Yes, it helps to know about musical structure before embarking on mixing - how otherwise can one distinguish beats, bars and sections? - wut? you actually just need to be able to count. Although I haven't produced for a long time, I do gladly DJ. My original training is classical (piano, various recorders) and some jazz (saxophone, piano), plus some serious muso record listening, which means sitting around with your mates and picking your favourite music apart into its minute details, such as structures, sound textures and vocals/solos (never mind where the samples come from....) And that helps enormously in developing one's DJ skills, from researching and shopping, to programming and the technical aspects of mixing. Hillegonda. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
