There’s a view online that keeps coming back: if you need DJ lessons, you probably shouldn’t bother DJing at all. The skills are simple enough to figure out yourself, and anyone with real potential will pick it up after a couple of YouTube videos and some time messing about with software. If it hasn’t “clicked” for you naturally, it never will.
I’ve been DJing since the early 1990s. I co-founded an award-winning club night called Tangled in Manchester and was a resident there for over a decade, right through the UK trance explosion. I’ve watched this craft evolve from vinyl-only to the incredible digital landscape we have today. This “natural talent or nothing” argument misses the point entirely – especially for the DJs who actually need to hear this.