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6 Essentials for Wedding DJing

In my last issue, I discussed why you might want to be a wedding DJ. But in order to do your job well, you need to have some important qualities.

Luckily, this is all you already have or could get with a little effort (or money). Being aware of what is expected of you will make it easier for you to fill in the gaps relatively easily and do the job more confidently. nine0023

1. Wide musical knowledge

Of course you like your EDM. You love perfect mixing, sampling, juggling beats and creating new sounds from old songs. But to be a good wedding DJ, you need to understand and appreciate (if not love) all genres of music. Yes, that sadly includes the dreaded "new country", pop's silliest hits, mind-boggling line dances and love ballads so sugary they could put you in a diabetic coma. nine0023

You also need to know some classical pieces, especially those related to weddings (Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Pachelbel's Canon, and various wedding precessions/falls). who won't dance later.

Lucky for you, all of this material is easy to find on the internet - with a little homework and a few greatest hits compilations, you can be a DJ of any taste. nine0023

2. Cute character

Starting from the first meeting with the future bride and groom, you should be sensitive and attentive to their wishes, but at the same time take responsibility. The couple will lay out their ideal musical mix and structure of the event. Unfortunately, their ideas are sometimes unrealistic and unreasonable ("We only want heavy metal all night" or "No Macarena whoever asks for it").

You must be cute, energetic and fun, but not stupid (like the bad tuxedo guy mentioned earlier). It's a delicate balance that comes with practice. If your personality comes off as blasé or disinterested, why should they even hire you instead of just plugging an iPod into an existing sound system? You need to add the right amount of enthusiasm and energy, not just play the right tunes. nine0023

3. Organizational skills

Weddings are not easy. Most of them include the introduction of the couple and the wedding party (by you), but also include prayers, toasts, special requests, traditional rituals (garter, apron dance) and other things you need to know how to choreograph and narrate.

Often the bride and groom lose track of time and you need to remind them (or the supplier/event planner) to stay on track. You are the manager of the planned activities, not just the music, so you need to focus on both and not get too caught up in worrying about your next track. nine0023

4. Foolproof Gearbox with Backup

This is a lesson you only need to learn once - always have a backup plan for any possible emergency.

When a mobile DJ company sent me to a fancy wedding performance with bad cables, I found that the sound coming out of the speakers was the equivalent of an old transistorized AM radio. I almost fled the scene. There is nothing more painful than realizing that you - and only you - are responsible for making someone's wedding a colossal failure. nine0023

Amazingly, I managed to get people dancing until the emergency guy showed up with new cables (thanks to a very holy and understanding couple and their guests), but I'll never DJ a wedding again without a full backup plan. It only takes one time. Believe me.

Luckily, most emergencies aren't hard to handle (see Pro DJ Secrets When Everything Goes Dead...). An iPod or iPad can keep the party going until you fix your computer, or even replace it in the worst case, when your laptop is a smoldering wreck. nine0023

5. The ability to sell yourself

Wedding performances are the key to future wedding performances. You will most likely be approached by other couples who are looking for a fantastic DJ like you for their upcoming wedding. Or someone is planning a private or corporate party. Sometimes the event organizer at the venue is looking for a quality and reliable DJ that they can recommend (this is how I got a regular gig).

You'll be asked to show your business card, so make sure you always have a lot of them. And here's the fun part - you've already auditioned, played an amazing four-hour set, and got everyone on the dance floor, so the selling part is over. Handing over the card usually closes the deal. This is the easiest sales job in the world. nine0023

6. Adaptability

Every wedding has its challenges. A drunk guy who keeps demanding a "wonderful night" so he and his wife can slow dance despite the fact that you have a seriously packed dance floor. An older woman complains about the volume being too loud, and younger people ask you to turn it up, and the acoustics of the room turn your sound into a booming mess.

Because wedding venues and wedding guests are varied and unpredictable, you need to be flexible and adaptable to make decisions quickly.

And no matter what happens, you should always smile. You have to look like you're having fun, even if the event gets chaotic when the best man breaks his arm trying to break dance and the bride is hysterical because someone spilled red wine on her dress. A good DJ can save a wedding by lifting the mood and by focusing the audience's attention on the main goal: entertainment. nine0023

And when Donna Summer says the final "Hey, hey, yes!" "Last Dance" and everyone starts cheering for you, it's a damn good feeling. You've had one of the brightest nights of their lives - maybe the biggest - and have been a resounding success.

