https://djtechtools.com/2017/09/04/regulars-notice-avoid-playing-dj-set-every-week/ The largest community for DJ and producer techniques, tutorials, and tips. Traktor secrets, controller reviews, a massive MIDI mapping library, and more. Sat, 27 Jan 2018 17:19:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://djtechtools.com/2017/09/04/regulars-notice-avoid-playing-dj-set-every-week/#comment-302892 Sat, 27 Jan 2018 17:19:57 +0000 http://djtechtools.com/?p=52977#comment-302892 […] modify your successful triads every so often. Don’t play the same groups of songs each week – the regulars notice, and you might become boring and […]

]]> https://djtechtools.com/2017/09/04/regulars-notice-avoid-playing-dj-set-every-week/#comment-302752 Sun, 21 Jan 2018 18:05:06 +0000 http://djtechtools.com/?p=52977#comment-302752 […] http://djtechtools.com/2017/09/04/regulars-notice-avoid-playing-dj-set-every-week/ […]

]]> https://djtechtools.com/2017/09/04/regulars-notice-avoid-playing-dj-set-every-week/#comment-302267 Thu, 11 Jan 2018 07:01:33 +0000 http://djtechtools.com/?p=52977#comment-302267 […] modify your successful triads every so often. Don’t play the same groups of songs each week – the regulars notice, and you might become boring and […]

]]> https://djtechtools.com/2017/09/04/regulars-notice-avoid-playing-dj-set-every-week/#comment-297604 Tue, 10 Oct 2017 06:16:00 +0000 http://djtechtools.com/?p=52977#comment-297604 If you do a highly frequent residency (once a week or more) it can be cool to indulge your go to transitions for a while and then “troll” your crowd when they are expecting a certain follow up with a crazy curveball. This kind of stuff and other “flare” methods are essential for playing clubs where a selection of hits are expected.

]]> https://djtechtools.com/2017/09/04/regulars-notice-avoid-playing-dj-set-every-week/#comment-297226 Tue, 03 Oct 2017 18:36:00 +0000 http://djtechtools.com/?p=52977#comment-297226 Totally agree that mixing in key is a part of the problem. Having only so many tracks of a particular compatible key, there’s only so many paths to take. I’ve started breaking free of the key compatibility search and just finding a song I’m feeling strongly about, even if it’s a very different tempo and key.

]]> https://djtechtools.com/2017/09/04/regulars-notice-avoid-playing-dj-set-every-week/#comment-297065 Wed, 27 Sep 2017 19:14:00 +0000 http://djtechtools.com/?p=52977#comment-297065 This article is dead on, especially the part about what you play between the predictable and expected stuff. Also, as other people have mentioned, many club owners/managers expect you to play specific songs or styles and not to play others. I was bored with my hipster gigs a few years ago, so I took a regular residency at a popular queer bar in Akron, Ohio that filled up with college kids after midnight because it had the only dancefloor on that side of town. I alternated weekends with a DJ who had been there for many years and literally played exactly the same songs in the same order every night. I was a breath of fresh air, and all the bar staff was always stoked when it would be my weekend on the decks. I figured out what the regulars expected to hear and had my own fun in between as this article suggests. It was all love until the crusty old owner asked me to stop playing rap one night when I had the floor jam-packed with college kids at 1:30 AM. I finished that night and politely gave the gig up after rocking that club for over a year. I’m sure the same other DJ is still there playing his predictable and repetitive set night after night to this day.

]]> https://djtechtools.com/2017/09/04/regulars-notice-avoid-playing-dj-set-every-week/#comment-296846 Fri, 22 Sep 2017 19:34:00 +0000 http://djtechtools.com/?p=52977#comment-296846 Using OTSAVDJ play out software, one can utilize the comprehensive tagging, beat-match and last-play functionality to suggest fresh playlists daily based on accumulated DJ-entered information. OTS has had this for years (and the software runs for years with no failure). Why have Serato, Traktor etc. not cottoned on to this?

]]> https://djtechtools.com/2017/09/04/regulars-notice-avoid-playing-dj-set-every-week/#comment-296779 Thu, 21 Sep 2017 23:07:00 +0000 http://djtechtools.com/?p=52977#comment-296779 Thanks for the reminder, and advice.

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