beginner to pro group
DJ Courses London

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

We 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.

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 so you can practice between sessions, but it’s not essential to get started.

The decks and speakers are already at the studio and we’ll have everything else you need for the sessions at Pirate studios, including headphones and music, so you don’t need to bring anything if you don’t have any gear yet.

Feel free to bring headphones if you’ve got them, and a USB with tunes if you’d like to practice with your own music in the sessions.

We 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.

We 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.

We work with all electronic music genres including Drum & Bass, Jungle, Breakbeat, House, Techno, Trance, Garage and Dubstep.

While we can still teach the basic concepts of DJing for more commercial genres such as Hip-Hop and Pop, these aren’t genres we regularly work with or mix often ourselves. Depending on your needs, you may wish to find a DJ tutor specialising in these genres if they’re what you’d like to mix.

Due to the discounted price, our group courses require 3 students to be enrolled to cover costs. As a result, there may be a wait time to start the course, until 3 students are enrolled. Sessions will commence once we have 3 students enrolled in each course.

If you'd like to start straight away, we recommend getting in touch to check the current number of students enrolled in our next group course, or alternatively, check out our solo beginner to pro DJ course. The solo version of the course will follow a similar structure with the same goal outcomes, just with less total learning time than the group course, as all session time will be devoted to just one student.

For our 12-week group course, it’s ideal to stick to a weekly schedule at the same time so it works for everyone, but this is of course flexible if things pop up.

Each session will be scheduled to best suit the group, which may not necessarily be the same time and day on a weekly basis.

Our 12-week group DJ course is currently only available with Ashley, while the 4-week and 8-week course options are available with both Alec and Ashley.

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.

Students must create an account and book the studio themselves to use the referral code.

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