2 chorus is it for me, thousands of gigs and I think it’s always the best. Exceptions sometimes also

Are there any pitfalls to preparing an entire set list for a gig? I’ve heard other DJs advise against it… but I kinda like the idea of having an entire playlist prepared in advance…

@@jetdeleon just helps so your not scrambling looking for songs. Unless you know what songs you wanna play. A set helps things move along smother

Facts

You mean use artistic judgement. That actually requires an artist.

He didn’t say the crowd gives him crap. He gets it. He understands the formula. He’s saying that djs that take his advice and do it wrong get the bad reaction from the crowd

I agree, is about finding a balance of where you play the 1st couplet and where you also play the 2nd one. Quick mixing or not. Building up the energy could also be even more important.

Always in sync lol

Care to enlighten?

Although, they LOVE singing “I never” at the end too if you run it.

I do the same thing. If a song is playing like 2 to 2 and a half minutes...I'm normally transitioning to the next song. Unless it's a banger like "Back That Ass Up" that I don't need to cut

Curious what type of gigs you use this for? The attention spans I see most often for club gigs these days (which are inherently younger crowds) is 1 verse, 1 chorus max on most songs. Even starting to see it more in wedding and other non club gig crowds also.

@@Miguelrockwell I do more weddings than anything, but I also use this method in bars, at corporate gigs, and several other event types. I’m not doing clubs currently. I did those back in the mid 2000’s, so I’m sure things have changed a lot since then. It seems to satisfy their want to sing a long with the songs without boring them by playing the whole song.

@@torianconerly8736 yeah, I have a few songs that I won’t mess with. Mr. Brightside is one of them.

I am a nightclub dj but you think exactly the same as me. Although I hadn’t articulated it I do mix songs that are vocal forward or melody forward differently and when you said about skipping to Nicki on bottoms up I laughed cause I do the same thing. I have been to 2 weddings in the last few weeks and both had boring djs who didn’t quick mix and as someone who sometime only plays a chorus it was hard to not have my critics head on and know in 2023 when everyone is frying their brains on TikTok etc. you have to be fast and reactive. I also do the clockwise method of bpm riding. 😂 If you are any kind of dj listen to Nick he is right about this.

no, cos it sounds shit and seems to be only for DJs playing commercial shit

It doesn't work every time... That being said, when the dance floor starts I use the first minutes to understand what the crowd wants. If they don't react to known song intros and if I feel they get bored easily, I transition to quick mixing whenever possible. If they want to "listen" music while they're dancing, I do longer mixes. I believe in my country there is a tendency to the younger the crowd is, the most often I need to quick mix. Older people (Gen-Y and above) are used to listen and dance to full songs... That's just my experience DJing weddings for the last 15 years.

Of course! You have to quick mix but some songs have to be played the whole way. Like Nick says read the crowd!

i saw apollo quick mix in the late 90s and thought it was a style best suited for the club. he would sometimes get on the mic after a quick transition and say "as we keep it movin." i imagine apollo learned it from club and radio jocks like cameron paul who were famous for their early 80s mega-mixes. nowadays cats like four color zack have taken quick mixing to another creative level. it's a method i've always preferred and aim to apply regardless of the setting. it does take tight organization and experience to fire off song after song. that said, it is also good idea to let a few songs in your set "breathe", especially those with a deep groove

Shorter attention spans mainly. In the past we were trained to wait for things. Now with high speed internet everything is available immediately. If it's boring users are used to skip with ease. And that dopamine hit of "ooooh I recognise the track" is addictive. People don't watch lineair TV or actively listen to radio anymore. They're used to choosing themselves. As a DJ you provide people music without them being able to change the song themselves. So essentially you need to provide that dopamine hit faster than in the past.

@@IanDeVos- I think that people (regardless of age) will generally listen to older songs from start to finish because… older songs are complete songs. The fact that DJs are asked to “cut to the juice” of newer songs shows that newer songs are lacking. If newer songs were completely interesting from start to finish… would anyone want to cut them off?

If newer songs were completely interesting from start to finish, would people want to cut them off?

@@jetdeleon perhaps but newer pop songs are already shorter on their own. And I do cut off older music as well. Some special tracks are changing enough throughout, but do we really need three times the same chorus? Plus: not everybody likes the same music, so a classic to you might turn me off. So if you insist to let it play, I might get bored/irritated. I don't really like to listen to older music than what I knew as a kid/teen. I'm younger than you, so I'm not going to enjoy that 80's stuff. I'm a 90's kid. Give me the 90's euro dance or late 90's - early 00's trance etc to get me going. And I also was into gabber hardcore back then. But I other than one or two hardcore classics I don't think I'd get away with playing longer stretches of hard dance without clearing the floor. Same with metal or any other specific genre that not many people know. Same with trance: Push - Universal Nation. Absolute trance classic. Gets played every time you'd visit a retro/90's party over here. With a huge "whooooo!" reaction every time. My wife doesn't like it, playing the full 10 minutes would bore her to death. Just like with others not into trance. But to trance people, it's one of the biggest classics ever. It's a tale as old as time that older people say new music sucks while older music was good. Kids growing up with current music will say the same thing when they are our age. Especially on occasions where multiple generations and walks of life come together it's not hard to see why you'd want to keep things moving. Even the number one classics are "meh" to others who would want to cut it short.

@@IanDeVos - it’s so subjective that it seems like a dilemma that will never be fully solved… at least not in perpetuity… One of my mentors explained his strategy which apparently works well for him as a wedding DJ… Because there’s such a broad range of backgrounds (hence various types of dancers) at a wedding, it’s important that the wedding DJ knows how to appeal to each of them… According to my mentor, the best way to keep wedding guests from getting bored is to learn how to rotate the various types of dancers in attendance… And the best way to do that is through what he calls “The Rule of Three”…. Which states that you never play more than three songs of the same genre consecutively… So… 3 songs at a time of each generalized genre: 3 hip hop songs, then 3 EDM songs, then 3 rock songs, etc… When you play 3 songs consecutively of the same genre, the fans of that genre will get to dance for approximately 10-15 minutes… which is just long enough to feel like they got a chance to have some fun, but not so long that they get bored with it while the other dancers feel left out and start to think about leaving… Once that set of dancers have danced to their genre for 10-15 minutes… you would start the next genre for a new set of dancers… This way, people are less inclined to think that it’s just going to be one or two types of music all night… they’ll know that they’ll have their turn… It’s worth mentioning that the underlying principle of “The Rule of Three” is not so much that it must be exactly 3 songs…. It’s more about the time duration… So if you can quick mix 7 songs into a 10-15 minute duration… you’ll have given one set of dancers enough time to have some fun, before moving on and rotating to the next set of dancers for their 10-15 min genre set… Does that make sense? And what do you think?

then you shoulda came straight in with that beyonce break my soul ....assuming you talking bout robin s show me love!!!!!!!!!!

@@djsmellnloud7246 yeah that could have worked!

Hi, what’s “slam”?

@@jetdeleon like dropping it on the one

@@The1000sHTown - ahh ok… so it’s like cutting right to the 1 of the incoming track without blending or anything

@@jetdeleon correct

@@The1000sHTown - right on.. thanks!

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