Spin Academy

Spin Academy

Spin Academy allows users to learn from the world’s best DJ’s in the comfort of your own home. Whether you’ve never used a turntable, or are just looking to brush up your skills, we’ve got you covered.
Spin Academy has a very wide array of lessons on DJ’ing producing music and lessons are constantly being added; therefore this list is constantly growing. Listed below is some of our lesson categories.

• What DJ Gear to Buy
  • Novation Dicers
  • Pioneers DDJ-S1 Review
  • Beginner Setup Reviews
  • Pioneer DDJ-ERGO Review
  • Vestax VCI-400 Review
  • Vestax VCI-300 Review
  • Numark NS-7 Review
  • Traktor S4 Review
  • Rane TTM-57 Review
  • DJ Software Options
• Software Basics and Tricks
  • Getting to Know Your Serato Itch Interface
  • Getting to Know Your Traktor Interface
  • Beatmatching Tricks in Serato
  • Beatmatching Tricks in Traktor
  • Phrasing Tricks in Serato and Traktor
• Cueing
• Beatmatching
• Understanding Volume and Gain
• 4 Essential Transitions
  • Cutting
  • Fading
  • Spin Backs
  • Rewinds
• Preparing Your DJ Set
• Beatmatching Tricks in Serato
• Beatmatching Tricks in Traktor
• Looping
• Mixing in Key with Mixed in Key in Key
• Scratching
  • Introduction to Scratching
  • Beat Juggling
  • Drum Scratching
  • Two Click Orbit
  • Advanced Tricks for Scratching
  • The Chirp Scratch
  • The Crab Scratch
  • Practicing Scratching
  • Baby Scratch
  • Stab Scratch
  • Transform Scratch
• DJ Tricks
  • How to Loop a Vocal at the End of a Track
  • How to Use a Fader Over a Sweeper
  • How to Mix from the Buildup of a Song
  • How to Use an Acapella on Top of an Instrumental
  • How to Use an Acapella to Transition in BPM’s
  • How to Mix on the Half Time
  • How to Switch Beats Under an Acapella
• Using Effects
  • High pass filter
  • Low pass filter
  • Delay effect
  • Flanger
• How to Make a Professional Demo Mix
• Opening vs. Headliner vs Closing DJ’s
• Setting Up for your DJ Gig
• How to Get Gigs
• Crazy things DJ’s do
• How to Transition from a high BPM to a Low BPM
• How to Live Remix a Track
• Introduction to the Ableton Live Interface
• DJ’ing in Ableton
• How to Make a House Track in Ableton
• How to make a Dubstep Track in Ableton
• How to make a Electro house Track in Ableton