Underground DJ Course
Underground House and Techno DJ Course | Lisbon
Let's Go
- →Mixer essentials
- →Beats & bars
- →Intro to beat matching
- →Equipment, set up, & ready to go
Arrangement of Underground Electronic Music
- →Pitch and identifying dissonance (known as clashing)
- →All about tune structure and why you need to know about it
- →Where to mix in and out
Building a Set
- →Tempo
- →Set order
- →Mix points
- →Tips on track choice
FX
- →All about filtering
- →FX in the mix dos and don'ts
- →Introduction to common FX
- →EQ
Our Extensive Pro Hardware & Software
- →Mixed In Key
- →Pioneer CDJ Nexus
- →Rekordbox
- →Traktor S4 and S8
- →Rane Serato Scratch
- →Technics SL-1210 vinyl turntables
Your Set
- →Fine tuning your set
- →Body language behind the decks
- →Mixing acapellas
Advanced Mixing & Digital Tricks
- →All about delay and reverb in the mix
- →Looping and making your own mash-ups on the fly
- →Impact mixing with levels and FX
- →Sampling and triggering
Advanced Set Building & Ad-libbing
- →Tempo change tips
- →Music programming, set times
- →Reading a crowd and having a 'plan b'
- →Out-of-the-box song choice
Preparing For Your Show
- →Preparing your set
- →Recording your set
- →Marketing and promoting your gig
After Your Show at The Exchange
- →EPK tips
- →Developing your sound
- →Marketing tips
- →How to get more gigs
36 Hours | In-Person: €999 | Online Remote Attendance: €599
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Lisbon's course runs in small groups at our studio, taught by working producers, with live-online attendance for students elsewhere in Portugal, using our specialist music collaboration software, Muse. The city's fast-growing electronic scene makes it a good place to learn this. Discover qualities that distinguish us, here.
What our students say.
“The Garnish DJ course gives you a full spectrum of experience from practicing your set, refining it, and then playing for an audience. The DJ course provided the knowledge and experience I needed to feel confident playing anywhere.”
Patrick Lewey
Who you'll learn from.
Questions we hear a lot.
The length is in the glance strip at the top of this page, and the tuition for this campus - with the registration fee and any early-booking rate - sits just above the call to action.
Yes. Sessions run in person at this campus and live online at the same time, so you join whichever suits you.
Yes - ask admissions about private instruction and we will pair you with a specialist in this subject.
If you make the grade after assessment you are invited to play at our night, in a top venue in the city. Every student so far has made the grade.
Underground house and techno, taught to a professional standard by a DJ plugged into the city's underground scene.
Never more than four.
36 Hours | In-Person: €999 | Online Remote Attendance: €599
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