Being a DJ is easy

[Happygrounder]

I'm not a DJ, but from what I see, all you have to do is make a song on your computer and press play at a concert.

Or do you think it's harder than it looks?

[JoshuaHughes]

I find the "making a song on the computer" part to be pretty hard.

[Gobblemeister]

It is easy

Pretending it's hard is the tricky part

[WiiFittoToreinaa]

Set your mp3 player to shuffle and look busy.

[Xenomit]

At 2/21/14 08:51 PM, Happygrounder wrote: I'm not a DJ, but from what I see, all you have to do is make a song on your computer and press play at a concert.

Or do you think it's harder than it looks?

Make a good song on your computer. If you can make a professional-level quality song, I will agree with you.

I'm saying this because I know you can't. It's not easy, I've tried it before. It's just as hard as making music with physical instruments, if not harder. It's definitely much more technical, you have to know absolutely everything about sound and the digital use of sound.

[Jay]

Real DJ's (Disc Jockeys) use turn-tables and/or MPC Samplers or whatever they're called.

If I paid to see a DJ perform, and it's just a guy hitting play on an iTunes playlist and waving their hands around, then I'd be pissed.

[NuclearInfected]

What about being a radio DJ? All they have to do is play one of the 50 songs the station will let them play, and insert some mindless banter here and there.

[NekoMika]

There's a difference between being a DJ and producer. A DJ typically plays music at parties and such. A producer spends time creating music, playing it live and selling their music to DJs so they can be further enjoyed by more people.

feel free to correct me if I'm wrong musicians...

[Jay]

At 2/22/14 12:04 AM, SCTE3 wrote: There's a difference between being a DJ and producer. A DJ typically plays music at parties and such. A producer spends time creating music, playing it live and selling their music to DJs so they can be further enjoyed by more people.

feel free to correct me if I'm wrong musicians...

I think maybe DJ meant more in the past of what a producer is supposed to be now.

But I still stand by the reasoning that any performer playing a show should be recreating their own music live, not just pressing play on a playlist.

[SuperElroy]

At 2/21/14 09:04 PM, tsukikomi wrote: Set your mp3 player to shuffle and look busy.

Like shuffling a deck of cards?

[Ron-Geno]

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[WiiFittoToreinaa]

At 2/22/14 01:49 AM, SuperElroy wrote:

At 2/21/14 09:04 PM, tsukikomi wrote: Set your mp3 player to shuffle and look busy.

Like shuffling a deck of cards?

Yes exactly.