Name: 【TED-Ed】Getting started as a DJ: Mixing, mashups and digital turntables - Cole Plante
Uploaded: 2015-02-01T04:23:56.000Z
Duration: 10 min 37 s
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No, I'm a DJ/Producer, as it says on the screen.

How many high school students do we have out here?

I'm a proud member of my school's marching band,

and I've worked with artists that you may know,

Krewella, Porter Robinsion, Carnage, and many others.

How many of you guys like rap or trap hip hop?

That's good, you guys have smart minds, that's good.

is that you can combine all these genres into one idea,

dance, hip hop, trap, dubstep, even movie samples,

DJing creates this, sort of, combined culture

is Skrillex and A$AP Rocky's collaboration

or, most recently, Avicii and Ella Black's "Wake Me Up."

was mix a Kanye West intro from "Black Skinheads"

I'm going to do another little example for you guys right now

and it takes the vocals from Krewella's "Alive."

How many of you guys know that song? "Alive"?

I'm going to take the vocals from that track

and the song "Language" by Porter Robinson.

So, let me just play you the vocals first.

So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to fill these vocals

and create a new song, a kind of combined song,

you can just hear I'm playing it a capella

Now, what I'm going to do after this drops

One of the most important things about dance music

so I'm going to change it into another song

So, as you saw, I took three different songs

and kind of combined them into one new idea,

which is something plenty of DJs do out there

There are plenty of ways to get started DJing.

was really take the time to study DJs that inspired me.

is to ask a friend, you know, a friend who knows how to DJ.

Just go over there, ask him a few questions.

If no that, thankfully we have a lot of great online resources.

One of the things you can do is check out YouTube,

Now, many DJs, a high percentage of them,

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