Best way: find a mentor, someone who already knows how to DJ and hopefully has worked as a DJ professionally. What would take you weeks to figure out yourself o

Best way: find a mentor, someone who already knows how to DJ and hopefully has worked as a DJ professionally. What would take you weeks to figure out yourself or from "tutorials", you will learn in mere hours. If you don't have any DJ friends, try to make some. I only got to really understand the process when I had someone show it to me. Mixing itself is actually easy and straightforward, but somehow hard to explain in text/video form. If you can't do the above, try these resources: Advanced Vinyl Handling (oldschool but very comprehensive article series): http://music.hyperreal.org/dj/AVH/Basics.html http://music.hyperreal.org/dj/AVH/Basics.html Decent videos on Youtube from Ellaskins: https://www.youtube.com/user/ellaskins/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/ellaskins/videos Ideally, get your hands on some good quality turntables/CDJs to really get the feel. Don't waste your time with poor or unsuitable equipment like belt-drive turntables, it will only hinder your progress. A pair of Pioneer CDJs and/or Technics 1200s will do you well. If you just want DJ with software and auto-sync, you don't need to learn much beyond pressing play on deck A, pressing play on deck B, cutting bass on deck B, crossfading to deck B, returning bass on deck B, rinse, repeat.