beginner to pro group
DJ Courses London

Yes! No prior experience is required to get started. In fact, this is often the best way to start as complete beginners won’t have potentially learnt incorrect habits.

I primarily work with beginner or intermediate DJs as these people stand to benefit the most from lessons and have a lot to learn when starting out. I feel as though a lot of your growth once you pass these levels will come from experience, experimentation, and developing your own sound and style of mixing. While you can receive some guidance for this, it is quite personal and not necessarily something that can be taught, but rather discovered by the individual.

Having your own DJ equipment helps, but is not essential to get started. You can start learning the basic concepts of DJing with online lessons, or get hands-on with the club-standard equipment at Pirate Studios if you don’t have your own yet.

Please note: You will need your own DJ equipment for home lessons as we do not bring our equipment to lessons.

I primarily work with Pioneer DJ controllers, or Pioneer CDJs and DJM mixers at Pirate Studios. However, if you have your own equipment at home, we can work with all the major brands, including Pioneer DJ, Denon DJ, Native Instruments, Numark and Hercules DJ.

I primarily work with Rekordbox. However, we can also work with the other major brands, including Virtual DJ, Traktor and Serato if you’re using one of these.

I specialise in mixing Drum & Bass and generally work with electronic music genres, including House, Techno, Trance, Garage and Dubstep.

While I can still teach the basic concepts of DJing for more commercial genres such as Hip-Hop and Pop, these aren’t genres I regularly work with or mix myself. Depending on your needs, you may wish to find someone else specialising in these genres if they are what you’d like to mix.

* The pirate studios referral code is currently only available to new students who haven’t previously created an account and booked a session at pirate studios.

Each student in the group can use our referral code ALEC256563 to create a pirate account and earn £20 free studio credit after booking and attending their first session. Each student can put this credit towards booking one of the sessions for the course if they like, in which case we can reimburse the cost of the studio hire for any sessions booked. Alternatively, students can use the credit when booking a practice session at the studios for themselves between sessions if they prefer.

You can find a video on how to create an account and book a studio here.