Career entry
- Educational qualifications are not important for becoming a DJ. But you may complete Class 11-12 just to give yourself enough time to listen to and appreciate music. It could be a good idea if you learn to play an instrument such as synthesizer, organ, guitar, etc. but it is not mandatory. Playing synthesizer could be very useful but in any case, you can learn to become a DJ by doing online courses only. What is critical is your love for music, different genres of music and your musical intelligence. You must be able to understand a lot about music and various technologies which are used to produce music these days, mostly digital technologies. You can just buy a basic turntable, a mixer and a controller to begin. Even all these mixers and controllers can be done online as well.
- No degree is required for becoming a disc jockey. But if you want to, after your class 11-12, you can do an undergraduate or bachelor’s degree or diploma in Performing Arts with specialization in Music / Music Technology / Music performance or a similar field.
Introduction
A disc jockey is a person who mixes different sources of recorded music for a live audience in a nightclub or dance club. Disc jockeys are also called DJs. DJs typically perform for a live audience in a nightclub or dance club or a TV, radio broadcast audience. DJs also create mixes, remixes, and tracks that are recorded for later sale and distribution. In hip hop music, DJs may create beats, using percussion breaks, basslines and other musical content sampled from pre-existing records. Disc jockeys play remixed versions of popular songs in the music industry.
What will you do daily?
- This is one of the best part of being a DJ. Your work life is going to be very exciting and unpredictable. One night you may be playing at a wedding, and the next you may have a crowd of youngsters grooving to your beats at a beach party.
- On some days you could be working until the sun comes up, and on others, you would be working at home mixing some new tunes.
- Even if you have been employed by a club or a venue to work for them full-time, it will still be an adventure. There will be different kinds of people you will see every day and, and therefore there will be different hearts for you to win every day.
Skills required
- Artistic - You should have interests for Artistic Occupations. Artistic occupations mostly involve working with creative ideas, art, and designs. These occupations involve abstract or conceptual thinking, creative self-expression and often do not follow any set processes or rules for getting things done.
- Enterprising - You should have interests for Enterprising Occupations. Enterprising occupations involve taking initiatives, initiating actions, and planning to achieve goals, often business goals. These involve gathering resources and leading people to get things done. These require decision making, risk-taking, and action orientation.
- Originality - The ability to come up with unusual or innovative ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, understanding the points being made by others, etc.
- Fluency of Ideas - The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Hearing Sensitivity - The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
- Musical Intelligence - The ability to understand sound variations, rhythms, melody, tones, and music.
Where will you work?
- To become a DJ, you have to begin playing for small audiences, say, at your school, college, at a relative’s place, etc. With experience, you may get calls to play for various occasions such as private parties, marriages, etc.
- After you have learned the tricks of the trade and acquired critical DJ equipment, you will get calls to play for larger audiences and also in clubs, disks, night clubs, hotels, private parties of wealthy individuals, etc.
- With more experience, you may get contracts from night clubs, hotels, disks, etc. as a Resident DJ. You may also get a contractual job offer from a television channel or a radio channel.
- You could also take part in events like DJ Hunt by a television or radio channel and attempt to win. This could be a sure shot way to become a DJ without much prior experience. You got to be super talented for this, somebody like who eats, drinks and sleeps music.
Positions
- Ensure that the program is running smoothly by interacting live to the audience.
- Create your own tracks for pleasing the crowd by mixing or remixing the songs.
- Need to consider the audience’s preferences while selecting the songs or track to be played.
- Use electronic equipment for playing two or more sources of recorded music simultaneously by mixing and playing tracks together.
- Create beats by using breaks and bass line from pre-existing records.
- Need to understand DJ equipment, music technologies, and sound systems and the ways to operate them.
Salary
- At the beginning of your career, you may not make anything but just perform for gaining experience.
- Once you make a little bit of name among your known friends, contacts, relatives’ circles, you may expect to earn a little bit of money, such as Rs. 2,000 – 5,000 per gig or performance.
- Once you are known to a larger number of people, you may make about Rs. 5,000 – 10,000 or more per gig.
- As a resident DJ in a club, night club, hotel or disk, you may get about Rs. 5,000-12,000 per night, making a cool Rs. 40,000 – 100,000 or more per month, depending upon your reputation.
- Once your reputation is built in your city, over a region or over the country and especially if event organizers know you well, you may get Rs. 10,000 – 50,000 or even more per gig. If you are really famous, you can make anything between Rs. 2,00,000 – 8,00,000 or even more per gig.
- In television and radio channels, you are not paid so great in the beginning, but you can surely take home anything between Rs. 30,000 – 50,000 or more per month. Senior and reputed DJs and RJs are paid much more. Some make more than Rs. 10 lac or even a month.
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