What did I get myself into?

so...DJ gear (i guess...) obtained...we get the stuff home, I unbox it all and clear off the dresser in my bedroom to set it all up...one problem...the stereo system i have isnt going to work....shit.

in the living room, my parents have a stereo system that WILL work....so I convince my parents into doing a swap. done.

now, in my record collection, i only have probably 10 records AT BEST...and theyre either hip hop (UTFO and Whodini) or house (Steve Silk Hurley and Chip E)...and they cant all be mixed together...so I start trying to mix the house records together.

so while I was at the Kristof's teen nights watching the DJ that was there, I would eventually start to ask question about how he did things...one of them was about the Pitch Control, which, as he explained to me, was a way to adjust the speed of the music to match what was being played....+ meant that the music would be playing faster than normal, and - would mean slower, so as soon as I started trying this at home, I already had a very basic understanding on HOW to mix...now, it just comes down to making it happen.

the first few months into it were really a bit frustrating, because, essentially, I was sort of teaching myself how to do everything, so I stopped...for probably a month.

I remember waking up one morning after my "hiatus", sitting up in my bed and looking at my equipment thinking "what did I get myself into? what am I going to do with this stuff?"

then something just came over me after sitting there for a few minutes...like a feeling of rejuvenation and enthusiasm...like a feeling of someone telling me that THIS is what im meant to do with my life....SOMETHING musically....and from that moment on, without any embellishment of the truth, I decided to dedicate the majority of my life to music....its not a hobby for me...its a SEVERE passion.

I started practicing dam near ALL day....EVERY day on mixing only stopping to eat or go to the bathroom.

phone call? take a message, ill call them back...friends come over? cool...hang out in my bedroom and watch me practice.

to this day I STILL practice (more like keeping sharp and brushing the rust off...)

moral of this post?
if you truly love something, dedicate yourself, and dont let anyone or anything stand in the way.

next post, I realize a trick to scratching thanks to my friends GLI mixer.