Burnley Express reporter Sue Plunkett tries out DJ'ing

Burnley Express

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.

03:08You're in.

03:13Yeah.

03:14All the way up here.

03:14Let's go.

03:14I'm in.

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