DJ Course: Basic

Overview	You're excited by DJ-ing, love music and looking for that opportunity to become a DJ, play at a friend's party or just have some fun mixing it up. Point Blank's pioneering DJ courses cover everything you could possibly want to learn from simple DJ training to scratching - at the ultimate DJ academy.
Set up	The equipment you need, turntable and mixer set up, connections, troubleshooting and tips.
Beats, bars and phrasing	Understand how tunes are structured and learn counting methods to help choose the right area for mixing.
Drop mixing	the art of switching from one record to another, without matching the tempos of the two records.
Beat matching	How to keep two records playing in time together. Includes speeding up/slowing down techniques by hand, using the pitch adjustment fader, recognising different sounds on each record, where to mix in and out of the record.
Sound and levels	Get to grips with EQ, monitoring, headphone levels, panning, and level matching.
Tricks	Learn EQ tricks and fills, line/phono switch tricks, how to read the grooves on your records.
Scratching	Basic introduction to the art of scratching.
CD mixing	A comprehensive introduction to a very contemporary skill.
Promotion	How to contact and deal with useful organisations and clubs, how to put on your own night, sound systems, publicity and PR.
Demo CD	Graduate with a professionally recorded demo CD.