Burnley Express reporter Sue Plunkett stepped behind the decks to try her hand at DJ’ing for the first time, ticking off the first entry in her feature series, Things I Never Thought I’d Do at 60
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00:00Hi everyone, so I turned 60 in December and decided to do a series of features called
00:05Things I Never Thought I'd Do When I'm 60.
00:08And I'm here today at Corder Recordings with Michael, the owner, and he's going to show me how to be a DJ.
00:17Fingers crossed.
00:19Right, so here we go then.
00:20So first of all, this is your track, what we're going to be playing first.
00:24And then the next incoming track is going to be on this channel.
00:26And all I want you to do is sort of go, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four.
00:34Just for the minute, just do that one.
00:35And then it'll hook up next centre in a minute.
00:37Just do it to the beat.
00:39One, two, three, four.
00:42Yeah, keep counting in your head.
00:43One, two, three, four.
00:44One, two, three, four.
00:46One, two, three, four.
00:48Two, three, four.
00:50So in a minute I'm going to go one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
00:53And on the nine you press the green one.
00:56Yeah?
00:56Mm-hmm.
00:57Sorry, hold on a sec.
00:58One, two, three, four.
01:00One, two, three, four.
01:02Five, six, seven, eight.
01:04Then the green.
01:04Just need to be a bit quicker though.
01:06So we'll do that again.
01:07Try that again then.
01:09Just press the Q.
01:11One, two, three, four.
01:14What I want you to do, as you do it, so you'll be like that, and then swap your finger down.
01:18Right.
01:20Go on.
01:21So when you press the green one, let go of it then.
01:27Right.
01:27Right, so we're getting there nearly.
01:29One, two, three, four.
01:31And that's in then.
01:36So if you press the orange one now.
01:42You're in.
01:43You're in.
01:43She's in.
01:45She's in.
01:47There, you're in there.
01:49One, two, three, four.
01:52Yes!
01:53Now just fade that one up slowly.
01:56Go on.
01:57Bit quicker.
01:57And that's your mix there.
02:05And then once that one's up, bring that one down.
02:08This one?
02:09Yeah.
02:17There you go.
02:18DJ!
02:22But obviously that's the basics, but obviously the more you do it, the better you'll get in
02:27it.
02:27When I count one, two, three, four, go one, two, three, four, then green, so you just keep
02:31doing that.
02:32One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, then get ready to press green whenever you're
02:40ready.
02:42In.
02:43Bang on.
02:43That one.
02:46Bring that one up and that one down.
02:49That one up.
02:57Slam that one back up there, that one.
03:00All the way up.
03:02There.
03:02Mix.
03:04You're in.
03:04I'm in.
03:04That's pretty much it.
03:08That's pretty much it.
03:08That's pretty much it.
03:08You're in.
03:13Yeah.
03:14All the way up here.
03:14Let's go.
03:14I'm in.
03:14I'm in.