Jona Menasso

Paul, post: 1803 wrote: Hey I feel you brotha! I don’t have any real DJ friends, nor does my friends are interested in DJing. They do listen when I play, but none of them shows interest in our art. What I did is research, read, research, experiment.

I don’t have formal music training, but I do know how to play the guitar by the chords, but not by notes. You see, EDM is not really a big hit in our country as we are a predominantly rock and pop music country. Thanks to D. Guetta and company, EDM is now slowly growing by the bit.

I must admit, it really gets quite lonely at times. But DDJT and the forums is keeping me company quite well 😀

Thats for sure bro… many of you are just completing my original post/thread…

and your friends might be curious about djing but they just dont share the the same passion as i assume you do have about EDM… that is my case… maybe we all think this secretly to “ourselves” but i think i am the “ultimate music freak” LMFAO

mr_john, post: 1799 wrote: i took 3 years of band class, played first chair trumpet, and I can’t tell you what notes are what. I only knew notes by finger position not A, E, G etc… All i can do is count to 4 and listen. So i guess I have a musical education? idk though, learned nothing about theory, have no idea why some songs are 3/4, 2/8 etc. or what that even means other than you count to 3 instead of 4… haha guess my teacher was bad

you had a teacher… you can tell wich notes are playing… and about counting to 4 i either didnt understood what your were talking about or i really dont know what you were talking about… so that proves my point…

You Are Musically Educated… LOL

Of course pretty much like The Relativity theory, everything is relative:
you have musical education reltively to me but a guy that know about all that stuff you just talked about an even more might think he is musically educated and that you are not…

but i am not… xD

Adam Sharizman, post: 1793 wrote: Lol, I read somewhere it’s not actually needed. As long as you know what phrases, bar and the likes are it’s okay. Some BPM counting as well. I never knew much about this but EDM always change every 32 beats O.O!! Only recently did I learned about that. Thanks to the forum, I also learned more about build up and break downs O.O which never bothered me before. If you’re wondering what key is the music being played and al,l often, the software does it for you. Although it may not be accurate sometimes but that’s all if you want to mix in key.

yep all that and some more stuff i already “teached myself” (LOL)… i dont think it as to change every 32 beats… i think people need to innovate in order to succeed… so i dont think that is realy important… oh and that is one thing you teched right now… thanks…

Adam Sharizman, post: 1778 wrote: Welcome mate! Actually quite a few people I know started alone. They had no connections with other DJs whatsoever. Only recently I started noticing 2 other DJs and we barely even talk. It’s hard being the newbie but your connections will slowly grow. Check out your old friends or maybe people you don’t speak to much. Sometimes they may have a good knowledge on DJing once.

This forum is really helpful so if you have any questions do ask.

Being two weeks into this and reading a lot about it is good! Do you have a setup up and running?

Well, first of all, thank for your reply…

second: it doesnt really mather, but i think you misundertood me.
i have been reading a lot about djing for the past two weeks but i was fascinated about dj’s and djing since 2009… bought my BCD 3000 1 year ago but i had to concentrate myself on my Electrical Instalations course (is it said like that?) and just started getting “serious” in january ’11 (but still not being able to dedicate as much as i would like)…

in resume: since i started “dedicating” myself was when started to feel alone and lost (and needing feedback on what i am doing).
But yes! im starting alone in the djing part. about the production i have some help from my stepfather (which is a professional musician and also works in a studio but nothing related to dance music)… but i like to consider myself an “autolearner” and i allways ask for help when i need it…

Also i have no musical education, only the litlle bits i gather myself…. that sucks and concerns me a lot…

D-Jam, post: 1667 wrote: You seriously suck…hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah :p

I’m just kidding. I like the bouncy synths, but think they don’t work well with the beat and bassline. You should explore a more bouncy “jackin” kind of beat. Reminds me of stuff I used to hear on Relief Records.

Thank you d-jam for your nice feedback 😉

Benny Mackney, post: 1579 wrote: The counts are a little unorthadox, and it puts me off a bit because the track is doing something unexpected. A good example of this is the 24 beat section at about 0:48 – 1:00. My ears are expecting it to go for 32 beats and then it drops off early and it just feels… wrong, I suppose. Not that I’m saying it’s terrible :L No, you have some nice tunes going there, it’s just the structure is a little off-putting.

Thank you benny… that is just what i am expecting to ear from you guys… i am going to improve it…