Exciting news!!! We have just scheduled in 2 great new, specialist group courses at the Wembley branch of the Academy.
These shorter, focused and more affordable courses are designed to be the perfect intro to some of the foundational aspects of DJ’ing. If you’re already playing out, or you’re looking to have more fun with your hobby, these courses are a brilliant way to up your game or your enjoyment of the culture of DJ’ing.
Our all vinyl course,
You will learn…
– How to use your ears to mix.
– Tempo matching techniques from beginners to advanced
– Riding the pitch and the platter
– Cue’ing techniques
– Using headphones to mix
– Deep diving on phrasing and phrase mixing without the visuals or analysed BPM
– How to use a turntable and handle records
– How to source records and look after them
– using a DVS system along with traditional vinyl
And our Scratching course
You will learn…
– The basics of setting up your equipment to start scratching
– learn to scratch on vinyl, controllers and CDJ’s.
– Using the cross fader to scratch and learning how to sync your hands together
– Core scratch techniques like the Baby, Transform, Drags, chirps and release scratches.
– Incorporating scratching into your sets and the best sounds to use
– Beginners beat Juggling
– Creative mixing using scratch techniques.
– How to develop an effective practice regime to develop your speed and flow.
Both course, there will be an industry professional guest tutor who will come to talk to you about their experience. Plus you will also get a discount code for our retail partner Westend DJ and a certificate of completion. You will also get the chance to play on one of our radio shows at BMC, Aaja or G-SHOCK Radio.
Both these course will be taught by Terry, the head tutor at On The Rise and a vinyl and scratch DJ for over 30 years.
The courses are 10 hours. 2 hours a week for 5 weeks.
Cost: £225.
There will be no more than 6 students on each course.
Dates and Times: These course will take place on Monday and Tuesday evenings starting in June.
Vinyl Group Course Dates: 6.30-8.30 pm
June: 16th, 23rd, 30th
July: 14th, 21st
Scratching Group Course: 6.30-8.30 pm
June: 17th, 24th,
July: 1st, 15th, 22nd
Contact us HERE for more info and check out the location of the Wembley Branch.