My advice if you want to be a DJ is to skip learning how to mix with turntables and go straight to ableton live. It took me years to get good at beatmatching, and played gigs in front of thousands of people, but you can be perfect with a few hours spent learning ableton live, with as many effects and filters as you could possibly want. I switched to ableton basically the second I found out about it and never went back.
It’s really hard to do what Jeff mills is doing with turntables. Like years and years of many hours a day practice.
You can recreate it in ableton live with absolutely no practice at all and then do more stuff on top of it.
Of course ableton doesn’t tell you the right moments to mix or the right songs or the right way to filter and so on, so there is still a lot of artistry and skill, but just in terms of dexterity, it’s a lot easier.
It’s really hard to do what Jeff mills is doing with turntables. Like years and years of many hours a day practice.
You can recreate it in ableton live with absolutely no practice at all and then do more stuff on top of it.
Of course ableton doesn’t tell you the right moments to mix or the right songs or the right way to filter and so on, so there is still a lot of artistry and skill, but just in terms of dexterity, it’s a lot easier.