• Michael M. Hughes - DJ, writer and performer. He is currently a DJ at Baltimore Get Down and has played over a hundred weddings and numerous private and corporate events. He summarizes his hard-earned knowledge in an upcoming digital wedding DJ guide, available on the Digital DJ Tips website. nine0023

Have you seen wedding DJs who are good (or bad) at showing the above skills? Would you consider DJing at weddings - and if not, why not? Please share your thoughts in the comments.

A Simple Guide to 10 Traditional Ballroom Dances

If you're interested in ballroom dancing but don't know where to start, there's only one place to start: Beginner Dance Lessons at Fred Astaire Dance Studios. Learning the most widely known partner dances can make you the star of any social event and bring some fun and culture into your life at the same time. When you sign up for ballroom dancing classes, the information in this post can help you learn more about the different types of ballroom dancing. When someone refers to the "International Ballroom" dance style, for example, they are talking about 10 different dances. Below you will find a simple explanation of the ten most popular ballroom dance styles:

Waltz

This is the dance most often thought of when someone mentions ballroom dancing. That's 28 beats per minute in 3/4 of the time, and it can be quite romantic.

Tango

Ballroom tango is different from Argentine tango. It has a time signature of 2/4 and it is 32 beats per minute. While ballroom tango can certainly be romantic, the best way to describe this popular dance is "sensual."

Foxtrot

This is an all American jazz dance set that can be fast or slow depending on the band.

Quickstep

This dance is inspired by the foxtrot but has a much faster tempo, hence the name.

Viennese Waltz

As soon as the 3/4 music starts, the ballroom studio will light up with the fast and passionate flow of this "old school" waltz.

International Latin Samba

A cheerful dance that is used in competitions, but as the national dance of Brazil, it is solo.

Cha-cha

This flirtatious dance can be seen as a slow mamba. A lot of hip movement will be involved.

Rumba

Rumba is considered by many to be the most passionate and romantic dance on this list. This is incredibly difficult and involves many different hip movements.

Jive

A spicy swing dance to big band music in which the man leads and the women encourage the men to invite them to dance.

Paso Doble

A man dances like a bull and a woman dances like a bullfighter.

If you would like to take an adult ballroom dance class, consider these options. Whatever grabs your attention or tickles your imagination, why not give it a try?

The philosophy of Fred Astaire Dance Studios is simple and clear: ballroom dancing should always be fun! We work with students of all ages and abilities to help them realize their ballroom dancing goals in a warm, friendly and 100% non-judgmental environment. nine0023

Ballroom dancing training will give you more confidence on the dance floor, a great workout and a much better connection with your body!

Dance quotes, Dance sayings, Quotes for dancers

Children: they dance before they know there is anything but music. ~ William Stafford

How can we tell a dancer from a dance? ~ William Butler Yeats

There is a bit of madness in dancing that is of great benefit to everyone. ~ Edwin Denby

Please send me your last pair of dance-worn shoes, as you mentioned in your letter, so I can have something to hold on to.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I could only believe in a God who could dance. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), On Reading and Writing, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody , translated from the German by Alexander Tille, 1896

Never trust a spiritual leader who cannot dance. ~ Mister. Miyagi The Next Karate Kid , 1994

We are fools whether we dance or not, so we can dance just as well. ~ Japanese proverb

Let's dance! may joy be boundless;
Stay awake until the morning when Youth and Pleasure meet.
Chase the glowing clock with flying feet.
~ George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. ~ Dave Barry

Dancing is like dreaming with your feet! ~ Constanze

The true expression of a people is its dance and its music. Bodies never lie. ~ Agnes de Mille

Dancing turns to face the sky, no matter which direction you turn. ~ Terri Guillemets

Dancers are messengers of the gods. ~ Martha Graham

Dancing is a great workout for girls, it's the first way to learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it. ~ Christopher Morley, Kitty Foyle

You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart. ~ Author unknown

Dancing: a vertical expression of horizontal desire legalized by music. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Dance in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of any noble education; dance with your feet, with ideas, with words, and do I need to add that one must also be able to dance with a pen? ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the material of which it is made. ~ Ted Schon, Time July 25, 1955

Dancers are instruments, like a piano played by a choreographer. ~ George Balanchine

There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. ~ Vicki Baum

To dance is to be beside yourself. Bigger, prettier, more powerful. ~ Agnes DeMille

Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels. ~ Faith Whittlesey

Dancing with the feet is one thing, dancing with the heart is another. ~ Author Unknown

Dance until the stars come down from the rafters.
Dance, dance, dance until you fall.
~W.H. Auden

There is a reverence in the dancer for such forgotten things as the wonder of small beautiful bones and their subtle strength. ~ Martha Graham

