Read the room

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It’s a fairly obvious tip, but one that can get easily overlooked for DJs who may have got started in a time where pandemic closures

forced many DJ sets into the online realm: learn to read a dancefloor. Whether you’re playing a huge club or a small bar, keep an eye on your audience and see how they’re responding. Whether it’s headnodding

or full-on raving, are people engaging with what you’re playing? If not, it could be the right time for you to change the energy by, for example, increasing the BPM or switching up the style of music.