I apologize if I post this in the wrong forum...
I'm looking for some help and I hope someone here can offer some suggestions. My Dj career/hobby started about 6 months ago. I've got the gear, I've got the music, I feel confident in my style of song selection and reading the crowd and have been told I'm doing a great job at my performances. The other dj's in my area that I've been working with assured me they would show me the ropes. Well, I'm several months into performances and I feel I've tapped out their resources in ways of song transitions. My training there consisted of "try to stay close to the same BPM, so the next song lines up better" and if the BPM jump is too great, just say something on the mic to draw the attention away from the beat jump. I feel pretty comfortable beat matching and using tempo for small changes +/- 8beat changes or so. But the only form of "transitions" they use is just fade out the previous song and slam in the new one. I don't feel like I'm learning anything from them for smooth, good sounding transitions.
Do you all just use the volume faders for transitioning, or are you using something else? What is the best online resource for training transitions? I feel my transitions are simple and boring. I'm not trying to scratch or mix in anything crazy for every song, but just find ways to perform a more polished, smooth, flowy transition. Any thoughts or suggestions?
I'm looking for some help and I hope someone here can offer some suggestions. My Dj career/hobby started about 6 months ago. I've got the gear, I've got the music, I feel confident in my style of song selection and reading the crowd and have been told I'm doing a great job at my performances. The other dj's in my area that I've been working with assured me they would show me the ropes. Well, I'm several months into performances and I feel I've tapped out their resources in ways of song transitions. My training there consisted of "try to stay close to the same BPM, so the next song lines up better" and if the BPM jump is too great, just say something on the mic to draw the attention away from the beat jump. I feel pretty comfortable beat matching and using tempo for small changes +/- 8beat changes or so. But the only form of "transitions" they use is just fade out the previous song and slam in the new one. I don't feel like I'm learning anything from them for smooth, good sounding transitions.
Do you all just use the volume faders for transitioning, or are you using something else? What is the best online resource for training transitions? I feel my transitions are simple and boring. I'm not trying to scratch or mix in anything crazy for every song, but just find ways to perform a more polished, smooth, flowy transition. Any thoughts or suggestions?