It takes an athlete to dance, and an artist to be a dancer. ~ Shanna LaFleur

I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance. ~ George Balanchine

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music hides. ~ Charles Baudelaire

Dance first. Think later. This is the natural order. ~ Samuel Beckett

Suppressing the urge to dance is bad for your health - it spoils your spirit and your hips. ~ Terry Guillemets

I am a dancer. I believe that we learn by doing. Whether it means learning to dance by dancing, or learning to live by practicing life... In each of them, it is the performance of a certain set of actions, physical or intellectual, from which arises a form of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of the spirit. In some area man becomes an athlete of God. ~ Martha Graham, c.1953

Let's dance in the sun, with wild flowers in our hair... ~ Susan Polis Schutz

Dancing is the poetry of the foot. ~ John Dryden

Dancing is the most sublime, most touching and beautiful of the arts, because it is not just a translation or an abstraction from life; it is life itself. ~ Havelock Ellis

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here, we must dance. ~ Author Unknown

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.~ Martha Graham

Dancing moves to the music without stepping on anyone's foot, much like life. ~ Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery. ~ Martha Graham

Dancing left many girls without servants, and I can say that this is a storehouse and nursery of bastards. ~ John Northbrook

Shake it until the moon becomes the sun. ~ Vada Nobles, Carl Sturken, Evan Rogers & Alisha Brooks, "Pon de Replay" by Rihanna ♫

Dance does not reconcile body and soul, because for Bakhtin and the spiritual tradition he represents, body and soul are on the same level. the same plane in terms of cost and in any case never conflicted. ~ Susan M. Felch and Paul J. Contino, Bakhtin and Religion: A Sense of Faith , 2001

Hard times call for wild dancing. ~ Alice Walker

The movement never lies. It is a barometer showing the state of the weather in the soul to anyone who can read it. ~ Martha Graham

Dance is the song of the body. Either joy or pain. ~ Martha Graham

Dance is a poem, every movement of which is a word. ~ Mata Hari

We must dance with delight to stay alive... and part of the living embodied cosmos. ~D.H. Lawrence

Dancing is the world's favorite metaphor. ~ Kristy Nilsson

Those who were seen dancing were considered crazy by those who couldn't hear the music. ~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I don't know what spirit a philosopher could be more than a good dancer. Because dance is his ideal. ~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,
Make your soul dance on a jig to the sky.
~ Alexander Pope, Moral Essays

She should have danced - she just had to! ... The music seemed to move in her body, move through her. She jumped high, spread her arms and oh, how she smiled! Dancing, Clara forgot about her grief. ~ Amy Ehrlich, The Girl Who Wanted to Dance , 2009

Do you think it's hard for people with dyslexia to dance to "Y.M.C.A."? ~ Dave Sokolovsky

If life is good, don't just sit there - dance! If life isn't so good, dance more.~ Terri Guillemets

Music begins to atrophy when it gets too far away from dance. ~ Ezra Pound

I see how dance is used as a connection between body and soul to express what is too deep to find words. ~ Ruth St. Denis

Talk about dancing? Don't talk about dancing. Dance is to dance. ~ Peter St. James

Life is a dance of balance.
Life is a creative fall.
Half life spent recuperating.
Life learns to dance with a partner -
and learns to dance without a partner,
and lets go enough to dance in the crowd.
Life is a freestyle attachment.
Life is whirling and bow.
Life is the best dance you will ever dance.
and the only chance you have, so dance!
~ Terri Guillemets, "Sessile", 1989

I, , would like to dance. Not professional, but just like everyone else. ~ Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot , 1997

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

Poetry is prose like dance is walking.~ John Wayne

To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak. ~ Hopi Indian proverb

Three little merry piggy wigs,
Three merry jiggy jiggy jigs danced ...
~ Margaret Sidney, The Three Little Pigs, 1882

Those who love to dance too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their heads. ~ Terence

Dance is a delicate balance between perfection and beauty. ~ Author Unknown

Socrates learned to dance when he was seventy because he felt that a significant part of himself had been forgotten. ~ Source Unknown

Dance to be beautiful forever. ~ Terry Guillemets, Glory Moves, 2018, Blackout Poems by Daniel Steele, Fairy Tale , 2017, p. 93

Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain. ~ Author Unknown

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, they move at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ~ William James

Problems of maintaining momentum in a learning organization, Peter M. Senge

These calls are not imposed from outside; they are the product of assumptions and practices that people take for granted, an integral, natural part of the processes of change. And they can stop innovation if managers at all levels do not learn to anticipate it and recognize the hidden benefits in every problem and the potential to drive further growth. initiatives is a valuable opportunity to rethink how people organize their workplaces. nine0023

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