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The trick
here is to be Yourself, if you haven’t got the skill
to project a warm friendly personality at the
functions where ice breaking is required then being an
entertainer isn’t for you. The trick is to find a
balance, most people would simply hire the gear -
saving around 50% of a D.J’s booking fee and throw a
NOW Cd on - if human input and personality wasn’t
important to them. At some functions, if they pay for
an entertainer and get a human jukebox who doesn’t own
a mic and just sits there playing music then they
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I can’t
stress the “BE YOURSELF”, advice enough, don’t put
on a radio style zany DJ voice - that will sound
false and doesn’t fool anybody. If you are lucky
enough to have a D.J training you, or are a young
person helping an older mentor D.J then DON’T be
tempted to become a clone of him or her. Adopt your
own mic style (not a false voice), use your own tag
lines but don’t rely on the same cliche’s 20 or 30
times a night - this becomes boring and predictable.
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Don’t rely on
“that was”, “This is” introductions all night. At some
functions going out with a Radio Mic and creating banter
with your audience is a great way to break the ice at the
beginning of difficult, non formal functions - and a good
way of enouraging them onto the dancefloor early on. You
can relax the mic work and the frquency of them - once the
dancefloor is filling.
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You're stepping up to sing your heart out...wait a
sec....my heart is already jumping out!
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A
lthough it sounds strange to you, to hear your own
voice over the P.A, in fact it doesn’t sound any
different to the audience than if you were talking
to them in normal conversation.
Of course there are always going to be functions
where you need more mic work than the last, and
other functions where it is going to be little mic
use, but the key is to develop a style and strength
and confidence in your mic working ability and not
to rely on non stop music alone to do the work for
you.
Just be yourself, and talk normally into the
microphone. The thing to work on is to speak
confidentally and clearly and try to pace yourself.
Speaking too fast will make what you are saying
sound garbled, speaking too slow will make you sound
like you are addressing a bunch of village idiots .
Pretty soon, with a little time and practice you’ll
develop your own individual skill and style and that
is the most important aspect, don’t try to copy
anybody else or put on a different voice, it will
sound false and make learning and maintaining the
technique a lot more difficult |
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If being a comedian is not you, then avoid the jokes unless you are good at this sort of thing , forced comedy can sound false and you may find yourself laughing alone, after all the Client has booked a Mobile Disco and not a stand up comedian!. One of the best pieces of advice I was given my the D.J who trained me, was to “Stick at doing what you are good at and have been booked for, and if in any doubt then leave it out”.
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