How to DJ Part 1: Choosing Your DJ Music Style

One of the first steps in learning how to DJ is choosing your main music style. Most DJs will already have a definite idea of what music they will play as a high percentage of DJs started off their club life as one of the crowd, being a clubber. However, not everyone starts in this way, so before you learn how to DJ, settle on your main style.

To be a top DJ and love your DJing we highly recommend not comprising your music taste. Play music which inspires you, the music you feel would inspire clubbers and make them dance when they hear you DJ. If a DJ plays music they don’t love, their performance will not be half as good when they DJ in a club, not inspiring the clubbers around them, the people paying to hear them perform.

Once you’ve settled on your music style you’re ready to move on to the next stage of how to DJ.

Words by Kenny Palmer of UK-DJs DJ agency.