In-Person DJ Courses London

Yes! No prior experience is required to get started with our DJ courses. In fact, this is often the best way to start as complete beginners won’t have potentially learnt incorrect habits.

I primarily work with beginner or intermediate DJs as these people stand to benefit the most from lessons and have a lot to learn when starting out. I feel as though a lot of your growth once you pass these levels will come from experience, experimentation, and developing your own sound and style of mixing. While you can receive some guidance for this, it is quite personal and not necessarily something that can be taught, but rather discovered by the individual.

Having your own DJ equipment helps, but is not essential to get started. You can start learning the basic concepts of DJing with online lessons, or get hands-on with the club-standard equipment at Pirate Studios if you don’t have your own yet.

Please note: You will need your own DJ equipment for home lessons as we do not bring our equipment to lessons.

I primarily work with Pioneer DJ controllers, or Pioneer CDJs and DJM mixers at Pirate Studios. However, if you have your own equipment at home, we can work with all the major brands, including Pioneer DJ, Denon DJ, Native Instruments, Numark and Hercules DJ.

I primarily work with Rekordbox. However, we can also work with the other major brands, including Virtual DJ, Traktor and Serato if you’re using one of these.

I specialise in mixing Drum & Bass and generally work with electronic music genres, including House, Techno, Trance, Garage and Dubstep.

While I can still teach the basic concepts of DJing for more commercial genres such as Hip-Hop and Pop, these aren’t genres I regularly work with or mix myself. Depending on your needs, you may wish to find someone else specialising in these genres if they are what you’d like to mix.

* The pirate studios referral code is currently only available to new students who haven’t previously created an account and booked a session at pirate studios.

Use referral code ‘ALEC256563’ when creating an account at Pirate.com to receive £20 of free studio credit. You’ll receive the credit in your account after booking and attending your first session.

Students must create an account and book the studio themselves to use the referral code.

You can find a video on how to create an account and book a studio here.

You’re free to purchase lessons with whichever tutor you like, based on who you feel aligns with your needs. Feel free to check out each tutor’s profile for more info.

Please note: Our course option is currently only available with Alec. However, all tutors should be able to cover the same or similar areas over multiple lessons.

DJ courses in London can vary in length depending on the provider. We offer 4-week, 8-week and 12-week DJ courses so you can find an option that works for you and best suits your needs.

The sessions in our courses also don't have to necessarily be taken each week. You can book your sessions to fit around your schedule if you're going away, or just want some extra time to practice between sessions.

The cost of DJ courses in London can vary greatly depending on the location and length of the course.

We have 4-week courses starting from £285 for DJ courses at your home, or from £343 for DJ courses at pirate studios. Prices include studio hire for sessions at pirate studio. If choosing to book the studio yourself, the price will be reduced for just the lessons and you'll pay for the studio hire separately.

Our 8-week solo DJ courses start from £684 for 16 hours of studio time, while our 12-week group DJ courses are £698, which includes 36 hours of total learning time.