First DJ Gig - how to be prepared for anything!

Have you got your first DJ gig coming up and are concerned about the thing things that could go wrong? In this video I will go through some of the common problems DJs face when they turn up to play at clubs.

[ClubReadyDJSchool]

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[danielw]

After 2 years of bedroom DJing I have my first gig on Friday! It's at a sports venue and they just want me to play tracks thru a laptop so I won't even be on a controller or beat matching 😆 I don't care though, I'm stoked man!!!!@@

[SirHefferlot]

Hey! I'm just any other quarantine Dj who had his first gig last week and nailed it!

Just wanted to share and say thanks for all your tips and effort, really helped me!

[csragan]

Everything I know about dj’ing i learned from a small handful of YouTube channels, yours primarily. I’ve watched almost every tutorial and have recently landed a residency at a local club! Really great stuff, thank you for everything

[Official_fraze]

Bro i love your tutorials, your vibe 💫. Just keep doing 🌟

[jimblight]

An item I quickly found essential for troubleshooting is a Maglite Solitaire (or similar) on a lanyard. It makes checking sockets and plugs in dark corners behind unfamiliar mixers way quicker and easier.

[svvvvaaa]

hehehehehe dude u make me laugh about even critical things :D love that energy dudeeee <3

[DongRemixZen]

Thank you, I’m a DJ who just started to play, seeing your video helped me a lot, I'm very grateful.

[alechernandez]

I have two gigs this month, so hyped 🙌🏼 thanks Andrew

[MetalFreak]

My drunk ass at a music venue wasn't happy with the music and sweet talked my way to the booth, what a night

Now I really wanna get into DJing now, your videos are great.

[trippinjim]

Hey man!
Thought I would come back to this video to thank you, just DJed for the first time
in front of a crowd and was like a crowd of 30 (i’m in cayman islands so no covid cases)
anyway i have watched i think almost all your videos and i remember watching this one and u saying be ready for drunk people etc.
and i thought surely it can’t be that bad but surprisingly there was this one guy who kept asking me for songs and i told him i didn’t have them downloaded and he kept pestering now i didn’t mind too much but it was surprising how much ppl get involved.
anyway i wanna thankyou so much i’ve been learning for 3 months and if it were not for your videos i would not have been able to do as well as i did, people gave me a lot of praise even tho i made some many mistakes
also i’m gonna write what i could have done better here so i can remember cos i’m a little bit drunk atm which was one issue but it mainly meant i wasn’t as smooth as normal, also if u want ideas to include in any of ur videos this could help
my main problems were:
lack of popular song choice - this got worse towards the end as i only have a few ‘classics’ and crowd pleaser ones more focused on dnb
the speakers i had were not nearly loud enough i was in the red most of the time and so songs sounded distorted
was difficult to hear the songs in my headphones, i remember in another video u said turn down before u turn up but i didn’t try that and i am now going to bed with a massive headache and my ears still ringing
i agreed to do too long played for 3 hours had a lack of motivation and energy for the end
i mainly just looped in and out need to learn more techniques to switch songs in same bpm as well as completely different bpms
my main issue i wasn’t prepared enough which you talk about all the time but i think i get an excuse cos i only knew the day before and even the hour before i wasn’t feeling it.
also final thing funny story some guy came up to me and said i would be impressed if u didn’t have a computer but i don’t think he understood that i wasn’t syncing? and also that club decks still have screens on
all in all i got a lot of compliments was told i was even better than this guys mate he professionally djs and it is geniuenly all thanks to you obviously i put in time, but you provide some amazing free content and had i paid for ur lessons i reckon that would have solved my last few problems, unfortunately cant rlly afford it but even so the free lessons r some of the best on youtube especially with ur genuiness behind it
also 2 video ideas:
how to get with someone who’s hitting on u while u dj
and how to never get bored of the music ur playing (i know u said before to do 3 for them 1 for you but my genre would be in a completely different bpm?!)
anyways thankyou so much biggest respects

[peterdungjen]

I’m a bedroom dj and I just got my first gig at college at a frat party (it’s not even the college I go too it’s neighbor school) but I’m absolutely terrified and excited at the same time and it’s during the weekend of st pattys but this video really helped me ease up man

[Atzenwohnwagen]

Him going over everything that can get wrong got me stressed like hell haha

[Flightcoach]

Awesome video! Preparing for my first gig. Not booked yet but its coming I feel it. 🎉 btw the background music gets annoyingly loud at the last portion of the video!

[DjRoNINofficial]

Absolutely love the videos!!! 100% down to join/support!

[scotjackson]

Couldn’t get used to the delay in a large club sound system. It’s a completely different environment than having two speakers a few feet from either ear in your bedroom.

[TechGroove]

Good stuff. Playing my first gig on 17th August, this is going to help me a lot. Also can I please know the ID of the track playing in the background ?

[ozzy]

You should win world record for how many smiles in a video in all ur vids

[vvvvvvvvvetem]

Still a question: Do I tell the promoter or any official staff that its my first gig (do I even tell them while applying?), or do I just act like I'm a professional?

[xnicksomox]

Do you need 2 usb sticks as in 1 for each player or are you saying just for backup in case 1 of them doesn’t work?