Name: Read the Room: DJing, Mixing & Moving a Dancefloor
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Learn how to DJ from the ground up: choosing tracks, reading a room, mixing smoothly, and building the energy of a set. No experience required—we’ll go from “what do all these knobs do?” to playing a short live set.

This is a hands-on introduction to DJing for people who love music but have never quite figured out what DJs are actually doing up there.

We’ll learn the mechanics—decks, cueing, phrasing, EQ, transitions, beatmatching—but the course is really about something bigger: how to tell a story with music and move a group of people through it.

Over four sessions, we’ll listen closely to great transitions, pull apart the structure of tracks, practice mixing, experiment with different ways of moving between songs, and learn how DJs think about momentum, tension, surprise, and release.

By the end, everyone will prepare and play a short DJ set.

No previous DJ experience required.

Bring:

A laptop
Headphones
10–20 songs you genuinely love
A DJ controller if you have one, but you don't need to own one to participate

We’ll primarily teach transferable DJ concepts rather than lock ourselves into one piece of software. Rekordbox, Serato, Traktor, VirtualDJ, etc. are all welcome.

Instructor

Kris M.

I’m Kris. I’ve spent a lot of my life around music, dance floors, karaoke microphones, and people making things together. I love the strange combination of technical craft, taste, psychology, and improvisation that makes DJing work.

I’m especially interested in the part that comes after learning which buttons to press: how do you know what to play next? Why does one transition light up a room while another kills it? And how do you develop a sound that actually feels like yours?

This course is my excuse to explore those questions together while helping a few more people become dangerous around a pair of decks.