How Pro DJs Keep The Dance Floor Full ALL NIGHT

Let's delve into the secrets of how Pro DJs keep a dance floor packed and full of energy. I'll share some practical tips and techniques that you can use to engage and excite your audience, no matter the genre or style of music you're playing. Learn how to select the right songs, transitions and design your set to control the energy levels and keep people dancing. With these strategies in your arsenal, you'll be able to create a dynamic and memorable experience for your audience.

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🔖 Contents

00:00 - Why energy matters
00:58 - Designing a club set
01:33 - DJ Handovers
03:15 - Elements For Set Structure
04:36 - Techniques for controlling energy levels

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[gorkem]

This is the kind of content I love. No bullshit blabbering / mumbling. Efficient, and high quality presentation. No begging for likes, comments and subscribes. Just packed with relevant information and good visuals. Thanks for your decency!

[MisterGames]

That jump from low to high... Was in a club, dance floor empty...next DJ comes on and BAM... There was like a boxing day sale rush to hit the dance Another club another night.... Energy ok, people on the floor decent... He threw in Snap Ive got the power... Instant emptying of the floor... And he kept the song going in its entirety and killed the mood and never got it back after and we left for another club. Those two moments have stayed with me for over 30 years.

[worldofgreenhell]

I was DJing for about 15 years as a hobby. For the good chunk of the events I was a warmup performer. The early 2000's breakbeat tunes were perfect to set the energy from zero to the guest playing after me, usually a DJ I know personally and knew what his/her performance is going to be. My trickiest gig was when we maxed out the venue limit and packed 600 people together and was playing after the headliner, realizing the crowd were having a lot of fun and if I screw this up they lynch me🤣 I decided to play a 2-2, which is 2 high energy tune followed by 2 lower energy tunes building up for the drop of the next 2 higher energy songs. This turned out to be perfect. They didn't get bored, but the didn't get exhausted as well.

[hedonism-bot]

Tip I found incredibly useful to accomplish this: “code” your track titles. By that, I mean add a cue in the beginning of your track names that let you know the relative energy and the style. For example:

4TH (energy 4, tech house)
6DpT (energy 6, deep techno)
8Brk (8, breaks)

And you can even play with that to hone it in to super specific cues. Like, a THDp would be mostly a tech house style, deep elements: as opposed to DpTH that’s a deep house track with a little tech house flair

Benefit of all this is when you are scrolling through hundreds of tracks, you don’t have to entirely remember what it sounds like. You’ll know by looking at your coding if it should mesh well as far as energy and style goes. And it allows you to establish a smooth flow staying the Same, moving up and/or down energy over the span of several tracks and your set as a whole

[GrouEEf]

So many DJs don't know what their job is. Had it last gig: the guy raised the level to the complete maximum before handing over. Gosh...

[ernestofrank]

I really enjoy your content. I feel like you are the first evidently knowledgeable DJ on YouTube who creates videos for DJs who are no longer beginners but are a step above and actually have fairly large gigs.

Often, I find it difficult to learn new tips and perspectives from other YouTubers who talk about DJing as they typically cater to outright beginners. However, your content doesn't, and it's really nice to be able to progress further in my DJ process with your content.

[wesleyolson]

I been djing for about 7 months now and I would say I’m familiar with the deck and controlling that itself. Then I hit a plateau and was wondering like what is it that I need to KEEP GOING UP because it is really my dream to become world class at this. The just a half hour ago I came across your channel. I know now this is what I needed. Not to keep watching “5 awesome mixing transitions” but rather what my brain should be thinking while I’m mixing, if that makes any sense, basically just through this video you really opened up my eyes that there’s a ton more to learn and I love it thankyou. If anyone is ever plateauing as well, this is the fucking guy right here.
Lastly your explanations are on a different level. Even the visuals are perfect the way the abstract visuals just make sense in my head is crazy hahaha. You have been extremely helpful, can’t wait to watch more videos.

[cheesegeezer]

Hi Chris, I’d love to see one of your sets and how you implement all these amazing tutorials. Theory is impeccable, but putting this to practice and demonstrating any of the wisdom you share would be great!!

[MicaAvali]

Thanks for the advise!
This is the level of abstraction I needed.

[adammachin]

Basically also the loudness war and dynamic range in pop digital music. More dynamic range more build up and reward.

[ziggytonumaa]

Thank u dude for this masterclass. Inspiring! I really struggle with the live set energy level stuff, love dj-ing but feel like i should give up since i suck so bad after years and yers but i still love doing it so im not finished yet :))

[DJTHRILLER]

Almost every video you post educates me on something. Fucking love it! Thanks 🙏

[DJ_CJ_NL]

as a dj for over 15 years, i never stop and learn, and i knew alot of these things allready and you make valid points, but these days the tiktok and the instant gratification generation really is harder to take on a journey that a dj set to me is nowadays. That being said, it is much more rewarding when you do get that momentum going though hahaha. Overall i would say there is less patient for music, less openess to new or unknown music and faster boredom.

[PJJP]

Some great advice here and as you say, all this should become intuitive with experience

[bartcoreful]

Really good advice and a great new channel, been mixing dnb at first and while I do like and mix other genres, I tend to mix them too fast! Anyways thanks for informative and quality content, will be looking forward to your next videos. Cheers from north Thailand!

[subradiant_music]

Dj moist 😂😂😂😂😂😂

One thing I don't like about being an opener is you have to your volume low

[TomTom-gnmp]

I've been DJing for 6 months now without handlebars (a controller) and I am very proud of how my sets sound.

[djsarumawashi]

LEARNED something very Important😀😀😀 GREETINGS from CABO VERDE ISLANDS🤩🤩🤩

[redmangoose]

Love the nuance you're bringing to these videos!

[MrGellert]

this friday night a mate came in the club abd asked if he could play in my timeframe, i was like sure, ill let you do the warmup, nice and easy, have fun...

it didn't take him 15 mins and somehow he transitioned from rominimal to psytech, which is far more energetic. i had to do some real gimnastics to raise the leveos back to an appropriate level, but i managed to do it in 3 tunes and the people really enjoyed it

don't be that guy, you are making other artist's time a lot harder