If you are playing dance music the main thing to master is beat matching. If you dont know what that is, its basically taking two records and making the beats the same speed. You do this by adjusting the pitch speed on the turntables until they match, you have one record playing through the speakers and the other one playing in your headphones. Once the beat in your headphones matches the one that is playing through the speakers (you can hear them both by only wearing one headphone) then you can mix the two records together by using the cross fader. After that its just a matter of learning your records and deciding what part of the records you want to mix together. When you have got it down you should be able to take two beats off different records of different speeds and adjust them into one smooth mix. The learning curve depends on how much you practice like anything really, i would say 1 week is extremely optimistic though.
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Originally posted by koolruningz
Your welcome. It is alot of fun especially when it all starts to come together, but it can also be incredibly frustrating. There were numerous times when i almost threw my turntables out the window. Good luck.
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Yeah exactly that. I tried learning a few years back, and I just couldn't do it. I was almost as bad with the turntables as I was with drums, I just can't do two complicated things at once. DJing takes a hell of a lot more patience and skill than people give it credit for.