Brolic Army DJ School by DJ Rob Swift

  COURSE DESCRIPTION After learning the 10 root moves of Beat Juggling, this course addresses how to combine the 10 Root Movements. Our goal is to help you reach the next level of Beat Juggling, find your unique style, come up with new patterns and create more interesting routines and DJ sets. LEARNING OUTCOMES 4 lectures and 4 hours of content! Information packed practical training learning how to become creative with beat juggling techniques. Best suitable for advanced level users and who are looking to become more expressive and creative in their beat juggling. Have a question? send us an email to and one of our team members, or Rob Swift himself will help you out!

  Beat Juggling involves the right and left hands doing two separate things at the same time. For example, your right hand may be pulling the record back to a specific spot, while your left hand is stopping the record incrementally. This is otherwise known as hand independence. Although it’s virtually impossible to cover every hand technique involved in beat juggling, I will explain a couple of drills that will help you during your training. 1. Invert your movements.Anything you learn from left to right, you must also master from right to left. The goal here is to achieve balance between both your limbs. Doing so will allow you to execute your juggle patterns with the necessary accuracy. Regardless of the direction your hands need to move. 2. Simultaneously tap and rewindWithout sound, learn how to rewind the left turntable with your left hand, while you tap the opposite turntable with your right hand. Once you feel comfortable, reverse roles. As with patting your head and rubbing ...

  This learning pathway will help Advanced DJs navigate our courses and find the best learning pathway to suit their needs. We consider advanced DJs to be those with solid foundational skills in mixing, set building, fundamental scratching. Where to start? We recommend browsing over the Basic Scratching course to ensure that you do cover the scratching bases in terms of skills, technique and undoing any bad habits that self-taught DJs may have encountered. We assume that an advanced DJ is set on mixing by ear, dropping on beat, set arrangement and hand alignment and mechanics. What course should I begin with? 10 Root Moves of Beat Juggling This is our most popular course for intermediate and advanced DJs. This course takes you through all 10 of the root moves in details. This is the most comprehensive beat juggling guide out there. Rob explains how to manipulate drum beats, words, etc. on both left and right turntables simultaneously through the application of the 10 Root Movement...

  This guide is to help individuals who want to sign up, or have just signed up, navigate the website. Welcome! Thank you so much for coming to see the Brolic Army DJ School. We are excited to show you around and help you get started on your journey to becoming a beast on the turntables! Choose a Plan Membership Plans GET STARTED We have three membership options. The first is the monthly subscription, at $49 billed monthly. The second option is to be billed 249 every 6 months. With this option you save $90 per year. The final tier is the Lifetime membership. We recommend this to DJs who want to stay a part of the community for life. Enroll in your first class Congratulations! Now you are truly on your way to becoming a formidable DJ. To start your first class, select the desired course from the courses page and scroll the to bottom and click “Enroll”. This will enroll you in the course and give you access to all of the lesson material. Browse our Merch and Rep the Ar...

Each season of the year we like to pose DJ challenges for our Brolic Army students because what’s the point in teaching someone a skill if you won’t provide opportunities for that student to apply their mastery of it? At Brolic Army DJ School, application is one of our most important tenets and the latest Brolic Army challenge not only test our students’ individual grasp of the DJ concepts they’ve learned, they will also be expected to showcase their newly acquired skills in a team setting. To mark the beginning of Summer training. We issued the BROLIC ARMY SQUAD CHALLENGE! Two teams, The Monty Pythons (Selecta Monty, DJ Tyson and DJ ECC) and The Peaky Jugglers (Chief Rocka challenge champ Captain Co, DJ Circle and DJ Backbeat), worked together as a group to create one cohesive battle set. The winning squad was decided by public fan vote. “It taught me how to be a better teacher and how to explain stuff and assess people.” ~ Selecta Monty “I have learnt so much from this challenge. It...

At midnight tonight, the DJ community celebrates the 20th year anniversary of the documentary SCRATCH. Directed by Doug Pray and released by Palm Pictures on Feb.15, 2002, this powerful documentary continues to stand as a symbol for how a small group of marginalized DJs can effect change by banding together. Twenty years later the ripple effects of what DJs like the X-Ecutioners, Invisibl Skratch Piklz, Beat Junkies, still resonates. Doug Pray does a thorough job of revealing how the authors (Kool Herc, Bambaataa, Grandmaster Flash, GrandWizzard Theodore, Grand Mixer D.St…) of DJing as we know it to be today, passed on techniques such as mixing, scratching and back spinning to the younger generation of DJs (Rob Swift, Roc Raida, Q-Bert, Mix Master Mike, Babu, Shortkut, DJ Shadow…). By building on the practices of their predecessors, these young visionaries furthered DJ culture and bum rushed a music industry that pushed them to the background during the 90s. This may surprise you but a...

  You’re probably asking yourself, why should I learn how to make my own edits when I can censor curse words, trigger loops, etc., on the fly while I perform a DJ set? No matter what type of DJ you are, understanding how to make your own edits has it’s advantages. The most important being the creative freedom to do more while you perform your set live. Not having to engage the reverse effect on your mixer on a curse word while a song is playing makes it so you have one less thing to worry about while DJing. This in turn allows you to channel your awareness to other important aspects of your performance. Additionally, learning how to edit is a great avenue to get you acclimated to the world of production, the natural “next step” in the journey of a DJ. This article will impart 4 tips on how to edit your MP3s on iMovie. That’s right, you don’t need to pay for an editing program like Logic or Audacity to learn. 4 Tips on ways to edit an MP3 using iMovie 1. Cut and Pasting sections of...

