Start with the basics. Being a DJ requires you to do a lot more than just play songs.

Learning
to structure a set, mix on the fly, and get a crowd moving all starts with your deck. Later on,
you can invest in bigger speakers, a monitor, a MIDI controller, an audio interface, mics, and
various plug-ins, depending on your ambitions for playing out, but a bare-bones basic DJ
setup needs to include the following:

Two turntables or two CD players (or more, optionally)

2-channel mixer
Headphones
Speakers
Mixing software (optional)

Consider a mixing software package. Serato Scratch or Traktor are great programs that
can read any format of music and select songs through a computer program interface.
Pioneer and Numark also offer various products you may want to eventually look into.

These programs will enable you to access a library of MP3s on your hard drive to
compliment your vinyl and CD selections. More often than not, these programs provide live
looping and scratching capability, delays and reverberations, real-time control and video
and karaoke options.
Ableton is a program that allows you to connect mixing controllers via USB cable and
operates more like the classic DJ in your head does. It's good for beginners and the budget-
conscious.

Be economical. Don't invest in top-dollar equipment right away. Most of your money should
be spent on turntables and a mixer. Forget the other stuff for now. And spend wisely -- buy
your decks used and your mixer new.
If you're serious about being a DJ, odds are you're aware of a few in your area. Hit them up for
advice or for a tutorial on their system! If they're half as passionate as you are, they'll love to
give

Don't forget your home studio. Most DJs record demos, playlists and original music at
home. Make sure the equipment you bring to the club compliments the equipment you use at
home. For example, if you're a hip-hop DJ, you'll probably want to invest in a scratch/battle
mixer at home to simulate a competition environment.

This will be especially useful if you ever plan on producing. We'll get to the value of that in
a bit, but know that it should be an avenue of your career later on down the line.
you a minute of their time, explaining their ways.

Hit up your friends and consult the charts, YouTube channels of record companies and
websites catering especially to DJs such as Beatport. Here's a list of genres to explore:
 House
Trance
Techno
Electro
Glitch
Dark Alternative
Progressive
Breakbeat
Hardstyle
Hardcore
Downtempo
Jungle
Drum and Bass
Dubstep
Hip-Hop

Learn the BPM of the songs you play. The beats per minute (BPM) of a song will
determine how smoothly or easily you can mix it with another song. You can calculate BPM
by counting the beats yourself using a stopwatch, but that's pretty tedious. Some mixers will
have a BPM counter on the board, while most DJ software will calculate the BPM of a track
for you, although this may not be completely accurate 100% of the time, so it's good to have
some sense of the BPMs yourself.

Learn the intros and outros. Most dance songs will have an intro in which the music is
going but the vocals are not at the beginning of the song and a corresponding outro at the
end. Mixing usually means blending one song's intro with the outro of another. Knowing
when an outro starts and an intro begins is critical to live beat mixing.

Become a producer. The next step up from being a DJ is producing your own music. You
can still work with others' tunes, but you're mashing it all up, remixing it, re-editing it and
making it better. DJ Earworm got YouTube famous doing just that.[5] You can rake in the
cash a lot faster when you start producing your own stuff.

And once that happens, you can hit up record labels. Even if you don't end up being a top-
billing artist, you can work with other artists and behind the scenes doing what you love.