conversations.from: human
conversations.value: a title for a book about Whether, DJing, Dummies with the genre: Arts & Photography, Music
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'DJing for Dummies'
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Give me the first four paragraphs for this book.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: DJing for Dummies
  Compilation CDs: Compilation albums with 20 or more separate, individual tunes from different artists on them can help the party or wedding DJ build a large music collection for a small amount of money.
  One compilation CD can contain the entire track list for an evening. Buy two copies of the same CD so that you can mix from one to the other, and you'll have a record collection for £20, whereas the individual tunes together would probably cost you £100!
  Mixed CD compilations: Whether you're looking for pop music, commercial dance music or rock and pop tunes, you may come across a lot of premixed CD albums that contain a whole load of tracks that you'd like to get your hands on.
  The problem with mixed CDs is that lifting only one tune out of the original DJ's mix to use in your own set is hard to do because of the overlapping between the intro and outro of tunes. If, for example, a mix CD contains 'Jump' by Van Halen and the DJ mixed Foo Fighter's 'Everlong' into it, the end of 'Jump' and the intro of 'Everlong' will mix together. If you want to play Everlong in one of your mixes, and choose to start it from the very beginning, you'll still hear Van Halen playing. You need to have a clean version of Everlong (just the tune on its own) in order to keep this a nice-sounding mix, which you don't have on a mixed compilation CD.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Give me five more paragraphs.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: When you're used to hearing the different sounds that beats make when they're playing too fast or too slow, the next step is to match the beats by adjusting the pitch control without looking at where the other deck's pitch control is set, using only your ears as your guide.
  Using identical tunes, increase the pitch control on the live one but this time with something covering the reading, so you know that it's increased but you can't cheat by looking at where the pitch control is set to. A bit childish I know, but from now on your cheating DJ days are over.
  To match the pitch control on the cued tune to this new setting, I consider four different ranges of adjustment:
  If the cued tune starts to play too slowly immediately, increase the pitch control by about 4 per cent and perform your preferred error correction method to get the beats playing at the same time (see 'Adjusting for errors', earlier in this chapter).
  If you then hear B'loom when you stop the error correction (which means you've sped up too much, but the beats aren't drifting apart as fast as they were in the last step), reduce the pitch a little, by about 1 per cent.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Swap the first and the last sentence.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: If you then hear B'loom when you stop the error correction (which means you've sped up too much, but the beats aren't drifting apart as fast as they were in the last step), reduce the pitch a little, by about 1 per cent.
  Using identical tunes, increase the pitch control on the live one but this time with something covering the reading, so you know that it's increased but you can't cheat by looking at where the pitch control is set to. A bit childish I know, but from now on your cheating DJ days are over.
  To match the pitch control on the cued tune to this new setting, I consider four different ranges of adjustment:
  If the cued tune starts to play too slowly immediately, increase the pitch control by about 4 per cent and perform your preferred error correction method to get the beats playing at the same time (see 'Adjusting for errors', earlier in this chapter).When you're used to hearing the different sounds that beats make when they're playing too fast or too slow, the next step is to match the beats by adjusting the pitch control without looking at where the other deck's pitch control is set, using only your ears as your guide.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Give me the last paragraph.. Start with the sentence 'Sometimes, I finish my set at four o'clock in the morning, and am in no mood to keep the buzz going by listening to more pumping tunes on the way home'.
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conversations.value: Sometimes, I finish my set at four o'clock in the morning, and am in no mood to keep the buzz going by listening to more pumping tunes on the way home. So I keep a copy of the soundtrack to the film The Big Blue in my car for such occasions. It contains some of the most fantastic pieces of music I've heard in a long time. My wife Julie worries about the music sending me to sleep on the drive home, but all it does is take the edge off the natural high I've got from an evening of energy and musical rapture (but it doesn't do much about the caffeine rush I have due to one too many of those energy drinks!).