  Since launching the Brolic Army platform, I’ve taken more notice of how others learn and teach DJ art. From my observations, imitation seems to be at the center of both ends. Since when did copying become creativity? If Hip Hop’s golden rule is don’t bite, yet we see post after post of DJs regurgitating the works of masters like X-Ecutioners, Invisibl Skratch Piklz and Beat Junkies, how can we bring creativity and imagination back to DJing? Welp, here’s 5 ways I can think of: 1. Stop caring what people think. There are battle routines of mine that have stood the test of time. I can perform joints like my “Funky For You” routine today and 30 years after its creation, I still get a positive reaction. Even in cases where my audience doesn’t know the record. That’s because the song itself is a true reflection of my musical taste and when you stay true to what you like, without compromise, the authenticity in your motives trumps everything! 2. Be creatively courageous. Creative people...

  I’ve never been one to gloat BUT… If I had a nickel for every time I’ve been asked “Rob, what is the secret to Beat Juggling…” or “Yo, I’d love to get together with you and practice my beat juggles…” I’d be writing this article from inside my vast Westchester, NY estate. Specifically, inside the library quarters. On a dumb long table. Hand carved out of Macassar Ebony wood. Straight up yo! But I rarely have a nickel on the occasions I’m approached about the mystery of “Beat Juggling”. Therefore, I’m forced to write you this article from my Jackson Heights apartment. In my living, on my black leather bachelor couch. I’ll make it to Westchester one day though, ha! Aight man, back to Juggling. Battle season is right around the corner. Thus, I know many of y’all are locked in your bedrooms, training for what comes down to 6 minutes of your best stuff. Six minutes man, that’s all you got and you gotta make the most of it. So with that, the following article will impart my 10 basic pri...

This post will detail our recommendations for how beginners should work through the courses. Beginners are considered individuals who are completely new to turntables, even if they are experienced on DJ Controllers of CDJs. This pathway shows the complete journey from Basic DJing to Advanced beat juggling. Where to Start? A good place to start is by making sure you have your DJ setup connected with all the necessary equipment. If you are unsure what you need or want to double-check, please refer to our Equipment Guide. Which course should I begin with? We recommend working through the courses in this order: Basic DJing This course touches on everything you need to know to begin your DJ journey. From hand mechanics to listening and basic mixing techniques, this course will help you manually control the tools of the trade, hone in on your listening, and learn basic mixing styles. Rob Swift also gives a detailed comprehensive example tutorial on how to compose a DJ set. Basic Scratching I...

  DJ Rob Swift teaches this Advanced DJing course at the Brolic Army. Rob Swift covers techniques such as EQ mixing and incorporating loops into mixes. This course focuses on elevating DJ sets and routines and features tutorials on more complex and elevated mixing techniques, as well as ways of incorporating the three main facets of DJing (mixing, scratching and beat juggling) into your work. Other Upper Level classes include Advanced Scratching and Advanced Beat Juggling. Refer to the  courses page   for these! Advanced DJing Course Breakdown: EQ Mixing and Looping: How to camouflage transitions from one song to the next using a mixer’s equalizer. More lectures coming soon! Best suited to intermediate or advanced DJs that want to elevate their sets and routines. Advanced DJing is for students who have strong foundations in the techniques of DJing. DJing is best-learned step by step, building your skills one block at a time, taking the time to learn about each technique w...

  This learning pathway will help Advanced DJs navigate our courses and find the best learning pathway to suit their needs. We consider advanced DJs to be those with solid foundational skills in mixing, set building, fundamental scratching. Where to start? We recommend browsing over the  Basic Scratching course   to ensure that you do cover the scratching bases in terms of skills, technique and undoing any bad habits that self-taught DJs may have encountered. We assume that an advanced DJ is set on mixing by ear, dropping on beat, set arrangement and hand alignment and mechanics. What course should I begin with? 10 Root Moves of Beat Juggling This is our most popular course for intermediate and advanced DJs. This course takes you through all 10 of the root moves in details. This is the most comprehensive beat juggling guide out there. Rob explains how to manipulate drum beats, words, etc. on both left and right turntables simultaneously through the application of the 10 R...

  This learning pathway guide will help intermediate turntablists find out the best way of navigating our courses. We classify intermediate an intermediate DJ as somebody who has experience with turntables, can mix by ear, has the correct turntable fundamentals down such as mechanics, hand alignment, and can drop on beat. If you are experienced with CDJs and controllers but have no touched turntables before or are not used to using turntables, please see the  beginners learning guide . Where to start? We advise that intermediate DJs do browse over the Basic DJing course, in order to ensure that they have strong and correct fundamental skills.  See here . Most DJs overlook these fundamentals but without having these turntable instincts perfected, it will be difficult to correctly engage with the next courses. What course should I begin with? We recommend that DJs who are confident in their basic skills start with: Basic Scratching An intermediate DJ may know how to execute...