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DJing for Dummies




DJing for Dummies ®

Ref: 978-0-470-03275-6

Price: £15.99
DJing for Dummies ®

A comprehensive, easy-to-understand and fun-to-read guide to scratching your way from the privacy of your bedroom to the heights of club notoriety.

If you've ever heard Grandmaster Flash, or spent hours in your bedroom with two turntables and a microphone and thought you could give it a stab, DJ'ing For Dummies is the ideal guide. Walking you through the basics of mixing, through to the many techniques and tricks you need to learn to create your own personal dj'ing style, to how to make dj'ing work for you, everything is covered in this handy guide.

DJ'ing For Dummies will cover:

Part 1: What to Buy to Get Started
o Introduction
o Basic, and better, turntable Gear
o Headphones
o Accessories
o Combinations of gear - buying on a budget
o Buying records

Part 2: How it All Works
o What things do
o Setting Up
o Tech stuff - maintaining your gear

Part 3: The Point of DJ'ing
o Basic mixing
o Beat Structure
o Better mixing
o Mixing using CDs
o Developing a style
o Scratching

Part 4: Getting Noticed and Playing Live
o Making tapes
o Getting work
o Agencies
o Playing live + one night on the decks

Part 5: The Part of Tens
o Ten things about mixing you'll sorry you forgot
o Ten reasons why you bought the wrong equipment
o Ten terrible things about being a DJ

FREE FOR DUMMIES® GIFT
WITH THIS BOOK WITH OUR COMPLIMENTS -
 Simon Smith


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Condition: New
Author: John Steventon
Format: Paperback
Pages:408
ISBN: 978-0-470-03275-6
Publisher: UK Dummies
Publish Date: December 1, 2006
Edition:
Language: English
Education Level:

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