Vinyl DJ Course

• Introduction to equipment

• connecting equipment

• Making custom slip mats

• Cueing records

• Marking records

• Chop Mixing

• Syncing two records

• Beat Matching

• Extended Breaks

• The basic scratch

• Tears

• Quarter note

• Eighth note

• Sixteenth note

• A mixer technique

• Combine both hands

• Stab

• Back Stab

• Continues eighth note

• Whole and half note

• Drags & Transforms

• Watch Videos of world's best DJ championships

What is Vinyl Djing?

Vinyl Djing is the use of gramophone records such as LPs, 45s, and 16s and turntables as a means to mix tracks and DJ. The term vinyl comes from the fact that such records are made from polyvinly chloride (PVC).

Course Specifics:

This is an advanced course to enable a student to play and master turntables. This being an advanced course is aimed at students who had their brush with Djing or have some previous knowledge of music or the industry. The main objective of this course is to bring out the arist in our students who were until now trapped in a mindset where new experiments and sounds were a taboo.

Excel DJ Academy

Excel is Kolkata's first dedicated DJ & Music Production Academy which provides courses, such as CD Djing, Remixing & Music Production.

Excel was formed in January 2008 by a young, dynamic and upcoming music enthusiast with a flair for entrepreneurship, DJ Tejash.

Excel is a professionally run, fun and informal place to come to learn about any aspect of Djing & Music.

Everyday, with a new pub, discotheque, radio channel mushrooming, the Djs have a stable and secure career. Hundreds of movies released annually in India, and every Bollywood movie has songs and their remix versions. As Bollywood is becoming increasingly popular all over the world, the demands of Indian Djs & Music Producers have been growing worldwide.