Traktor might be ridiculously fully featured, but it is also one of the hardest DJ applications to learn. You can, with a reasonable degree of success, walk up to it and start to play. But if you’re what is affectionately know as a noob, then you’re going to spend more time stabbing around trying to get to grips with it, and at the same time miss out on all the goodies just waiting to be uncovered.
Step up the Traktor Tips website. They obviously appreciate the dilemma facing beginners, and have put together a course that will give anyone the grounding they need to wrangle Traktor into shape, as well as introduce people to the fundamentals of DJing. The guys use a Kontrol S4 as their demo unit, but the course is intended to give everyone the Traktor fundamentals.
It’ll set you back $47, and can be ordered directly from the Traktor Tips website.
I do agree that with the right instruction, just about anybody can learn to use a program, learn a new skill, etc. much quicker and produce results. Everyones gotta start somewhere.
However, your friend Chris Cartledge from Oh Drat put up a pic a few weeks ago of a Madlib quote which I wholeheartedly agree with:
“I dont read the whole manual. You read how to start, and that’s it. Basic… It’s what you put into it.”
These courses will surely help people, but I am a firm believer that sometimes, diving head first into a new realm and learning as you go will not only help produce amazing results without a formula when you finally get it, but will astound you that you started with nothing and found your own way.
Just my standpoint, feel free to disagree haha
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I do agree, but that approach is not for everyone. We must be taught the function of something, after which we take those fundamentals and go off on our own path. There is a danger with any “how to” course that it’ll turn out a bunch of clones rather than a diverse spread of styles.
Spot on! With motivation and passion, a good student of any craft knows they must learn the rules inside and out before they can break them creatively.
Thank you for this article Mark – it is much appreciated. Everyone who has taken the course so far have loved it.
I have now made video one of my course accessible to the public – you can now see how the course looks inside! Thanks for your support Mark.