Hello,

I'm very new to the DJ world. I have read the books
"Beyond Beatmatching" from Mixed in the Key
"Rock The Dancefloor 2nd", Phil Morse

I found sentences like
- [Harmonic mixing] It sounds like magic
- Mixing harmonically actually makes perfect sense
- those with musical sense found that certain mixes sounded poor no matter how tightly tracks were beatmatched
- [Camelot] Improvement of the original 17-th century circle of fifths
- This concept has changed the industry, it makes their mixes incredibly musical
- House music with key change differs radically.
- when the songs coincidentally were in the same key or in harmony ... I guess they blended so well that it was hard to tell them apart. It puzzled me why this happened now and again.
- We either asked a musical friend to help us...
- [David Guetta] his music contains harmonies that trigger a real emotional connection with his listeners
- creating a mashup that fits together well is like a scientist making a breakthrough
- A lot of DJs are completely tone deaf
- The main thing, as we stress throughout this book, is to be musical
- Grasso taught himself how to read records. "If you look at a [vinyl] album carefully," he explained, "you can see which parts of it are vocal and which parts are musical, so you've already got a head start. The dark black grooves are instrumental sections and the lighter black is the vocal."
(Now it is waveforms, maybe soon spectrograms, even a score ?)
- Dance music is almost always 32-beat phrases

- producing music needn't be hard and doesn't necessarily need musical training or the ability to play an instrument
- you need the help of professionals, such as "real" musicians

I'm personally not very literate in music theory, all this encourages me to learn better.

What do you think ?