How has DJing help you with your music production?

Quick question for my fellow MPC musicians on how your djing experience, knowledge, and technique has helped you in your music production? For me , I find that in using the right phrases for sample based productions DJing experience helps with cutting and blending parts together. How about you guys and gals?





"Almost every urban dance music style was born out of DJ culture."



The Main Ingredient "Rolling Down a Mountainside"

Djing didnt only help technically, but it also learns to appreciate good music.
It opens the musical mind.

My advice to all you poeple is,,, keep on diggin the crates, but dont only dig for samples, but also dig the music.

Mohammed wrote:Djing didnt only help technically, but it also learns to appreciate good music.
It opens the musical mind.

My advice to all you poeple is,,, keep on diggin the crates, but dont only dig for samples, but also dig the music.

Great Mohammed good advice+ can you add a little bit extra information from your personal experience transferring your djing experience, techniques, or the records you play or listen music`s structure into your music making process using your MPC 4000. For example 8 bar intros, or sub bass kicks in your tunes for the helping dj`s fit your music into their sets. Or including filter sweeps in your music? For everybody

hey guys, I came from playing guitar in bands which helped not only my beats from listening to a drummer but also my song structure stuff from writing songs like that, as in verse chorus bridge, drop a fake chorus no vox, drop the chorus/hook as an intros whateva.

anyway I ended up with a roland juno-106 and a sp-505 dropping stuff in the band then got myself an E-mu XL-7, ended up leaving the band and focused more on My beats.
I have worked backwards and only in the last year got into sampling, skratching and so on. So the DJ question doesnt apply to me, im almost up to skratch and should be able to add 'dj' to the front of my name soon!
hehehehe

So yeah I dont think that really has much to do with yer Q but thats my take on things. My previous experience playing in bands helped me out heaps and when I was able to tell the whole band what to do without opening my mouth and just by pressing buttons I could never stop!!!! I love it
Enjoy.BoyWithpez

Blue Haze wrote:

Mohammed wrote:Djing didnt only help technically, but it also learns to appreciate good music.
It opens the musical mind.

My advice to all you poeple is,,, keep on diggin the crates, but dont only dig for samples, but also dig the music.

Great Mohammed good advice+ can you add a little bit extra information from your personal experience transferring your djing experience, techniques, or the records you play or listen music`s structure into your music making process using your MPC 4000. For example 8 bar intros, or sub bass kicks in your tunes for the helping dj`s fit your music into their sets. Or including filter sweeps in your music? For everybody

Where i come from, djs have to play very versatile. I play all sorts of music, like classic breaks, some techno joints(detroit stuff), soulfull house and hiphop. This way you have listen closely to the arrangements of the songs, to mix the next records in order to avoid overlapping vocals, out of tune chords etc. because of playing like that as a dj, i make my arrangements verry compact. I like to switch in my tracks with the sequence change like kicking in another record. Its like i use the sequence like a crossfader.


Productionwise i had to learn all that shit the hard way, no transfer in learning there for me.

Mohammed wrote:

Blue Haze wrote:

Mohammed wrote:Djing didnt only help technically, but it also learns to appreciate good music.
It opens the musical mind.

My advice to all you poeple is,,, keep on diggin the crates, but dont only dig for samples, but also dig the music.

Great Mohammed good advice+ can you add a little bit extra information from your personal experience transferring your djing experience, techniques, or the records you play or listen music`s structure into your music making process using your MPC 4000. For example 8 bar intros, or sub bass kicks in your tunes for the helping dj`s fit your music into their sets. Or including filter sweeps in your music? For everybody

Where i come from, djs have to play very versatile. I play all sorts of music, like classic breaks, some techno joints(detroit stuff), soulfull house and hiphop. This way you have listen closely to the arrangements of the songs, to mix the next records in order to avoid overlapping vocals, out of tune chords etc. because of playing like that as a dj, i make my arrangements verry compact. I like to switch in my tracks with the sequence change like kicking in another record. Its like i use the sequence like a crossfader.


Productionwise i had to learn all that **** the hard way, no transfer in learning there for me.

Great so what you saying is that your djing helped you structure your MPC programming as far as sequencing goes. And if you think about it all those techno, house, and hip hop tunes that you played and listened to were made by sequencers and samplers of older versions of the MPCs and others like the MPC 4000 you now have yeah!! The music of previous dj`s and dance producers in a sense may have helped you to understand how the structure and feel of the beat, rhythm, and melody should flow. Think like a dj would play it.

Great experience Mohammad