip for counting bars that i found was to do it like this:

One Two Three Four

Two Two Three Four

Three Two Three Four

Four Two Three Four

Five  Two Three Four

Six Two Three Four

Seven Two Three Four

Eight Two Three Four

Enjoy! :)

[ThePellerhead]

do you get woman making stupid disrespectfull sexual comments about men in videos showing tutorials?? she isnt there for that kind of shit response.. show some fucking respect and grow up

[MsTrance1]

SHES SO hOOOOOOOOOOOOT

[djmindzor]

hey sarah i just finished i dj course, now i am looking for a dj set. do you think it is good to buy the pioneer cdj-200 or are them to old? i want to keep the budget down and i want to buy stuff from pioneer basically cause i practiced on them?

cheers :)

[viirusone]

nice mullet

[Almalexia88]

@BlackBird941

No, your screwed if you skip a bar, this ensures you don't fail

[BlackBird941]

@Almalexia88 i just count to 8 four times

[Djsilverodoet]

Great job this covers the basic of dance music . I agree there are dj eho dont beat sync or understand how to do it. We are being spoiled by the beat sync and sometimes it's a little off.

Keep the Party Rockin

Dj Silverodo

[NamelessBert]

lol, shes living the dream? ehm, make your own music, stop mxing other peoples ;)

[asaily0]

Wow.. that actually makes sense!

No wonder sometimes I just know when something else is going to come in O.o

[nightfire4107]

that's an amazing dream